should India sack all the players and the coach of Indian Cricket Team?
912695
It is the BCCI which is responsible for this state of affairs. It is not an abrupt happening. It is the culmination of the wrong doings of the BCCI and its committe (the selection). What the coach has to do. You have no fast tracks in the country. You prepare only slow flat pitches wherein people score a lot of runs without much ado. \n\nGood players were not selected by More (Most biased selector) and Vengesarkar is in the same boat. How the team would perform?\n\nWhy the Australians perform consistently on any type of surface, against any country and in any country? The simple reason is that they have all type of surfaces to practice on. They are masters in the pull shot which is the only shot (except hook) you can play against rising deliveries. Indian batsmen do not play that shot and when someone tries, he is caught at short mid wicket or square leg. See how Dravid perishs at short mid-wicket and Tendulkar perished at square leg. Each and every player of Australia is very good at the pull shot, Hayden, Langer, Ponting, Gilchrist, Martyn, Symonds, Clarke, Hussey, etc. Any player! Besides that Australian players are taller than Indian batsmen and are at an advantage.\nWhy Yuvraj and Laxman are successful against fast bowlers and on bouncy foreign pitches? Because they are tall and are good at pull shots.\n\nMy only contention is that BCCI should intervene and take decisions:\n\n1. Prepare fast and bouncy pitches (Seek the help of foreign curators from Australia or South Africa)\n2. Select Batsmen only on merit who have all the shots in his armoury\n3. Forget zone-bias\n4. Disallow all the team members in shooting for adds before any series (1 month period)\n5. Check for fitness level of all players throughout the year and the Physician should prepare guidelines for each and every player to follow\n6. Prepare a team of experts (Former players, coaches with defined responsibility) who would exclusively monitor the technique of the batsmen and bowlers and analyse, improve the flaws. \n7. Select promising youngesters from all parts of the country and provide them coaching and other amenities to develop (Do not trust academies like that of More)\n\nThis is my exhaustive analysis. I believe in preventive action and not in correction. BCCI is only doing "post mortem" which becomes useless.\n\nI am deeply hurt that players like Sehwag, Tendulkar and Dravid are playing like school boys and getting frustrated. A cricket player and fan to core like me, no longer watches Indian matches. \n\nNow in the present situation, with World cup round the corner, BCCI should select atleast three players for the world cup: Gautum Gambhir, VVS Laxman and Saurav Ganguly.\n\nMind it the selection of Captain should be reviewed. The way Dravid let the opportunity slip even when SA were 76/6, tells the story that he is strategically poor and not able to make decisions. Let him be happy with his batting and only batting.
983721
ALL THE BATSMEN ARE OUT FORM. WHENEVER THERE IS CAPTAIN APPOINTED WITH THE CONTROVERSY THE TEAM HAS  NOT PERFORMED WELL.
612037
Yes .They will learn a lesson from this defeat and they will perform well in the upcomming series as well as the world cup.I wish them to do so.And the loss of the little master Sachin Tendulkar is a great loss to the indians also.so if he eturn soon the indian cricket team will get a relief.
1073131
ganguly had some difference with other players of the team....\nand also used to talk behind-the-back......\nand was creating rifts.....\nthe coach was there just for sake of being there....\nhe was playing bad games....\nnot leading properly....no strategy.....\ncriticising for bad performances.....\n\ndravid was in a tiff n under lot of pressure.....\nchapell and dravid have done it....for india.....\nmore than anyone else could have done....\nganguly should go take a hike........\nbloody politician.....
60573
No. India is missing one spinner. This pitch is turning as a spin wicket in last days. So it was not a wise decision
953539
One can't pin the blame only on Dravid's captaincy. Its a collective irresponsibility. What about the selectors? Why is Sachin in the team...for his current form or for the past records? Why is Shehwag in the team? What is Kaif doing? What role is Pathan's? \nThe much hyped coach also seems to be clueless. Experimenting has reached comic to hopeless proportions. The amount of aggression the coach shows in front of the camera seems to be missing in what he coaches...\nAs far as the players are concerned...no one seems to be in form except an occasional flash in the pan!\nOne billion people, and tons of money with BCCI. Youth hungry for livelihood and career. Can't the BCCI start a grass-root development program and start identifying talent. Cant BCCI make bouncy pitches exclusively for practise ahead of SA/NZ tours?\nAny discussion about cricket has become an intellectual masturbation in the country!!!!
1028658
I absolutely agree with you. Ganguly should be on the team if Sehwag is. I guess there are a lot of politics in the dressing room that we don't know about.
833848
u are absolutely right dravid loose the agressive approach to the game that sourav had and i think he should be made captain again and let the captain lead the team rather than the coach leading
689910
Yeah should be back as the captain of Indian veterans Cricket Team.\nMay be he'll not find a place there too.\nSomone was saying that Dravid can't handle pressure and want to see him when india is down 3-2.\nWhat about the best ever captain???\nHow many final matches we had won under him????\nWe had made the record of loosing most consecutive finals.
942376
Nooooooooo!!!!absolutely not.As it is the Team has a low morale and to top it with this guy,it will be suicidal.A man is known by his actions.If he (Azhar)could desert his wife and kids for the ponds girl and bore no guilty conscience about it,if he betrayed his team and country for a mere bag of money don't you think he is capable of repeating it again??????Point to be noted.He is forgiven and frogotten but, ther's a BIG BUT--- we should opt for  "once bitten twice careful" option with the likes of Azhar.He's better off with Bijlani than with Team India!!!!!!
746364
These idiots have always played like this in South Africa. You can't blame Greg. Anyway, how can a coach make a player unlearn how to bat. Don't they have any sense of their own.\n\nTo answer your question, Chappel should step down. There is no point trying to coach these buggers. They shouldn't be sent to the WC either.
832943
Not at this moment as his form is not good enough. He scored only 6 today and that’s not the best of him. But he is capable and need quality time to be in the groove again. On the other part he is a born leader, as I had known him closely when I was a junior in our college St.Xaviers and I can assure you all that he will be back, but not now, not at least as a makeshift replacement. \nBut I agree with you that his sheer presence is needed if India has to have a chance to de something in the World Cup. \n\nA talented (you cannot deny that) mean person who cares only about him and nothing else heads this present team. Remember our present captain was not even considered to be agile enough (He was the Mr. Go Slow for all the other teams) to be a part of the national team in the ODI's. It was Ganguli who came up with the idea to play him as a wicket-keeping batsman, just to accommodate him in the team. He knew that there was talent and it was just quality time that was needed at that point of time. That’s captaincy, that’s friendship and that’s team spirit. And what was the return that he got in his difficult times, from the person whom he defended so vigorously? The sheer prospect of getting the captains band revealed his true character and he stabbed Ganguli from the back at the first opportunity he got. He and his coach together with some of the selectors then tactfully slaughtered Jaheer, Nehra, Balaji, Laxman, kumble for no reason at all. (You can add Irfan, Yuvraj and Harbhajan in this list as they are the next) They destroyed the team, they destroyed the spirit, and they destroyed the passion that we had after a long long time. We will never again see an Indian arrogant enough to wave his shirt from a balcony at the heart of London, nor we will ever see the wonderful moments that we all had during the amazing run that we had during his tenure. Everything is lost and it will never come back again. There are broken hearts everywhere and it can never be mended. Viva the Captain, Viva the coach; you are successful enough to push us back to the stone ages. \n  \nFor someone’s sources in the forum – We are not dirty niggers and we do not care if you hate us all at Lancashire as long as we have the courage to defend our Motherland. This is what happened in actual and trust me more people will be proud to be associated with such person who can do that at point blank and end up hated rather than submitting pride for our nation before foreigners to be loved.
940153
No.\n\nI think the England team has too many faults:-\n1. Team manager past his sell-by date, and has stuck to favourite players rather than moving on to the future.\n2. Wrong captain. It should be Andrew Strauss. Flintoff was ridiculoudly over-hypped after the Ashes win. there is no way he is in the same class as Botham. When will Flintoff ever take 34-8 and make a century, or score a century in each innings and take five wickets twice? Flintoff's good, but not that good. And he suffers from Botham's problem that when example has run out he is a very limited captain.\n3. Second best keeper. It is not as thopugh Geraint Jones even deleivers consistentely as a batsman. A better keeper would imporve the bowler's confidence.\n4. Wrong fast bowlers. The problem is not Harmison: good captaincy could motivate him. It is the other fast bowlers who are  better suited to English pitches.\n5. Wrong spinner. Panesar is an attacking spinner, so he is the one to play. It is negative to be scared that he may get hit for sixes on an off day.\n\nEngland should do what they can now to get the best results, and at least win one test. But they will also need to think what to do in the longer term in relation to better management and bringing on new palyers. Not least, they have lost several players like Vaughan and Jones to career threatening injuries that need to be addressed by better management of playing demands and training regimes so that the same does not happen with future players.\n\nFinally, it was the Ashes win in England that was the aberration. The standard of Englsih cricket at international level, particularly in one-day events, has been dire for years.
98312
Yes its the problem of team management. It already over casted the probelm of bad light. So if the players were informed about the D/L laws, India could win, like not being all out, giving lesser run rates etc. If Chappel dont know these countings, he should be fired. He is always assisted with a statistician. He should be aware and plan the game accordingly. If india lost the game in counting of figures, chappel should b blamed.
373048
Yes he should be out. Let me tell you, it's not about 6-7 matches. He has scored just 3 fifties in last 35 innings. I can't imagine any player resting on past laurels for that long. Even Ganguly's recent record is better than him. The selectors need to be consistent. Sehwag is by far the most overrated cricketer ever.
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You don't want to blame the players for their performances and you want Greg Chappell to continue as the coach. Then, between the two, who should be blamed for India's recent poor performances? Not Sourav Ganguly, I hope.\nExperimentation is OK when you have 22 players who are close to each other in their performing abilities. India can just about manage 6 to 7 at the most, who are certain and consistent performers. So what's the logic behind Chappell's chop and change? Why should consistent performers in a particular slot make way for others, when the replacement's performance is unsure? With World Cup, 2007 round the corner, isn't it time we had a set team in place, raring to go? \nAnd whatever happened to motivation? Both coach and skipper seem to compete with each other to lift the trophy for the most uninspiring leader. And on top of that, contrary to the much touted belief that Chappell has a shrewd cricketing sense, he is in reality a shrewd politician who has optimally utilised BCCI politics and infighting to his advantage. He knows that he can continue as long as he stays on the right side of the powers that be. That and not performance is the topmost concern of the self serving Chappell. \nAnd it has come to light that a lot of players, specially youngsters and new comers are scared stiff of Chappell. They can't speak their mind freely for fear of retribution (being axed at the behest of Chappell). Chappell's flair for vengeance has already been well established. So much for confidence building. \nTeam India (rechristened Team Chappell) continues to demand flat, dead tracks as a precondition for good performances and a victory. On a green and bouncy top, their performance is pitiable. And offered a wicket of their choice at Mohali in the just concluded Champions Trophy, they dished out a pathetic performance and lost to Australia. So what essential difference has Chappell brought about, which did not exist in the era of John Wright? Why should BCCI fork out an extraordinary amount of money to a non performing coach? Just to keep him in good humour? Or for some flashy, headline grabbing sideshows like training with Indian Army personnel? Even our Jawans must be ashamed at their association with a training programme, which brought about such dismal performances from the team.\nYet you contend that Chappel should stay on. A pricey coach must deliver or be shown the door. Yes, Chappell should stay, only till the date when his contract with BCCI ends.\nI'm sorry, being unable to furnish a single point in favour of Chappell, even for the benefit of a self confessed cricket lover as yourself.
700175
i think he has a full planed strategy to let team india down; first he throwed dada (saurav ganguly) out of the team and destroyed its unity and there after his illogical  experiments.\nonly god can help team india.\nhe should be thrown out of the team management