ENDULKAR?

It is not endulkar.... it's just the way we treat our heros who are celebrated by rest of the world. Has Sanjay Manjrekar made it to the times cover? Has Ravi Shastri made it to the times cover? Sharad Pawar has goofed it, believe me it will not be long before when selectors fall on Tendulkar's feet pleading him to join back the national side.

Let me ask the selectors, when Tendulkar was selected it was asked by many that he is too young, and a famous quote was made 'if you are good enough, you are old enough'.

In today's context the quote holds true in reverse, if Tendlkar is good enough, he is young enough!

Is Mongia better than Tendulkar? Or at thirty he is young enough?

Dravid is a greedy guy, clinging to captainship by dropping competetion!

Well it's simply not cricket.

Killing The Golden Goose

Its the players that bring in the fans, it's the Indian cricket players that have made Indian cricket what it is, and board rakes in all the moolah due to them. BCCI is doing it's best to kill the cricketers and the sport in India. This is to be expected when politicians rule cricket India as their feifdom. BCCI wants Indian cricket team to emulate Australians, however the Board itself is not even trying to run cricket intelligently. They brought in Chappell, who destroyed the basic fabric of Team India's unity and see what happened. By denying endorsements to players board is making cricket a less motivating factor for the players. Fans come to see Tendulkar or a Ganguly, they come to watch Sehwag. So if board gets Uthhapa or Gambhir, the fans will not reach stadium gates. The sponsorships that board is receivng will diminish. Let's face it, the truth is that in a icon deprived country like India, our cricketers are greatest living Icons and stars, and much more, they are our heros. By denying their due money, BCCI is being foolhardy. Their retention of Dravid as captain also reeks of insanity. You can leaf through the archives of this blog and see that Dravid was never high in my esteem. He hates his seniors, and like a jealous cow he is out to hurt them below the belt by denyingTendulkar the money he deserves. Less said about Ravi Shastri the better, well he was agent of Tendulkar and earned crores in commission, now that Tendulkar didn't avail of Shastri's services when the time came for renewal of Tendulkar's contract, Shastri was peeved. He has become cricket manager with one point agenda, to finish Tendulkar to avenge his loss of crores in agents fee... come to hink of it, BCCI was claiming that do not want to negotiate with Agents on endorsements issue, while making another agent a full time cricket manager! If I had the money i would have gone ahead and created a better system, maybe a new control board, Subhash Goel has thoughtof it, god bless his venture.

Mr. Chappell calls Indians Mafia

Indian cricketers are 'Mafia'. This is what Greg Chappell wants us to believe. Chappell sounds like a sore loser who blames everyone else except himself.

To be honest if you will go to the archives of this blog you will find all what Chappell was upto was wrong. Chappell tinkered with the careers of proven performers which lead to disastorous performance of India, he needs to be kicked hard in the butt and barred from a cricket pitch where India are playing.

What He did to Sourav is open now, that he kicked Zaheer and he too came back strong is there for all to see, he finished the one day career of Kumble, he turned Harbhajan into a shadow of himself with a damocles sword hanging on him all the time. Ashish Nehra was given the boot and I am sure one day he will be bac strongly too. Chappell had said ' Sehwag is a special challange of my coaching tenure, and see what he did to him, Sehwag the champion looks a rookie these days. Pathan another champion is left mentally confused and forgotten the basics. The icing on Chappels cake is the downward slide of Tendulkar, the master whose batting order has been tinkered. Then look at Raina's, Kaif's...whatever Chappell may say today about them, the fact is they underperformed under Chappell.

No coach has ever so successfully destroyed a flourishing team ever before. Now he calls Indian cricketers 'MAFIA'.

I guess we Indians take comments from white skinned persons lightly, BCCI must smack Chappell hard for this comment.

Chappell is a crazy autocratic delusioned human. He is better in a butcher shop than butchering Indian cricket further.

Dravid is equally guilty of having no mind of his own and following Chappell like a lost child. Dravid doesn't deserve captainship of India.

I have full faith in Col. Vengsarkar, he will do what is right. Chappell soon will be on a return flight.