Thursday, October 26, 2006

Debacle at Motera

Team India's loss in Motera signals a few things clearly, a few things that I and few other cricket fans have been saying all along... This is not the best team India on field! Just days before I had said India Team would lose to juniors in challanger and voila...it did. No one took a notice...so even if India somehow beats Australia there are few things that need to be taken into account for serious deliberations if we wish to play the right combination for the world cup.
1) Chappel's formula's have gone haywire...we need to sack him, if not, get a guy along with him, we need a strategy coach, Mohinder Amarnath would do just fine.
2) Seriously give Rahul Dravid captaincy classes, he does too many mistakes, like he threw the ball to Ajit Agarkar in the final over when Munaf had two left in him and he was the best on show, goes to show that Dravid is not up to it. I suggest Rahul must go to Kolkata and take serious coaching from Dada.
3) The yardstick applied to oust dada needs to be enforced again, especially in case of Sehwag, he has been given a very long rope, so long that rope has ended so must Sehwag's career as a one day opener.
4) Raina was Ganguly's replacement...well Ganguly is still better choice, but Chappel lost the plot a long time ago and Dravid has been a selfish guy all along, if they have the gall & balls Raina must be booted.
5)VVS Laxman needs to be in the playing XL, team desperately needs a bat like him, he commands a place in one day side in lieu of Dravid who is there simply he is the captain, better make Tendulkar the captain for world cup and get Laxman back.
6) RP Singh, Pathan, Agarkar... none of them are fit to be in the team...when we have likes of Balaji, Zaheer around...

I guess selection people must be nuts...

Henceforth if they do not take the drastic step of changing Dravid as the captain then they should pick the following team

  1. Tendulkar
  2. Uthappa
  3. Laxman
  4. Dravid
  5. Yuvraj
  6. Kaif
  7. Dhoni
  8. Harbhajan Singh
  9. Munaf patel
  10. Zaheer Khan
  11. Balaji
  12. Gautam Gambhir
  13. Sreesanth
  14. Anil Kumble
Let me make one thing apparent for one and all, except Dravid, Uthappa & Kaif everyone else selects themselves...Mr. Dilip Vengsarkar is the guy in hot seat...however I feel like trusting the guy, Vengsarkar was the first autograph I had received of any cricketer so far, in an Irani trophy match in which he rained sixes and fours and barged into Team India soon after, we need him to reveal that very form in picking the team.

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