GO TO HELL CHAPPEL
This man should be fired. The Indian cricket team's Australian coach Greg Chappell gave the finger to cricket fans in my home town, Calcutta (Kolkata). This after the team lost an international one-day match! How arrogant can a man get? He should have been ashamed of his team's performance; instead, he insulted the fans!
Granted there's no love lost between him and Calcutta, where many fans have been upset since he dropped local idol Sourav Ganguly from the team. The police advised the Aussie to stay in his hotel room for his own safety. Instead, he showed the finger!
A newspaper showed a finger thrust out of a window of the team bus, saying it was Chappell's.
But he claimed he was just nursing an injured finger, not sticking it out at anyone. Ha! Why stick an injured finger out of the window? Did it need some fresh air?
The incident was thoroughly in keeping with the character of the man. Chappell was a great cricketer in his day, but he and his brother, Ian, were also known for their mean tactics and aggressive behaviour.
He has a contract to coach the Indian team till 2007. But he should be sacked immediately. Indian cricket officials can surely afford to pay him off since they earn so much money from television and match ticket sales; cricket is the most popular sport in India.
India have not done well under Chappell's coaching. They lost shamefully against South Africa in Calcutta on Friday. The final score -- India 188 all out vs South Africa 189 for no loss -- said it all: India were completely outplayed.
But the Aussie's not the only one who should be sent off.
The great Sachin Tendulkar should also be dropped temporarily as a warning that he cannot take his place for granted. He scored only two runs in what was his 357th match, a world record. No one has played more than him and all he scores is two!
Of course, he can do better than that. If he does not get a big score in the next match, he will do so in the one after that. After all, he is one of the world's greatest cricketers. But he has been keeping indifferent health and unpredictable form. It's time he is dropped occasionally to try out other players. As it is, he plays only when he feels up to it, when his health permits. Why not let the Indian selectors decide when to play him rather than leaving the decision to him?
My son, like legions of Sachin fans, will insist Sachin is indispensable.
But the Aussie's time has come.
PS: India's current captain, Rahul Dravid, also proved a dead loss as a leader and a batsman, scoring only six. Maybe it's time to bring back Ganguly? Surely, if Sachin can stay on despite such unpredictable form, why not bring back the Calcutta boy who was the most successful Indian captain ever?
posted by arghyaz @ 7:16 PM
1 Comments:
Some how I feel that you are not concerned about whether India wins or looses but only adamant on bringing Ganguly back in the ODI team. And it is very much possible that your post typifies the view of majority of folks in that part of India. I really fail to understand the reason behind such provincial chauvinism prevalent there.
To just brush up your memory, India has won 7 of their last 10 ODI's under chappell and Dravid. And just one lost match at Kolkata has made you scamper for Dravid's head. Even before the Kolkata ODI there was widespread boycott of the match by prominent ministers and celebrities. Banner's outside Eden garden reading 'No Ganguly No Match', sluggish sales of tickets before the announcement of Ganguly being included in the Test team and never before seen hostility for Indian Team in the ground (the shameful standing applause after Dravid got out). Even the pitch seemed to have been prepared for a desired result. Did you guys ever thought what irreparable damage these acts of yours could inflict on the spirit of game we all love and revere so earnestly.
Coming to Chappell's point, I myself treat the rectification offered by team manger on Chappell's gesture as absurd and ridicules. People are not that foolish as to not understand that much publicized gesticulation. But don't underestimate the provocation from the angry mob. One of the greatest batsmen of his era, he was appointed by BCCI to coach Indian team in ruins. Considering the abysmal depth to which Indian team had plummeted, It was but natural for Ganguly to go from the ODI side. His new tactics and strategies have brought tremendous flexibility in the team.
Almost every player is performing and Indians almost whitewashed the No. 2 Sri Lankan team with best ever dominating performance. And just see what gratitude Chappell receives from the Kolkata people. He risks being killed if he comes out of his hotel, deluge of anti Chappell banners in and outside the ground, people like you asking him to 'GO TO HELL'. And all this for what? For advising Ganguly to prove his form before he can be the part of the team. May be Suhel Seth is right pointing to the identity crisis of Kolkata.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1556040,0035.htm
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