Do the attitudes of our Men in Blue augur well for the team?
@complexvanilla (653)
India
February 21, 2007 7:35am CST
The Indian Cricket team is a team of superstars who have supersized egos. Many of the team members behave as though they are bigger than the team. When coach Greg Chappel threatened to throw out the people who were not performing, instead of getting their acts together, they began to furtively gang up together trying to dilute the effect of the coach. Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag going to the press over the Ganguly episode are proof to this. Now there is news of Virender Sehwag's antics and lack of commitment. Do the wings of our high flying cricketing Gods need to be trimmed in order to get them to put the team before themselves?
2 responses
@a_manick (879)
• India
22 Feb 07
I think the cricketers are OK. When you are popular and have the ability, you feel a bit elated. Thats all right.
I think the problem lies with the Indian cricket board. A private e-mail, where the coach is giving feedback about a player, should not be leaked to the press as it happened in Sourav's case. Ganguly's case would be more cordial if not for the Board's intrusion. Even Ganguly understood this at one stage and stayed away from the Board politics.
Now, discussion sbout Sehwag in a closed-door meeting seems to be leaking out.
Cricketers are there to perform. The Board is there to discipline them. The coach is there to guide them. If everybody understands their functions, then there is no problem.
@desmuduruu (14)
• India
21 Feb 07
yaa its better to leave out the politics in our indiancricket team,,right from selecting a member in to the team ,the partiality feeling and locality comes in to existence ...most of the indian cricketers are came in thru these kind,,except sachin tendulkar,,even ganguly,harbhajan,sehwag are under ths ,,!
