…for we have had enough.

With the worst possible performance in the Cricket World Cup,
the much hyped Team India has been sent back home before the second phase.

BCCI’s Vision 2007 suddenly turned cloudy.
Mr Sharad Pawar will not like this. He will have to find a scape goat.

These three different reports came out on the same day.

‘Chappell wanted us to bat first’

NEW DELHI, April 2:
On the report appearing in TOI on Monday that senior players had overruled Chappell and chose to bat first against Bangladesh, a senior player said:
“It was the players who wanted to field first but Chappell was against that decision. He wanted us to bat first and get some runs on the board.
When the team failed to come good with the bat, he started blaming everyone in the team.”

“From the beginning of the tour, Chappell kept leaking sensitive dressing room talk to the media despite several requests from the team not to do so. But he was not bothered. When we lost the Bangladesh match, he was reluctant to take the responsibility in the team meetings. Gradually, we started developing a mental distance with the coach,” the player complained.

Another key member of the team who didn’t wish to named also complained about Chappell leaking information to the media. “It is designed to deflect all blame from him,” he said.

“It’s really very difficult to play if Chappell continues to be our coach. He is not the best guy for the team. He has got fixed ideas about everything and is not at all flexible. And if anyone differs, he will not take it as an honest difference of opinion, but will hold it against him.”

How many leaks has he made from the dressing room.
How many of these were to the media.
How many of these could have been to bookies?
What odds were the bookies giving for India to (take the unexpected decision) to bat first?

Sources say recalled players targeted Greg

BANGALORE, April 2:
The rift within Team India seems to be getting wider. It appears this rift has got magnified over the role of coach Greg Chappell. Did the return of Ganguly and Zaheer create this division in the ranks, and did they target Chappell and create factionalism in a game of one-upmanship to get back at the coach?

Certain members of the team claim that this is, indeed, what happened and was one of the main reasons for India’s early demise. If people spoke about the “divide” in hushed tones until recently, it is now being trumpeted louder in the corridors of cricket power, bringing out the schisms within the team.

Sources claimed that Ganguly, Sehwag, Harbhajan, Zaheer and Yuvraj were united in their ‘venture’ to undermine Chappell. Dravid, getting little support, went along with the popular opinion and ignored Chappell’s directive to bowl first against Bangladesh, a decision for which the team paid a heavy price.

……Chappell is expected to give a scathing report, which is to be selectively disclosed to the seven-member expert panel invited by the Board, about certain players.

The question is, why didn’t Chappell inform Board members about the goings-on within the team? And if he did, then why do the Board take action? Or is it a case of passing the buck, as some senior players claim?

The sure shot “Chappell’s Way” to remove players HE does not like.
By cooking up allegations of rifts and causing divisions in the team.
Getting brother Ian to criticise Sachin Tendulkar.
Was that another SMS that he sent to his brother?

We have seen it all twenty months ago. Does he really expect us to fall for it again.
Perhaps we will.

Dravid was under pressure from the ‘mafia’: Reports

NEW DELHI, April 2:
Beleaguered Indian captain Rahul Dravid is under pressure from the senior players who are operating like a mafia, according to a private TV channel.

Quoting unnamed sources, the TV channel said the senior players in the team were operating like a mafia and coach Greg Chappell had expressed his anger with the player’s mafia. The sources were quoted as saying that the senior players “hammer and abuse” juniors and don’t give them a “chance”.

They said that Chappell was not averse to staying on as the coach provided the same sets of players were not retained. The growing rift between some players in the team has been widely reported in a section of the media in the recent past. After India’s disastrous first round exit from the World Cup last month, there have been several reports of the players being divided into camps and not acting like a team.

According to PTI , Chappell had denied having had any communication with the BCCI in connection with the attitude of senior players. A media report had earlier claimed that five senior players had not shown respect to the team management and had attitude problems.

Of course, Greg Chappell will not be averse to stay on, who will employ this megalomaniac coward, who will point the finger of failure at everyone else except himself ?
Even Australia does not want him.

BCCI has to find a scape goat for this horrid performance.
There are two jobs at risk.
Greg Chappell as coach. Rahul Dravid from his captaincy.
To save their jobs they will have to blame the other players.

Chappell is handing on a plate to BCCI some names to be made the scapegoat .
It is a case of Chappell and Dravid against the other senior players.
Chappell will blame the other players. Dravid will go along with it.
They will have to rely on each other for their survival.

They will pull it off.
We still have enough sycophantic, subservient Chappell supporters, who will save his backside
and even more sub-intelligent life forms that may be praying for Dravid to stay as captain.
Chappell and Dravid will soon be back to what they can do best, destroy the Indian team.

I as an Indian supporters have had enough of this.
RIP Indian cricket. You have suffered enough.
I will not miss you anymore, when you are gone.