12-01-2006, 10:57 PM
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If Dravid is the man in charge why doesn't he assert himself. I dont see Dravid really has any clue about these things, nor can he explain them. I'm sure if it was the old Ganguly, then he would have wrangled to get his side in, then he would stand by it and die by it, he would have fought to get a few practice matches in, who knows he would have influenced the pitch makers in South Africa to be kind to the Indians (you know during the series in Pakistan and Australia, you heard the incredulous voices of the Paki and Aussie commentators as to why pitches suiting the Indians were made), in short everything that is required to win. You can always complain of biased selection policies, lack of good pitches at home, messed up domestic set up, and that in the long term all these needs to change and improve, [b]but in the short term you got to win</b>. And how to get that done is mainly the captain's job. H has to figure it out how to do it. Tomorrow Dravid cannot say that I selected a particular team because Chappel wanted it so. We don't want to wait for another two years, when Dravid+Chappel get India to win matches, their experiments start working, we want them to win now, for we watch each and every match of India, expecting them to win.
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Perhaps the following taken from an article succinctly explains in the best manner the point I was trying to make thru my long winded sentences
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Oldies_retur...show/660346.cms
"Frankly, the team seems obsessed with theory and assumption. <b>Instead of working with the best material available, it outlined the contours of a good and successful team, and went out looking for players who could fulfil those roles.</b> In a land of excesses but very little talent, it wasn't the right approach. Some time in the future, most probably, the same players may well return stronger, abler and ready to take on any opposition, on any wicket. <b>But in a less than ideal world, you have to prepare for the immediate present, and plot instant victories first."</b>
In short they said we want nothing less than Maryada Purushottam Ram and went about the world looking for such a person.
This is the sort of problem that happens when for e.g. somebody educated in the best B Schools struggle with the realities of business. They realise that their theories doesn't meet with the realities. That coping up with the realities means making so much ever subtly smart adjustments which you are not taught in your academic course. But Chappel has been a great cricketer and captain, Dravid has been a successful and consistently performing player for 10 years. He has been an able vice captain in the resurgence of Indian cricket post match fixing scenario. We expected both of them to do far better than this. Where have they lost their thinking hats ???
If Dravid is the man in charge why doesn't he assert himself. I dont see Dravid really has any clue about these things, nor can he explain them. I'm sure if it was the old Ganguly, then he would have wrangled to get his side in, then he would stand by it and die by it, he would have fought to get a few practice matches in, who knows he would have influenced the pitch makers in South Africa to be kind to the Indians (you know during the series in Pakistan and Australia, you heard the incredulous voices of the Paki and Aussie commentators as to why pitches suiting the Indians were made), in short everything that is required to win. You can always complain of biased selection policies, lack of good pitches at home, messed up domestic set up, and that in the long term all these needs to change and improve, [b]but in the short term you got to win</b>. And how to get that done is mainly the captain's job. H has to figure it out how to do it. Tomorrow Dravid cannot say that I selected a particular team because Chappel wanted it so. We don't want to wait for another two years, when Dravid+Chappel get India to win matches, their experiments start working, we want them to win now, for we watch each and every match of India, expecting them to win.
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Perhaps the following taken from an article succinctly explains in the best manner the point I was trying to make thru my long winded sentences
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Oldies_retur...show/660346.cms
"Frankly, the team seems obsessed with theory and assumption. <b>Instead of working with the best material available, it outlined the contours of a good and successful team, and went out looking for players who could fulfil those roles.</b> In a land of excesses but very little talent, it wasn't the right approach. Some time in the future, most probably, the same players may well return stronger, abler and ready to take on any opposition, on any wicket. <b>But in a less than ideal world, you have to prepare for the immediate present, and plot instant victories first."</b>
In short they said we want nothing less than Maryada Purushottam Ram and went about the world looking for such a person.
This is the sort of problem that happens when for e.g. somebody educated in the best B Schools struggle with the realities of business. They realise that their theories doesn't meet with the realities. That coping up with the realities means making so much ever subtly smart adjustments which you are not taught in your academic course. But Chappel has been a great cricketer and captain, Dravid has been a successful and consistently performing player for 10 years. He has been an able vice captain in the resurgence of Indian cricket post match fixing scenario. We expected both of them to do far better than this. Where have they lost their thinking hats ???