Hi manish,

Although I tend to agree with you most of the times, yet in my opinion Chapell is to be blamed squarely for this non-sense. He disturbed the fabric..... he left out Zaheer who in my opinion is the only equivalent of Leander Paes in our... err BCCI's team. He badly treated VVS and Saurav...Just at the end of the test matchs we wre crying for experience now we will cry youngsters. Has Sri lanka ever tried to send Jayasuriya in the middle order....the issue here is change management....he( Guru) handpicked a wrong captain who doesnt know how to marshal resources.... he doesnt know how to handle difference of opinion.. we seem to have given up all arts of fighting under him. Sri Lanka in its today's form has a lot to do with Arjuna Ranatunga and Aravinda De Silva, both overweight but extremely efficient. as far as bench goes, the problem is even youngsters are being baby-fed. On any given day, Kumble has a fighter instinct superior to the likes of Munafs.... evn on a deadly pitch I would have a kumble and not a munaf. The point is being a good fielder should be a sufficient condition but not the necessary condition for being in the team. Pakistan in th Imran days always boasted of heavy bulky players like Javed Miandad and Salim Malik and Ejaz Ahmed.... but it was such a deadly team. even Inzamam was handpicked by him...the thing is even their No. 11 batsman will think of hitting a six if given a situation and will never bother and our No. 1 batsman are unable to clear the infield during power plays. and you talk of changing pitches..... manish, you cant correct incorrigibles. the tragedy is Indians no longer have the passion.... bench strength..... its all in the zeal... look at bangladesh.... their zeal, their passion. Look at New Zealand, Australia...the tragedy is our players dont know their role....look at glen mcgrath.... if you hit him for a six, he will shrug his head as if he has realised his mistake. Whereas our bowlers will look so helpless. Even England may not be a very strong team but they have wonderful fighting ability at times. They got a 5-0 drubbing at Ashes but went on to win the trination continental Cup....the likes of Collingwoods, Pieterson, Nixons are all fighters to the core and on top of it they have Flintoff. Flintoff was also unfit but he has always been a force. Ganguly never looked so meek as does this ladla. Even his sight maks me mad nowadays. He, his Guru and his cronies are an eye-sore.... India dont need a wall India... err BCCI needs somebody who can flow......he taks up responsibility without resigning.... does acceptance means by show of words....if you accept responsibility for defeat, you should quit....but such people dont deserve honorable exits.... they have to be booted out.Th thing is Indian have forgotten to play with their hearts.... they play with their minds but ar so mindless that even their minds give up. And top of it, its the media, their advertisers who are to be blamed..... so if a swimmer from a country like Surinam which has just a one world class swimming pool can win a gold medal at Olymics.... trust you me, we dont need infrastructure for success....all we need is to learn to fight.... and this ladla and his guru has blinded all the players with hsi idiot like approach.

Regards,

vivek

All I know that a potential match between  "Team BCCI vs Pakistan" has been converted into "Ireland vs Bangladesh" match.