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Readers sound off on: Sachin sacked, Azhar backTopic hereFrom: Ramkin Shetty <shettyra@pssch.ps.ge.com>
It is really a sad and utterly pathetic sight that the selectors are presenting us now. I am left wondering why someone cannot simply pull the rug from
under them. Sack them all, once and for all!
From: Prashant <pgadepalli@midcom.anza.com>
You are right -- the same reason why Azhar shouldn't have been sacked after
the England tour is why Tendulkar shouldn't be sacked now.
The last thing India needs is to have a disgruntled Tendulkar (who
by the way could play for the next 10 years!!) in the
team a la Gavaskar/Kapil Dev in the 80's.
From: Makhan Seru <seru@pacbell.net>
The selectors have lost their senses.
From: Ven Hari <vhari@sun.science.wayne.edu> Removing Tendulkar from the captaincy is the worst thing that the selectors have done to Indian cricket yet. In my opinion, Azhar represents the past, he is not good enough on present form to retain a place in the team.I think that Sachin would have improved his record as captain. Records show that India under Sachin lost many matches by narrow margins, and drew matches from winning positions due to weather. Personally, I believe that India would have been better served by dropping both Azhar and Sidhu from ODI side and replacing them with Dravid and Kambli -- the rest of team being same as the one that played in the 3rd ODI at Goa against Sri Lanka.Things will change only when the fans start protesting and boycotting the games -- Satyagraha, not violence. From: Vrishab Sikand <vsikand@@BBN.COM> Just heard the selectors making a further mockery of indian cricket and themselves. Is there no way we fans can have our voices heard?? How can we let these jokers know that we are DISGUSTED with them? Please advise. From: S Kurada <skurada@ix.netcom.com> Is it possible to sack the selection committee???? Who has the power to do it? We should all start a mail-in campaign to initiate this. Might work. Who knows?! From: Sanjeevan M. Nanu <sanjeev@kuwait-fund.org>
Your reporting on giving back the captaincy to Azer (by the
pack of jokers) prompted me to write these few words. The ones who have
seen Azhar's run out and the incidents which took place
before and after that never expected him to be back in the Indian
cricket team again. By giving back the captaincy to such a person, the
selectors are questioning the sincerity and seriousness of other members
of the Indian team. How can the selectors expect Azhar to get the
respect of other team members, when his commitment to the team is
questionable? And to make things worse, they are dropping a dedicated and
focussed player like Rahul Dravid without any reason.
From: Shashidar Rajamani <rajamani@ee.tamu.edu>
The selectors have just shown that their egos are more important
than the good of the game. In spite of all public posturing, the
remark that rings in the mind is the "off the record" statement
by one of the selectors that "Sachin needs to be shown his place".
There can be no sane justification for sacking Sachin.
From: Bijoy Nair <bijoy@bestnet.com> What would it take to sack this bunch of idiots - protests, law suits.... ??? Let's do it. From: Balraj Kunnath <kunnath@concentric.net> We have been noticing the turbulence in the Indian cricket team for some time. Dont you think there should be a change in the Selection Committee rather than in the team? From: Sumit Patel <sumit@enteract.com> First of all, I would like to thank you for writing such in-depth articles on Indian cricket. Being a fan of Indian cricket, its heart breaking to see the side failing in every series without any progress being made to get on the right track. It seems like the Selection Committee is too busy making changes to the team after every loss, to sit back and rationally think about the impact of those changes. I mostly blame the selection committee for the downfall of Indian cricket, I can't why they are so interested in destroying great talents by sacking Tendulkar from the captaincy, and by sacking a great batsmen like Dravid altogether. I was wondering what step a fan like myself can take to get Indian cricket on the right track. Your input will be greatly appreciated. From: Venkat Mylavarupu <bkwwd10@bell-atl.com>
This is in reference to your article.
Let me begin by stating that I an avid reader of your columns and
respect your point of view on most matters. But I think you have gone
overboard in this article. I myself am not a fan of the selectors and
they certainly have major flaws, but it does seem that journalists like
you are on a witch hunt, to the point that they seem cynical.
From: Shyam Jodhawat <JODHI@compuserve.com> The selectors are a joke and a disgrace. The less said the better. From: Anand Ganesan <anand@phil.ae.gatech.edu >
I beg to differ from you on certain points. I feel it is totally
justified to sack Tendulkar because of the following reasons:
From: Ramnath Anand <RAMNATA@bestwestern.com> An extremely well written article. I could not make my mind up whether the selectors were a bunch of crooks or a group of idiots. From: Trim Pershad <tpershad@us.oracle.com> I think there should be a provision to sack the selectors too. This bunch of people, some of whom have never played Test cricket, are systematically destroying Indian cricket. I think no country in the world would treat the best batsman in the world so shabbily as they have treated Tendulkar. I think SRT should resign from the Indian cricket team in protest, and when there is a countrywide backlash against the selectors, they will learn a lesson. I think Ramakant Desai and his group should be sacked immediately and a more responsible group appointed. I do not know whether the Board president has such powers or not, but the selectors are behaving like autocrats. The sooner we get rid of them the better for Indian cricket. From: Udaya Bhanu <uday@khgw.info.samsung.co.kr>
It is the selectors who need to be sacked -- at once,
if we want to save the team. Forget about their ability to judge
players, they do not know how to put things correctly to the
press.
From: Narayanan Mahalingam <mnarayanan@rocketmail.com>
The whole captaincy stinks and reeks of nepotism to
the core. Well, some men are more equal than others.
This desperate hurry to install Azharuddin as a
captain defies common sense. You have a man with
hardly two years of international cricket left,
and another person with more than a decade of
potential international cricket left in him and whose
cricketing commitment far outweighs the commitment
displayed by Azharuddin in the past few series.
Editor's note: One common thread has been running through the mails we received on this, and other issues.
As a first step towards filling this need, we give below the address of BCCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur. Readers are welcome to send him mail detailing their thoughts and feelings -- hopefully, public opinion, on a large scale, will succeed where even the media finds itself helpless.
Raj Singh Dungarpur
8, Vijay Marg,
D Road, (Opposite Wankhede Stadium)
Churchgate,
Bombay - 400 020,
INDIA.
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