The demand to bring a privilege motion against Greg Chappell by our (dis)honourable MPs is foolhardy to say the least.Every person who follows the game with some degree of interest knows that India has never performed well in South Africa,the last world cup being the only exception.This is not to suggest that we should be mentally prepared to lose matches,but there should be a sense of proportion.The MPs will do well to discuss and deliberate on issues that are much more important than winning or losing in a cricket match.Instead of demanding Chappell`s head as a bounty ,why not demand accountability from BCCI.Where the crores of rupees are being spent and what is the need for Union Agriculture Minister to head the BCCI.But these questions will not provide cheap publicity to politicians and TRPs to news channels.
The argument that they are representatives of people and have a right to vent their grievances does not pass muster in this case.While criticism is and should be welcomed but making unreasonable demands and displaying mob mentality is certainly not welcome.Greg Chappell is being made a scapegoat in the whole episode but what about the players who are not performing on the field.Anyone who thinks that just by removing Chappell ,the fortunes of Indian Team will improve are living in a make believe world of cricket fantasy.
The news media as always has got the soundbytes by stoking the fire on both sides and distortion of statements.Chappell made a very innocuous statement that politicians have a job to speak and are paid for it.This was distorted by our media friends and a caption was given "MPs par bhadke Chappell" which is quite far from what he actually said.After creating the controversy out of nothing the same news media is asking questions why is there politics in cricket and cricket in politics.My question - why is there no ethics in coverage of news ?
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Yes, you are right in most of the fact you have written here. But, at one point I dont agree with you fully. I dont think Mr Chappel is being made a spacegoat. He is guilty of a few things. You are right that under him India performed quite well initially, but in sub-continents only. The moment our team landed on those fast pitches, the same old story is being repeated. He was not brought in to India to repeat the history. He was brought for changing the history.But till now, he is failing in his job. Instead, he is doing a few un-necessarry things in the name of experiment.Next feb the World Cup is starting, and he is saying experiment will continue and we will have to wait for the fruitful result till the experiment is over. But, the fact is that does he have any plan for WC 2007??..or we will have to wait till WC 2011 to see his so called fruitful results..Thats where I dont agree that he is being made spacegoat.He is too responsible partially
Hi mitu ...well i do agree with u that Chappell as coach has to take a fair share of blame for India`s below par performance in recent times.But at the end of the day its the players who need to perform to their potential on the field .... its the media basically which initially built him up as a god send gift to Indian cricket n now they r trying to run him down...i do hope that better sense will prevail over Mr.Chappell and also BCCI ...we need sporting wickets in domestic cricket and performance based incentives and accountability frm everyone including BCCI officials and selectors....
Sportingo ...thanx for ur kind words..i will be getting back to u thru email...
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