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[tushar sehgal]

why is my name showing up as tushbottomhgal when someone quotes my post?? hahaha gotta love the filters

[langer17]

why is my name showing up as tushbottomhgal when someone quotes my post?? hahaha gotta love the filters

Just had to test that, haha

[tushar sehgal]

Just had to test that, haha

oh lord!! i am about to become the most quoted person on here ...i wonder if you loose percentage points just to quote my post

[Cover_Drive]

(No Racism Please)stan

Does the word (No Racism Please)stan get automatically censored for being racist?

I wonder how our (No Racism Please)stani friends here feel about their national self identification being treated like a common swear word?

Zindebad (No Racism Please)stan!

 

Just testing...(No Racism Please)stan..

Edit: Thats wired admins....

[shoab68]

Sehwag is immensely gifted player and a real match winner. Lot of criticism about his technique, no foot movement etc? Without any technique his top 3 scores in test cricket are 319, 309 and 293 test avg 50 plus with a strike rate of over 80. Holds the record of fastest triple century (300 off only 278 balls). He is also holding the record of highest ODI score, 219 off 149 balls. Come on guys, what else you expect from this humble guy (not arrogant like other Indian players, kohli etc). My favorite batsman!! love to watch his batting.

[charlie15]

Sehwag is immensely gifted player and a real match winner. Lot of criticism about his technique, no foot movement etc? Without any technique his top 3 scores in test cricket are 319, 309 and 293 test avg 50 plus with a strike rate of over 80. Holds the record of fastest triple century (300 off only 278 balls). He is also holding the record of highest ODI score, 219 off 149 balls. Come on guys, what else you expect from this humble guy (not arrogant like other Indian players, kohli etc). My favorite batsman!! love to watch his batting.

Welcome to the forum mate, yes his past record is something else and he is a phenomenal batsman when he wants to be, but therein lies the crux of the problem, you only need to look at his last few internationals he's scored one ton and all the other scores are under 50. Aside from that ton you then have to go back to 2010 for his last test century (against New Zealand) and his last ODI century was in 2011 against The Windies in India.  Look at his behaviour in the slips during the series against England, he looked bored and disinterested (which in my eyes if you're representing your country smacks of arrogance), either he needs a long rest or decide if his priorities are now just to play the shorter formats of the game.

As I said in one of my earlier posts I have nothing against Indian cricket in general, but what I don't agree with is a team getting whitewashed and then saying wait until you come to India!

[shoab68]

I am with you charlie. Last couple of years his performance not up to mark but surely he will sort out his problems and will perform to his potential in 2013.

[Over Gully]

As an Indian fan...this article is brutally correct, and Charlie you're right that it seems all of our team needs to work harder and be brought down to Earth. However I despise Greg Chappell for almost ruining our squad not that many years ago.

With the huge talent pool we should be winning far more than we are in recent times, especially at home. I hope the selectors get their acts together and give opportunities to youngsters, so they can keep the regulars on their toes.

A guy at my cricket club met Greg Chappell at a coaches conference in Adelaide and he asked him about his tenure as Indian coach. GC tried to adopt more of an Australian way of training in terms of a greater emphasis on physical fitness, fielding, running between the wickets, eating properly, etc, etc. This was met by a great deal of reluctance by the more established players in the team, principally Ganguly, Sehwag, Laxman, Tendulkar. I think the only one of the guns who did take note was Rahul Dravid. Being an outsider made it difficult for GC to try and implement his methods on a group who were happy to just rely on their natural talent and not work properly on their games to improve as a unit. One thing he said was that India were not a team, in fact just 11 individuals who cared more about themselves and their own averages, etc.

[i12breakfree]

A guy at my cricket club met Greg Chappell at a coaches conference in Adelaide and he asked him about his tenure as Indian coach. GC tried to adopt more of an Australian way of training in terms of a greater emphasis on physical fitness, fielding, running between the wickets, eating properly, etc, etc. This was met by a great deal of reluctance by the more established players in the team, principally Ganguly, Sehwag, Laxman, Tendulkar. I think the only one of the guns who did take note was Rahul Dravid. Being an outsider made it difficult for GC to try and implement his methods on a group who were happy to just rely on their natural talent and not work properly on their games to improve as a unit. One thing he said was that India were not a team, in fact just 11 individuals who cared more about themselves and their own averages, etc.

The problem with Greg Chappell was more of clash of ego.
Indian team has worked mainly with foreign coaches and i am sure all of them  emphasized on physical fitness, fielding, running between the wickets, eating properly etc. Indian team had a superb run with Gary Kirtsen.
I think Greg Chappel was never a right fit for the team. Till day he keeps on making writing all these articles with negative comments about the team.
Greg chappel has to blame to some extent for indian team's debacle of 2007 world cup. It did work out as a blessing in disguise as there some major changes done in the team after that event.
A coach is also responsible to keep the team together as a group and Greg Chappel failed in that.