BeautifulGame Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Going by Team India coach Ravi Shastri’s response to a query in an interview with The Times of India (TOI) correspondent at Johannesburg on January 22, Indian cricket appears to have regressed from a “disjointed” apathetic state to a “disjointed” pathetic level. Asked whether going to South Africa earlier would have helped the team prepare better (and presumably avoid the four batting collapses which saw India handing over victory on a plate to the hosts in the first two Tests at Cape Town and Centurion), the world’s highest-paid cricket coach said, “There was a thought (to send the Test specialists) but then you are disjointed. Even as a team you are disjointed. Who is going to handle things here? These thoughts can be put out in hindsight. But, in hindsight, I would say the best thing would be to reach there two weeks earlier.” Shastri’s response betrays a deplorable and “disjointed” lack of both hindsight and foresight. There is nothing unusual in Team India sending the team early or the Test specialists in advance for tough tours like the one of South Africa. And this applies to not just the senior national team but the junior one. Even for the ongoing under-19 World Cup in New Zealand, the BCCI accepted the coach Rahul Dravid’s request for sending the team early so as to give the players time to get used to the unfamiliar Kiwi conditions. This time also, according to media reports, the BCCI did offer to send specialist Test players and the core of the team to South Africa even while the others played the meaningless December ODI series against Sri Lanka. These media reports add that the team management (essentially meaning the captain and coach) declined the BCCI’s offer. https://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/andwordsisallihave/why-does-the-worlds-highest-paid-cricket-coach-sound-so-pathetic/ Jimmy Cliff, tweaker and velu 3 Link to comment
chewy Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 In one way I sympathise with Shastri, he is probably the butt of jokes amongst coaching staff around the world he didn’t have any acumen in commentary, god knows what pearls of wisdom he hands out during training especially to International cricketers anyway he is the last one laughing to the bank sensible-indian 1 Link to comment
express bowling Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 4 hours ago, BeautifulGame said: , the world’s highest-paid cricket coach said, “There was a thought (to send the Test specialists) but then you are disjointed. Even as a team you are disjointed. Who is going to handle things here? What does these sentences mean ? Seriously, I don't get it ! I thought the coach was there to handle things. Link to comment
velu Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 shastris job adi B, sensible-indian, tweaker and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Rasgulla Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Doubt even anushka looks at kohli that way.. Cheerleader is looking at him tweaker, beetle, Jimmy Cliff and 2 others 5 Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 30 minutes ago, express bowling said: What does these sentences mean ? Seriously, I don't get it ! I thought the coach was there to handle things. I guess what he meant was the lack of avl of coaching staff there. Even if that was the issue their are enough coaches in India that cud have been send just to handle things. Lalchand rajput, pravin amre, zaheer khan , laxman BCCI has enough money to hire service of gary kirsten for 2 weeks Link to comment
express bowling Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said: I guess what he meant was the lack of avl of coaching staff there. Even if that was the issue their are enough coaches in India that cud have been send just to handle things. Lalchand rajput, pravin amre, zaheer khan , laxman BCCI has enough money to hire service of gary kirsten for 2 weeks BCCI needed to send Shastri along with the test specialists, despite the T20 series. Link to comment
rageaddict Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Too much dostana between Coach and Kaptaan, more reason to hate fags. Link to comment
Tattieboy Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 20 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said: I guess what he meant was the lack of avl of coaching staff there. Even if that was the issue their are enough coaches in India that cud have been send just to handle things. Lalchand rajput, pravin amre, zaheer khan , laxman BCCI has enough money to hire service of gary kirsten for 2 weeks I don't think other test nations would be too pleased with their coach going off to help out another nation for a few weeks Link to comment
BeautifulGame Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 5 hours ago, express bowling said: What does these sentences mean ? Seriously, I don't get it ! I thought the coach was there to handle things. Basically Shastri didn't want go two weeks early along with test specialists. Link to comment
coffee_rules Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Why does the coach need a sunscrren anyway, fin chut, and that too to a presser. Fin showoff. Link to comment
Khota Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 He is pathetic that is why he sounds pathetic. this man never had to work hard for a day in his life to get anything. Test status was handed to him because of Mumbai lobby. All his life he got things for nothing. Shame. Link to comment
veer Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 9 hours ago, chewy said: In one way I sympathise with Shastri, he is probably the butt of jokes amongst coaching staff around the world he didn’t have any acumen in commentary, god knows what pearls of wisdom he hands out during training especially to International cricketers anyway he is the last one laughing to the bank That's some heavy dose of drink or drugs or both... Link to comment
Rasgulla Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 22 minutes ago, beetle said: ram ram.. Early morning se start kiya beetle ne Link to comment
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