Now, selectors tear into coach

[DesiChap]

Now, selectors tear into coach - ?If Chappell had his way, even Sachin wouldn?t have been picked? LOKENDRA PRATAP SAHI Calcutta: Selection committee chairman Dilip Vengsarkar declined to comment, indicating he would raise the SMS-issue with Board president Sharad Pawar, but two of his four colleagues tore into coach Greg Chappell while speaking to The Telegraph. ?Today, we can turn around and say that Irfan Pathan got picked only because the coach wanted him? Will that serve any purpose? Is that going to take Indian cricket forward? Will that give us a Super Eight berth?? asked one of the infuriated selectors, on the morning after Chappell?s SMS to a Bangalore-based journalist was made public. The SMS had been sent less than a week after India?s 15-man squad for the World Cup was selected. Among other things, Chappell messaged that he wasn?t happy and Vengsarkar was one of those who resisted the inclusion of youngsters at the expense of seniors. ?Chappell has no business revealing what happens at selection meetings? That?s confidential? If the squad wasn?t to his liking, he shouldn?t have signed on the selection-sheet. Or, he could have put a dissenting note. He didn?t? Chappell can?t act in one manner behind closed doors and quite another outside,? the other selector fumed. He added: ?In fact, if Chappell had his way, even Sachin Tendulkar wouldn?t have been picked? He?s against all seniors? Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag? He wants a young lot, the type to regularly wish him good morning and good night? That?s Chappell? I?m amused that he believes he?s answerable to the Board and nobody else? Being the national team?s coach, he?s first answerable to the country?? For the record, Chappell (whose contract has, technically, ended with the World Cup) had this to tell the world at the pre-departure Media conference in Mumbai: ?We have a good, balanced squad? Good experience combined with youth? We have good variety in bowling and batting that would give us a wide range of options no matter what the conditions or the opposition?? As that interaction was many days after the SMS, Chappell hadn?t been truthful with the Media. The SMS has evoked a strong reaction from former selector Ashok Malhotra, who was briefly stand-in coach during the April 2003 tri-series in Dhaka, as well. ?First, Vengsarkar acknowledged that Sehwag got selected because the captain (Rahul Dravid) wanted him? In other words, he himself wasn?t exactly happy picking him? Now, we learn that the coach wasn?t happy. What?s being suggested? Are we fools? ?Is Chappell trying to say that Suresh Raina would have done the trick? That?s a joke? Barring a couple of games where he had an impact, Raina has little to show from 36 ODIs? Bottomline is that Chappell has been a failure? This is a result-oriented world and he hasn?t succeeded. Chappell must accept that gracefully and go back to Australia. ?He had a poor record as South Australia?s coach? He hasn?t done anything with the Indian team either? Worse, by messaging he wasn?t happy with the squad, Chappell has conveyed that he wasn?t on the same wavelength as Dravid? That?s appalling and makes a bigger hole in his man-management abilities? In my view, the Board has to quickly look at somebody else,? Malhotra thundered. Clearly, Chappell?s SMS has added to the rattled Board?s woes as it?s having to douse fires on many fronts. It?s a tough ask. ?I?m definitely going to talk to him about it, but not immediately? Let the team return and let things settle down,? informed a hassled secretary Niranjan Shah. Incidentally, the squad won?t be arriving together in Mumbai late on Wednesday. Sourav, for one, has stayed back in London.

[Rajiv]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Getting nasty here, and the media love to expose EVERYTHING..sounds more like chinese whispers

[gs]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach

?If Chappell had his way, even Sachin wouldn?t have been picked?

Would it have made any difference to the outcome? :chin:

[yoda]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Chappell has a right to be upset. He did not get the team he wanted. OTH he himself is responsible for not getting the team he wanted cause we choked big time in WI and SA with his team.

[Rajiv]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Check this article out http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Dont_mock_process_follow_it/articleshow/1825490.cms

[yoda]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Wow, even N. Murthy is jumping into the cricket discussion. :lmao:

If Chappell?s process didn?t work, maybe it wasn?t followed properly or he wasn?t allowed to implement it in full.

What if it was a defective process? :chin:

[apocalypse]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach I guess that is totally lame for the selectors to transfer the blame to coach entirely they have equal hand in this but alas it all ends up in politics

[King]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Quite on expected lines after Chappell try to pass the buck. Now it is selectors turn to pass the buck. All in all it shows how professional both the coach and selectors were :shrug:

[apocalypse]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Had you been Indian Selector whom you have picked/dropped

[gator]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach

Had you been Indian Selector whom you have picked/dropped

i would have put faith in the same team which delivered 21 consecutive run chases against all comers.... Vengsarkar came and behaved like a rabid dog bringing in Jaffer as an odi opener, picking kumble over powar....bringing back Ganguly, while Gambhir could have been confidence and groomed in that time... sending back Pathan in the middle of a tour and breaking his confidence.... He systematically anihilated every single new comer who was making the indian team slowly turn a corner..... he put a stop to sending Dhoni up the order... he got rid of kaif, raina, gambhir, powar, pathan...

[Don]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Shows how good Johnny Wright!

[Chandan]

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?First, Vengsarkar acknowledged that Sehwag got selected because the captain (Rahul Dravid) wanted him? In other words, he himself wasn?t exactly happy picking him? Now, we learn that the coach wasn?t happy. What?s being suggested? Are we fools? ?Is Chappell trying to say that Suresh Raina would have done the trick? That?s a joke? Barring a couple of games where he had an impact, Raina has little to show from 36 ODIs? Bottomline is that Chappell has been a failure? This is a result-oriented world and he hasn?t succeeded. Chappell must accept that gracefully and go back to Australia. ?He had a poor record as South Australia?s coach? He hasn?t done anything with the Indian team either? Worse, by messaging he wasn?t happy with the squad, Chappell has conveyed that he wasn?t on the same wavelength as Dravid? That?s appalling and makes a bigger hole in his man-management abilities? In my view, the Board has to quickly look at somebody else,? Malhotra thundered.

This is the first time I'm agreeing with Malhotra!!!

[dial_100]

Re: Now, selectors tear into coach Me too. I think all 3 of them are responsible 1 way or the other. Selectors, Captain and Coach. Captain for bolwing change, persisting with Sehwag. Coach for not sorting out differences with Captain and creating so much fuss about everything and selectors for last 12 mos or so giving the team that they shouldn;t have. If had they not given up on Sehwag, it would have been different. Their role is to make sure nothing falls thru the crack. Unfit, out-of-form and unsuitable player need to make it to the team.