Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire???

[Mandrake]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? "India still have batsmen in waiting who can score regularly more than Sachin does now-a-days,....most important Sachin has never been a team player...what I mean to say is...Sachin has hardly played and won a match for India....but same is not true for Lara...many times he has batted when WI needed it most." Sandtest...That's pure baloney....see blame Sachin all you can for his recent lack of runs but things like "Sachin has never been a team player" or "has hardly won a match for India"...jeez....the guy did that spectacularly right upto 2003....that's a HUGE lapse in memory on your part.

[dial_100]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? They are playing for different countries and different conditions. How can we compare them. I tell you if SRT and LARA were playing for say NZ or SL, we would all be praising them all time. Remember there many knocks were wasted because of poor bowling by our blowers many a times. How could you say that he didn't win matches for us. Bring any single player in the world, say Ponting or Hayden and play them in our team. Forget winning, they wont even sustain the pressure of playing for India. And if either of these two play for say good bowling line up, they will surely win the games. Its a team game of 11. STOP blaming just 1 for not winning the matches as if there are 5 others who have been wining you every other game and not SRT alone. We have been pathetic team for last 10 years. Only SRT, Dravid and Gangs brought some greenery to our cricket life. Everytime bowlers and batters clicked together, we have won against good teams quite comfortably.

[Anakin]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? One of the biggest myths around the cricket world is just that, lara being all that.

[King Tendulkar]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire???

One of the biggest myths around the cricket world is just that' date=' lara being all that.[/quote'] Exactly, has he ever fired in a world cup and dominated it? NO Sachin has top scored in 2 out of last 4 world cups. Yet people say Sachin never does it on big occassions and Lara does. :chin: There is never anything bigger then the WC and Lara has always flopped while more often then not Sachin delivered.

[chanakya]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? On the other hand this is intresting. We all keep saying match winners etc. Cricket is however a team sport. Just a batsman can't win it for you. You need to have the bowlers pitch in as well. How ever it really shows how good both players are when you expect them to single handdedly win matches. WI have never been the same after ambrose and walsh retired. While they were there no score was small enough for them not to defend.

[Chandan]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? Ravi, Here is what Ian chappell has written about Lara: My sympathies! By: Ian Chappell April 12, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deplorable bowling and dispirited fielding have taken a toll on Lara BRIAN Lara is retiring from one- day cricket after the World Cup. The way the West Indies bowlers are currently performing, I?ll bet the next two games can?t pass quickly enough for Lara; in fact their World Cup performance has been so deplorable it may even convince him to think about calling it a day as a Test player. Appalling The West Indies bowling is appalling; there is not much pace and even less thought being given as to how batsmen might be dismissed and this deplorable bunch are now being backed by dispirited fielders. All this has taken its toll on Lara, the captain and batsman. When Lara batted against Australia he was in good form and played superbly in a losing cause. However, as the West Indies have gone on a downward spiral during the Super Eight section of the World Cup, Lara has looked more and more like a batsman who is trapped in a maze and has concluded there is no way out. It is sad to see a batsman who has been a great champion, suffer from his teammates inadequacies but this has been Lara?s lot throughout the bulk of his career. It has been Lara?s misfortune to captain the West Indies when their fast bowling was mired in a bearish slump following a prolonged bull market. Lara must look wistfully back to the times when Clive Lloyd and then Viv Richards rotated four fast bowlers, three of whom were champions and think; ?If only I?d been born ten years earlier.? Lloyd and Richards had the choice of tossing the ball to Andy Roberts or Michael Holding or Joel Garner or Malcolm Marshall and that is only listing the champion bowlers. The top wicket-taker during Lara?s one-day captaincy period has been the enigmatic Chris Gayle. Lara has received a lot of criticism for his captaincy, much of it unwarranted but it?s hard to be very creative when your leading strike bowler purveys deliveries at a gentle pace whilst wearing sun glasses. Champion Lara has been a great champion with the bat and despite the ineffectiveness of the bowlers he?s always maintained a high standard when wielding the willow. The fact that the West Indies? embarrassing performance in front of home crowds is starting to take a toll on Lara the batsman might mean the load he?s carried throughout most of his career has finally become too much to bear. For more than a decade Lara has been the one player keeping West Indies cricket standard above the poverty line. On a number of occasions he?s said that he wants to see West Indies cricket rise again before he call it quits but it?s now looking more like that won?t happen. The sad part about Lara?s career ending on such a downer is it means he probably won?t receive full credit for his achievements as a batsman. The West Indies have had many outstanding batsmen. Sir Garfield Sobers is the best I?ve ever seen and Viv Richards was the most intimidating but Lara wasn?t far behind those two. ------------------------------------------------------------------- While writing about Sachin, Ian Chappell had commented that if Sachin could not win matches for his country then he should retire. But in Lara's case, he suddenly discovers that to win matches, you need a good team and above that a good bowling line up! How did he forget this, while writing about Sachin? :chin:

[King]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? Guess what this thread we created has fallen on few ears :hic: Right after we raised this question here the very next day Chappell's article comes out. I hope we are having a presence and I would like to believe people tend to take our opinions into account.

[King]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire???

However, as the West Indies have gone on a downward spiral during the Super Eight section of the World Cup, Lara has looked more and more like a batsman who is trapped in a maze and has concluded there is no way out. It is sad to see a batsman who has been a great champion, suffer from his teammates inadequacies but this has been Lara?s lot throughout the bulk of his career.

How very convinient to blame the rest for his Lara's indifferent batting form in the World Cup :shrug: His batting suffered from his team mates, what a load of bull shit this is :hic: Ian Chappell is proving to be more than senile here, the blinkers are way too showing with each passing article.

[King Tendulkar]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? Ian Chappels bias is pathetic. Total double standards in talking about Lara and King Sachin.

[The Outsider]

Re: Will Ian Chappell write Lara should retire??? Ian Chappell has confirmed that he is a first rate joker. To win matches, you need a good team.....hmmmmmm........is that correct? :chin: