amiret Posted February 23, 2012 Author Posted February 23, 2012 BCCI has arranged a Stage-managed press conference tomorrow. Seniors are set to clarify all issues ,i.e. put on a show and pretend all is well.
CG Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 it will only last if we get to finals otherwise things will get ugly.
achilles Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 We've been saying for years on ICF how Dhoni could've handled things differently.
J P K Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag patch up after BCCI intervention After being on the denial mode, the BCCI has now asked Secretary Sanjay Jagdale to do a clean-up act. It is understood that the board secretary has spoken to MS Dhoni and Virender Sehwag over the rift and they have been asked to patch up. Dhoni and Sehwag are expected to hold a joint press conference in Sydney on Friday to clarify their statements. The Board has asked the captain, the vice-captain and the other team members to be on the same page with respect to selection. They have also been asked to focus on cricket because India has two crucial matches coming up which they need to win if they have to make it to the CB Series finals. On Wednesday, the Indian Cricket Board denied the reports of rift in the team. BCCI President N Srinivasan called media reports "exaggerated". He said that he had checked with the media manager and the Board had nothing to be concerned about. "You have no knowledge of it. I don't think there is any rift in the team. There is nothing to be concerned about," Srinivasan had told the reporters after a meeting of the IPL Governing Council. "They were responding to such questions in a press conference. It happens after every match. I have spoken to media manager there. I think the reports are exaggerated," he said. BCCI Vice President Rajiv Shukla also refuted reports of a rift in the team. "Sehwag has been misquoted. That's what we came to understand. There is no rift in the team. It is only a speculation by a section of media. I don't think there is any problem. BCCI is in constant touch with the team," Shukla said. Pressed on the rotation policy, which has generated a heated debate, Shukla said,"Playing XI (is) decided by tour management consisting of manager, captain and coach." The Indian camp has been jostling with speculations of a rift in the team since Dhoni said that top-order batsmen - Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir - were being rotated and not played together in the ongoing series as they were 'slow fielders' who could cost the team 20 runs. However, Sehwag, who was the stand-in-captain for Tuesday's game against Sri Lanka due to regular skipper MS Dhoni serving a one match ban for slow over-rate, said that neither he nor any of the senior players had been told that their fielding was an issue. "I did not know what he (Dhoni) said and what's going on in media. He told us he wanted to give chance to youngsters who had come here and play the next World Cup. That's what he told us," said Sehwag. The opener, who took a brilliant catch in Tuesday's game against Sri Lanka, also retorted that their fielding had been the same since a decade. "Have you seen my catch?" Sehwag had snapped back, adding "we have been fielding the same way for the last 10 years."
zen Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Both of them are giving their opinion .... as usual our media over-analyzed their statements Press conferences should be fun with statements not taken out of proportion to see if a controversy can be created Indian press needs to grow up
Tendulkar_Bhai Posted February 23, 2012 Posted February 23, 2012 Sehwag should not even be in the team he shud be ashamed to be arguing about other peoples selections!
Stuge Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 Walia denies communication gap within Indian team GS Walia, India's media manager on tour in Australia, addressed the press on behalf of the team to try to douse reports of a communication breakdown between the senior players. Not the captain, coach, senior players or team manager, but the media manager was entrusted with a responsibility of such delicate nature. To quote Walia verbatim in certain matters might still be unfair because he often exceeded the brief of a media manager. Once, to a question if certain earlier press conferences this tour had affected the team, Walia said, "Certainly [all] facts were given to the nation. I don't want to get into why it happened. Let us all be positive." Back to the beginning. Walia began by saying there had been no communication gap, but when reminded of Virender Sehwag's comments that MS Dhoni had given him and the press two entirely different reasons for resting the seniors, Walia kept repeating the phrase, "Let's not analyse it further." What makes it a serious matter is that Sehwag said Dhoni had told him he was resting the seniors because he wanted the young players to get more experience and chances. But in a press conference Dhoni said playing all three senior batsmen together would cost the side an extra 20 runs in the field. Sehwag didn't take that comment well; he said that his fielding had been the same for 10 years, and also pointed to a full-length diving catch he took against Sri Lanka in Brisbane. The BCCI - at least in public - dismissed it all as misquoting by the media, but unconfirmed reports from India suggested the top brass had got in touch with the players and asked them to sort out the issues in a meeting on Thursday. Walia said that no such meeting happened, but that he had let the team know "immediately" after Sehwag's press conference on February 21 that "this is not a small thing". "Immediately when we came back along with Sehwag, I told everybody," Walia said. "Because this is not a small thing. The nation must know what is happening here. You are the only medium through which the information is passed on to the whole nation. So I conveyed this to them immediately, in exactly the same terms. Everybody was there. All 17. They said, 'Sir, nothing else. There is no difference, but we will be vigilant in future. If somebody has seen there is a communication gap, we will try to avoid that situation in future.' So let us now all concentrate on the game." Walia said the team is concerned about the reports that have appeared in the media. "First of all, I'll tell you there was no communication gap," Walia said. "But whatsoever is being shown or media is writing, the team is certainly concerned about it." The press let him know that they had been reporting whatever the players were telling them. They wanted to know how the BCCI got an impression the players were being misquoted, because it is not possible to do so with press conferences that are recorded on camera and beamed directly on televisions. Walia admitted there was no misquoting, and that there might have been a communication gap between the team and the board. "At a distance, if the president has said it, it is maybe his views," Walia said. "But I have never said it. I have never blamed the media. "There could be a communication gap. Seeing things from a distance. Let us all forget [everything]." The refrain of Walia's address was to forget all that had happened, and that the team was looking forward to the remaining two matches. "I am not blaming the media, but they [the players] are concerned," he said. "They are more concerned [than you]. "I think they are very positive about it. To play the next two matches in a positive way, and to their real potential. We played first four matches, and we lost one, but in the next three they came to their potential. Now the team again wants the next two matches should be like that only. "Let us not analyse the same situation, why this was generated, how it came to this. Let us forget it and be positive in the future." http://www.espncricinfo.com/commonwealth-bank-series-2012/content/current/story/555078.html
mishra Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 We've been saying for years on ICF how Dhoni could've handled things differently. +1.
asterix Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 In couple of days they'll anyway be back in India and can sort all the differences while watching the CB series finals on Telly.
Karan114 Posted February 24, 2012 Posted February 24, 2012 "There could be a communication gap. Seeing things from a distance. Let us all forget [everything]." :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Typical BCCI response. The team is going from one humiliation to the next, the players are bringing their petty fighting to the public realm like rabid dogs but let's just forget all that. Probably because that tamasha tournament is starting in a month and that's what really counts in Indian cricket
amiret Posted February 24, 2012 Author Posted February 24, 2012 i bet Rajiv Shuklaji is saying "Hum sab saath saath hain " : Everything will be kept under wraps , there is too much money at stake on both sides. similar quote from Irfan today at the stage-managed press conference.:hmmm:
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