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    Is the end nigh for Greg’s Indian summer?

    By Scott 2 years ago, at the end of November Leave a comment on this post

    I tuned in to watch India play South Africa the other evening at Cape Town. I am not a huge fan of the fifty over game, but this was one of the more entertaining and memorable games. India ripped through South Africa’s top order before Justin Kemp scored a blazing century to put a large score on the board, and then India struggled before Dhoni engineered a brief revival. However once he was out, India crashed to another defeat.

    For India, losing one day games is a serious business. Australia lost an ODI series to South Africa earlier this year, and this caused mild annoyance. For India losing two ODI games has caused mobs to burn Greg Chappell’s effigy and questions to be raised in Parliament.

    Chappell in turn has quipped back, causing yet more uproar. India’s more passionate fans and political figures are making a collosal racket, and South African observers must be having a nice old chuckle at the disarray that Indian cricket is in.

    I would be having a nice old chuckle myself at the spectacle India’s cricket community is making of itself, if not for the fact that India’s cricket establishment is only going to grow more important in world cricket in the years ahead. The fact that they are carrying on like this does not bode well for cricket’s future.

    And as for Greg Chappell’s future? Well, I’m sure he’d be open to offers.

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    One Response to “Is the end nigh for Greg’s Indian summer?”

  • Shan wrote:
    November 29th, 2006 at 11.54 am

    Gred Chappell is an arrogant bastard who is like one of those high priced consultants to come to rich but stagnating brick and mortar companies with a mandate to turn things around (seen ‘Office Space’?) His method basically consisted of changing the profile of a cricket coach to that of a football coach ie. absolute power. The only way he could do that was by ousting (with the help of politicking board members) the only person with a mind of his own in the team, Sourav Ganguly, and replacing him by the ambitious, yet pliable Rahul Dravid. Dravid is a great bat but an useless, unimaginative, and pusillaminous captain.

    Greg Chappels most famous quote has to be “Winning or losing doesn’t matter. What matters is the process.” The process evidently consists of removing everone in the team who had any ‘allegiance’ the Ganguly and replacing them with young, mute, callow youngsters, all with a view to “the future”, ability and track record be damned.

    Now he is beginning to reap what he sowed, and by god he deserves every bit of it for changing a potentially world beating team to a devastated, divided, sickly shadow of its former self.

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