India Cap - Available for anyone with connections
A lot has happened since my last post. So, let me start with the team selection - for a full fledged tour like this and taking on a resurgent English side, India prepared itself in the worst possible manner. There was fiasco after fiasco - starting with the coach appointment and Ford ditching them. Then, there is the usual matter of botched selection attempts. Dilip Vengsarkar saw to it that he filled the team with non performers from Bombay - I could not understand the logic of dropping Viru (mind you; I am no fan of his inconsistent ways) as well as Bhajji. Both were decent in the Afro-Asian cup and I thought that both deserved a spot in the test team at least. I also thought that Murali Karthik, the only Indian with a full county contract this year (playing for Middlesex) should have got a recall but one must remember that his name is not ending with a 'kar' and he is not playing for Mumbai and hence there was little chance of he making the 14.
So, how did they come up with that name - Chandu Borde, the grand old man from Pune for the coach. Well !! if you want to have a hearty laugh, go through this and laugh till it aches
http://i3j3cricket.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ford-gate/
Maybe the powers that govern thought that we need a 70+ plus man in the 75th year after India began playing test cricket in England. Anyway, I have nothing against Borde per se but question the relevance in this day and age, where the game has moved to a laptop age. You can duck under by saying that it is still a game, where someone has to hit it with a wooden piece as far as it can go but believe me, things have changed. All you have to do is to look at the ODI economy rates. There was a time, when an economy rate of 4 was considered decent at best; today, if you have 4, they will knight you in the 10th game itself.
So, India lands in cold Ireland (not an ideal way to prepare for a 80+ day tour) and begin playing against a lowly Irish side, whose players felt that they have better things to do than playing India. Then, half the team gets the flu and guess what - the back room manovours begin; the thank you messages for the vote banks are reciprocated and guess what some one called Arjun Yadav (who was best known for beating up Rayadu in Ananthapur in a crikcet match.. see this link.. http://www.cricketfundas.com/featuredec52005bvs.html) gets the India cap. My god - it is real cheap man..it is real cheap. Things can not get any worse than this.
So, how did they come up with that name - Chandu Borde, the grand old man from Pune for the coach. Well !! if you want to have a hearty laugh, go through this and laugh till it aches
http://i3j3cricket.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ford-gate/
Maybe the powers that govern thought that we need a 70+ plus man in the 75th year after India began playing test cricket in England. Anyway, I have nothing against Borde per se but question the relevance in this day and age, where the game has moved to a laptop age. You can duck under by saying that it is still a game, where someone has to hit it with a wooden piece as far as it can go but believe me, things have changed. All you have to do is to look at the ODI economy rates. There was a time, when an economy rate of 4 was considered decent at best; today, if you have 4, they will knight you in the 10th game itself.
So, India lands in cold Ireland (not an ideal way to prepare for a 80+ day tour) and begin playing against a lowly Irish side, whose players felt that they have better things to do than playing India. Then, half the team gets the flu and guess what - the back room manovours begin; the thank you messages for the vote banks are reciprocated and guess what some one called Arjun Yadav (who was best known for beating up Rayadu in Ananthapur in a crikcet match.. see this link.. http://www.cricketfundas.com/featuredec52005bvs.html) gets the India cap. My god - it is real cheap man..it is real cheap. Things can not get any worse than this.
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