Prasad and Robin sacked from coaching roles

Comments: 46 

Posted by East_West on (October 21 2009, 05:08 AM GMT)

Yes, I am deeply disappointed and hurt that BCCI did not at fast enough to revoke their contract! What was Prasad expecting? To be a coach forever?? As Rahul Dravid once said, "captain has shelf life"..and coaches do as well!! It's just business at the end of the day [as MODI puts it]!

Posted by PrinceKler on (October 18 2009, 19:57 PM GMT)

i do not understand how indian cricket fans can consider either Prasad and Prabhakar as fast bowling experts. Prasad was for the best moments of his career always was a sidekick to Srinaths true fast bowling. Prabhakat never hit more than 130km and his career ended in 4 overs to Jayasuriya. So BCCI pleast lets invest that money employ Jonty Rhodes at the fielding coach along with his buddy Gary and get somebody like Lille or Mcgrath or atleast somebody with a good repetoire like Wasim and Waqar ... In fact lets emply both wasim and waqar to teach our young bowlers like Ishant and Sreesanth to reverse swing at a rally high pace as waqar used to bowl around 149-152 in the prime of his career

Posted by Sobnesh on (October 18 2009, 18:12 PM GMT)

I reckon that the decision by BCCI to sack prasad is a correct one.Indians in general have not been good at their pace bowling department for a long time.The pace battery of the Aussie and South Africans have all been good.Even the Windies second string team which played the Champions Trophy did have Roach a sensational speedster bowling around 150Kmph.Most of the top teams in the world have had at least 2 bowlers who can bowl consistently above 140Kmph.Indian bowlers are good in swinging the ball but when it comes to pace, clever usage of the bowling crease and the variations like the slower ones and the most important of all " bowling yorkers consistently at death overs", they have never had answers.It would be wise to put a foreigner as a bowling coach as they would be able to bring in new things which would help the Indians to find answers for many of their above said problems.With the foreign bowling coach in context, I think McGrath and Pollock as favorites for this crucial job.

Posted by Mahendra_Ishant_Pathan on (October 18 2009, 17:02 PM GMT)

I have seen so many times, time and again, indian team having lots of problems finding rythm may it be feilding, batting or bowling after a long break. It happened in ganguly's and Dravid's era and now with Dhoni's too. Will this happen with every team or just indian team?

Posted by SUNDOS on (October 17 2009, 14:07 PM GMT)

The richest cricketing board in the world,wielding so much influence,seems to get it wrong with most decisions.First Dravid,now Prasad and Robin Singh,surely the "wise men" must have counsel in times like these.An important one day series against India's nemesis looms.Uncertainty on the new coaches,a lack of time before the season starts,and so much controversy does not bode well for India.Best of Luck BCCI,you may have just relegated India to the "also rans" of the world after so much promise.

Posted by Mahendra_Ishant_Pathan on (October 16 2009, 06:16 AM GMT)

I think Manoj prabakar will be a good choice for this position instead of Prasad. I still dont understand, why most of our pacer drop their pace drastically after one year of their international stint. Is this the strategy of Mr. Dhoni or Gary or prasad himself? Whoever may be the reason, Prasad is rightly sacked as he is the responsible person. It's disheartening to see the quality of our young pace bowlers. They are called pace bowlers without any pace. I think MRF pace academy is complete waste. Indian Pace legends like Kapil Dev, Manoj Prabakar, Javagal srinath should come together and start a "academy for art of pace bowling" to develop this art in india. Not only this, some of the pitches have to be redone in india to encourage pace bowlers.

Posted by 6x_CS_King on (October 16 2009, 02:58 AM GMT)

i feel indian bowling and fielding department has been the worst for the last few months, other than zaheer and harbhajan i dont think the other bowlers like Rp ishant.look like picking wickets and mojor problem is the owlers losing their pace after coming into the team,, example of munaf ~(max)145 Kmph to ~(135) Kmph... Rp singh ~(max)135-140kmph to ~125kmph for india and ~135kmph for Deccan Chargers .. and ishant had a big drop ~145+(in CB series) to ~130+kmph,,atleast for zaheer you can accept when was in early twenty's of his age he bowled at 140+ and now he's bowling at ~135 kmph but has improved soo much in his accuracy, but theese youngsters have dropped a lot in pace and lost accuracy too. whats wrong with a country of 1 billion population not able to find a guy who can consistently hit pace above 145 KMph..and how can bret lee at above 30's can bowl at 145kmph when all the indian young bowlers less than 25 years old cannot even bowl at 140's even for a year ..continously

Posted by Scrop on (October 16 2009, 01:23 AM GMT)

Its very immature to sack these 2 coaches. Whose is going to be the next bowling coach ? I dont see a foreign coach because no foreign coach will be ready to travel as frequently as Indian Team does. So it got to be an Indian bowler. I dont see any decent Fast bowler or bowling coach in India, except Kapil whom the BCCI wont appoint. Manoj prabhakar is alleged of Match-fixing so he wont be included. Fielding, same I dont see any good fielder or fielding coach apart from Jadeja who is also alleged of Match fixing.

Posted by cric_follower on (October 15 2009, 21:02 PM GMT)

BCCI is back to its unprofessional ways. People fired from their jobs get to know about it from the media. Why can't they simply let these people know before hand, like its done in most work places. Apart from that I do not know what contribution they were making or not making to the team. The input really has to come from the head coach. However, something had to give as India's one-day bowling has not improved for a long time now.

Posted by ggcricket on (October 15 2009, 19:41 PM GMT)

Posted by ssumm3r on (October 15 2009, 17:33 PM GMT) kapil dev should be the bowling coach. :) ........... I dont think BCCI will appoint Kapil Dev, bcoz he is associated with ICL, first he has to break his ties from ICL, then only I think BCCI will decide.