Blame ducks
Writing in his column in Mumbai Mirror , Makarand Waigankar dwells on the treatement meted out to the former Indian senior players
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
Writing in his column in Mumbai Mirror, Makarand Waigankar dwells on the treatement meted out to the former Indian senior players. He says, "Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly are fortunate that they were allowed to quit on their terms. International cricket is ruthless. No great cricketer has been spared when he stopped performing. And the truth is often harsher than such senior cricketers can digest."
... there was the incident of Mohinder Amarnath landing at Chandigarh in 1988 as one of the selectors had left a message with his father Lala that Mohinder should be there to attend the selection committee meeting as the new captain of the Indian team. But it was Vengsarkar who was asked by the BCCI secretary Ranbir Singh Mahendra to attend the selection committee meeting. The moment Amarnath realised Vengsarkar would be leading, he barged into the press box and created a ruckus. Understandably, he was hurt.
There was also this incident when Bishan Singh Bedi was disciplined and dropped for the first Test against the West Indies in 1974 for granting a human interest interview to a London based TV channel. Later in 1979 at Kolkata against Alvin Kallicharan’s West Indies team he was dropped for bowling badly and wasn’t picked again.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo