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The knives are out after India's debacle in the World Cup
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
The knives are out after India's debacle in the World Cup. The critics are having a field day.
Pradeep Magazine, writing in the Hindustan Times, says tough questions need to be asked.
Why has a team that was once being thought of rivalling Australia (in Tests) as the best in the world, disintegrated into one that is disjointed, filled with insecure players ill at ease and suspicious of each other.
Things like scribes being sent text messages or emails about players (and it getting back to them), haven't helped. Many, from players to officials, blame Chappell for this insecurity, saying his "divisive methods" made almost every senior distance himself from the team's collective vision. A stage was reached this month when some alleged the coach had told them that Tendulkar was "more interested in becoming captain" and Ganguly was "aloof and disinterested".
Ashok Malik, of the Pioneer, believes sweeping changes need to be made.
This world cup was supposed to be the grand farewell of Indian cricket's "Greatest Generation"; instead it became the whimpering valediction. Retirement beckons, and well before the 2011 world cup in the subcontinent.
Kunal Pradhan reckons the " laptop vision has failed miserably and ... it’s about time India rejected the process and its architects."
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo