Success has many parents. Failure is an orphan...

The dismal performance of the Indian Cricket team in the World Cup earlier this year has brought shock to many. Chappell was dismissed on grounds of proven incapacity and Sunny Gavaskar had his own way of putting things against Chappell, for he remarked, "Batting has floundered under Chappell".
Now, when Chappell took over as coach, the team saw quite a number of victories that were attributed by the same "experts" to Chappell's Australian aggression. That was a period when the duo of Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell was deemed invincible. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was supposed to be the find of the period.
After the world cup, where are all these people? All their reputation has gone underground. Now, why has this happened?
Problems in managing players are bound to occur. But taking those problems onto the playing arena only shows incompetence on the part of the team.
Still, winning and losing should be taken in the stride and it should be understood that it is not everytime that India loses to a team like Bangladesh. Unfortunately, it happened in the World Cup. Attributing all this to Chappell's mismanagement is like making him the scapegoat. Where was the talent of the "senior" cricketers? What could Chappell do if players would not co-operate? Drop those players from the side and be blamed for that as well?
Why should one grow hair like Dhoni when the latter hits sixes one after the other and why should one break his house for getting out early in one match? Isn't it insane?
Cricket today gets more respect than what it actually deserves. In a country that boasts of cricket being the religion, the situation is not surprising.

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