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ASSEMBLY POLL '98
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E-mail from readers the world over
Date sent: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:29:07 +0530 One of the most vicious attacks against a sportsman that I have had the misfortune to read. Not nice, and not true. Ravi Talwar
Date sent: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:37:20 -0800 I thought this article about Dravid was bit too nasty and totally uncalled for. Though he did play badly in one day internationals and he had to be criticised for his rank bad play against the West Indies and also against Zimbabwe, he did not capitalise on the opportunity he had. Comparing him with some nerds of the nth order is pathetic writing. To comment about bad play and writing something nasty like this is pretty easy and telling him to retire is the best solution which I think is really stupid. At the same time one must not forget his heroic effort in South Africa where he really played well in the Test matches because of which India did not lose that series miserably and he did play a stellar role in the final of the triangular series in South Africa. Yeah, it is a known fact that it is a problem for him to accelerate the scoring rate but that does not give the writer of this column to compare him with some stupid jerks of our country. He has played some match winning innings and instead of trying to help him out by sending him to great players like Javed Miandad or for that matter even Michael Bevan and Dean Jones for some training where he could improve on his batting skills one should not criticise him on his failure. If he acquires even some of that skill he along with Azhar could play through the middle overs and score at 6 runs an over even without hitting a boundary. The only important thing for Dravid is to just rotate the strike and if he can acquire that with some help from senior cricketers then India should have a commendable batting line-up of both aggression and caution and I frankly feel that he will be an asset for us in England during the World Cup where the ball is going to swing a lot and he could stabilise the batting line-up. It is always easy to criticise someone on his failure which I think every human being has this inborn talent in him to do that. And for god's sake if Dravid has to be criticised do the best you can, but don't compare him with some stupid jerks. I would appreciate that. Rajesh
Date sent: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:13:11 -0800 This article shows the total ignorance of the author as regards cricket and it definitely puts Rediff on the NeT in a very pathetic state. I was, till now quite impressed by Rediff's reviews of cricket happenings, but this particular article portrays Rediff as just yet-another news group ready to publish anything that a supposedly renowned (in the field of writing cookbooks!) person scribbles. How can Rediff stoop so low?! Sir, I sincerely wish you would let Prem Panicker and the likes to do the cricket reviews and, of course, there is ample space for the likes of Gangadhar to comment on paruppu vadai and ellu koikattai! bhaskar
Date sent: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 22:44:23 +0800 Clearly a case of biased reporting. There is no objectivity in the report. Looks like the writer is just bent on a personal attack against the player. Be more forthright and critical in analysis. Sadiqsohail
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 19:56:37 -0800 Excellent. Makhan Seru
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:27:29 -0500 Please!!! I hope whoever has written this "article"(though you cannot imagine how painful it is for me to call it that) takes this as a not too subtle hint and fades away from journalism just as he expects Dravid to fade away from cricket. The article stank so bad that I do not know where to begin criticising it. On top of all the glaring faults in the article (and I am not even talking about how biased the author appears to be), he seems to singularly ignorant of facts, yet almost fanatical in pulling down others who have achieved far more than he can ever hope to, for no apparent or logical reason! I would recommend a good therapist to resolve whatever bad baggage he seems to be carrying around or maybe he was dropped on the head as a child. Whatever! The best thing, of course, would be if he stops writing such trash and quits writing articles period, but if that's not possible, at least Rediff should stop printing such crap. You do have a reputation to maintain.. Vamsee
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:07:04 -0700 I am in total agreement with V Gangadhar when he says that Rahul Dravid is a total misfit for one-day internationals but the article goes overboard in denouncing Dravid. One can never overlook the utility of a batsman of Dravid's technique and temperament in Test matches especially on fast and bouncy pitches in the West Indies, South Africa and Australia. On such pitches, against the new ball, survival is the order of the day and not flashy, aggressive batting. In such situations, one cannot overemphasise the need for correct technique and Dravid is the only Indian batsman apart from Tendulkar who has the technique to confront top quality fast bowling. Arvind Kamath
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:13:01 -0600 The guy who wrote this is a misfit in the reporting industry. How can you write like that about a batsman who is under intense pressure to attack? Give him some time man and he will show you what he is. He is the only one who can stop a landslide in the batting order once Sachin fails. Mr Gangadhar looks like a misfit to me.
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:07:06 -0600 Ask that naive Gangadhar to shut up and stay at home. He doesn't realise that he is the one who is a misfit for this "skill" in analysing a situation/person. Maybe, he should retire. Pathetic article indeed, and that too in Rediff? I was amazed. Are you guys short of articles or what??? Ajith K
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:33:11 -0600 This is in reference to Mr V Gangadhar's article related to Rahul Dravid being a misfit in the Indian one day team. Two things become immediately clear on reading this "article", one, that Mr Gangadhar is an immature writer, who seems to have a personal grudge against Rahul Dravid, and second, that he has absolutely no idea about what cricket is all about. He must belong to the same class of people, as our selectors, like Lele and company. He forgets it was these selectors who took it upon themselves to destroy Rahul Dravid's confidence, by dropping him from the one day team, days after he had scored 82 in 100 odd balls in a Test against Sri Lanka. After that, whenever he has been taken in the team, he has been given step-motherly status, being played all around the batting order. The shocking part about Mr Gangadhar's article is, he almost disputes Rahul's place in Test matches!!! I sure hope for Mr Gangadhar's sake, that not too many people he knows would have read the article, for he probably is the laughing stock of all of them now. He has forgotten, all those foreign tours, where the only person, on whom India can rely on has always been Rahul Dravid (apart from Sachin of course!!) In conclusion, I'd like to say, India needs more people like Rahul Dravid, put we certainly don't need more people like Mr V Gangadhar!!! Aditya
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 08:16:58 -0500 Made no sense ... best if Gangadhar sticks to films and politics... I guess he does not have a cricketing brain to write such articles. Even today India could not fill in the gap left by Sanjay fully and Rahul is the ideal choice for a strong but a uncertain/unpredictable Indian batting line-up. I also believe Rediff has a good sports journalist (at least in cricket) in Prem who always advocates that RD should be in the team for his technique and here we have Gangadhar who does not agree to that and above all his comparison of RD with Rajendra and Sushma did not make sense to me. Kalidas
Date sent: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:14:39 PST Speaking of Rahul Dravids in India, the columnist too is a Rahul Dravid of sorts. To make a comment such as "One of his predecessors in the Indian team, Sanjay Manjrekar, was also praised for his excellent batting technique. The cricket writers do not understand that if batsmen like Manjrekar and Dravid are in the team, India will never win a Test match and their snail-like approach will even keep the crowds away.What does 'excellent technique' mean? Pushing and prodding endlessly, not scoring runs for several overs, and allowing the initiative to pass on to the bowlers? "The hue and cry among Indian scribes over Dravid's omission from the earlier one-day matches must, hopefully, die down. This bloke is okay for Pepsi ads where, surrounded by shrill-sounding girls, he bats endlessly, trying to improve his 'technique'. If the technique improves any more, Rahul Dravid will not score any more runs. "Let us have less of perfect technique and maiden overs in one-dayers, and more of unorthodoxy and aggression in the Indian batting. Everyone cannot be a Sachin Tendulkar, but then let them not bat like Rahul Dravid." This totally shows how unfit he is to make an intelligent comment on Test cricket. Though no fan of Rahul Dravid myself in the 'slam-bam thank you maam! ' bastardised version of the game, it is sheer ignorance that can make a person not see the importance of Rahul Dravids and Sanjay Manjrekars in the longer real version of the game. Test matches not only have to be won, but before that they have to be saved as well. And that is when the real talent of a batsman shines out, when he has to bat the whole of the last day, with no realistic chance of getting the 450 runs required and a pitch worn out after 5 days of play, that is what separates the men from the boys. And on such days, you need to remember and apply every word of what your coach told you. You need to put your head down and grind, keep all your shots to the ground. Play in the V. Tire the bowlers. Protect the weaker batsman from the strike. All this so you can draw a game, and live to fight another day, when the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin can blaze away, while the Rahul Dravids and Shivnaraine Chanderpauls play second fiddle. A player like Sachin Tendulkar comes once in 50 years, let us not be swept by the way he bats to such an extent, that we forget that cricket is not a spectator sport. And if the spectators find Sunil Gavaskar's 96 versus Pakistan at Bangalore on the last day of a Test match on a wicket that was turning square boring to watch, the loss is theirs and not the game's. Also the Indian innings folded up to Ijaz Faqhi, after the master of technique got out. To take cheap pot-shots at Rahul Dravid's commercials is frankly rather unbecoming of the columnist. And on a parting note, Sanjay Manjrekar has a Test double century against Pakistan in Pakistan, what does Sachin have? One first class double hundred, versus the Australians at his homeground. Sachin Agarwal
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