Though selection in India has undergone a vast improvement in the last few years, there will always remain problems so long as the selctors are doing an honorary job on a regional basis. And now there is this funnily constituted selection commitee for the selection of the coach !! The commitee comprises of -
SK Nair - BCCI seceretary and convenor of the commitee
Mahendra - BCCI President
Dalmiya - Of Course !!
Gavaskar - Second highest run-scorer for India
Shastri - The Worst Commentator ever
Venkat - India's greatest umpire
Other than Venkat, the other names on the list do not inspire me with confidence. We all know what is going to be top of the agenda of Nair, Mahendra and Dalmiya. It is going to be money, power, perhaps the welfare of Ganguly in Dalmiya's case but certainly not the best interests of the team.
And Gavaskar and Shastri are the most eleigible yes-men of the 2 liabilities of the Indian team - Sachin Tendulkar and SOurav Ganguly - so what these 2 men will look for in the candidate is nothing other than the willingness to protect the interests of these players - for e.g. Dean Jones had suggested in a recent interview that the Indian batting should be flexible in ODIs allowing Yuvraj and Kaif to go up the order at times and that Tendulkar should not always open.
Is it difficult to imagine the reaction of Gavaskar and Shastri to such a "sacriligeous" suggestion - "After all these years and after scoring so many hundreds at the top of the order ... how can one even think of putting him down ... blah blah blah "
You get what I mean - these 2 will be always ready to take indirect shots at the youngsters however - "Sometimes the India cap is given too early ... and it is not valued enough ... and some players after their success in the U-19 World Cup perhaps got the cap too easily ..." and all that rubbish
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Interesting .. I see a parallel in WI because there is this huge clamour to get former greats into the game. But they come with their biases and the rest. So Bennett King is a good idea. And why Ravi Shastri seem to have such a exalted status in India. He was an average to good player and probably the worst commentator ever.
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