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Daily Roundup (May-30-2007)
Flint-man will have another operation on his ankle, and will not take any part in the ongoing series with WI. "Andrew Flintoff has undergone rigorous fitness testing over the past two days, most recently 30 minutes of net bowling on Tuesday, but has reacted to the testing with further discomfort in his left ankle," said the ECB's chief medical officer, Dr Nick Peirce. Well, that's probably one less player to worry about when India goes to England.
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IND-SA ODI series in Ireland is in doubts as BCCI's TV deal with Zee has been now been scrapped."We have decided to scrap the deal," Ashish Kaul, senior vice-president of Zee Group, told Press Trust of India. Zee and the BCCI signed a five-year deal worth around US$219 million last year, the terms of which obliged India to play up to 25 "home" ODIs outside the country. The deal was believed to have been scrapped after a meeting yesterday - it is not clear at which side's instigation - and the BCCI are now in discussions with another broadcaster. The Irish board told Cricinfo that a statement will be released soon. Zee is accusing BCCI for the scrapping, while BCCI, true to its nature, is not saying anything. Instead, they are looking for another channel to catch the bait. On another thought, if the series is indeed scrapped, it could give players some more personal time and probably a longer camp to iron out whatever issues they have.
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Some changes in rules are in the offing, as ICC discusses the use of glue on pitches and ball tampering laws.The committee has been asked to consider whether, in future, action should be taken against the captain and person responsible for ball tampering or just the person responsible and whether it is necessary to legislate to make it compulsory for umpires to first warn a captain before taking action.
The regulations that allow on-field umpires to consult the TV officials on the subject of clean catches are also likely to come up in the meeting. ----------
Avinash Iyer questions the logic of sending top fast bowlers to the Afro-Asian tournament, especially with 2 breaking down in Bnagladesh and a packed schedule coming up.Zaheer has played 43 days of cricket this season and as per India’s schedule has roughly 70 more days before the end of the year. Isn’t that a lot of work for a fast bowler?
The game is to be held in Bangalore on June 5, while the camp is from June 4-9 in Mysore. So, Sreesanth is set to miss two or three days of the camp to bowl a maximum of four overs in the match. Niranjan, in his top form, says that matches are more important than practice. This prompts Madan Lal to aptly ask, if that's true then why have camps at all? Pretty intelligent question, this one, but I'm sure Niranjan would have come up with a better one-liner for Madan Lal had some journalist told him what was said. If not Naranjan, Lalit would surely have had something to say, to put Madan Lal in his place. These damn pests....
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On one hand Madan Lal is making comments on how BCCI works, on the other hand he is throwing his name in for being India's coach for the second time.“I would definitely love to coach India if I am offered the job. I have done it in the past and would love to have another go at it,” Madan Lal said here today. However....Madan Lal insisted that he would not approach the board with his candidature. “I am not going to approach the board. In fact, I don’t have any idea how to go about it. So if they come with the offer, I would definitely extend my service,” said the former cricketer, part of “Kapil’s Devils” who won the 1983 World Cup Now, this is plain laguable. He wants to coach but does not want to apply!!! What's more, he says he’s doesn't know how to apply!!! We had Jimmy who said he doesn't know how to operate a laptop. What's up with these ex-players applying for coach's job? Why do they feel proud in showing their deficiencies, showing off what they CAN'T do? Is it a matter of pride that Jimmy can't operate a laptop and Madan doesn't know how to apply for coach's job? Does that make them more qualified for the job? On top of that, Madan had been a coach before. Still he doesn't know how to apply? What, he doesn't have the most basic commonsense of writing a letter to BCCI secretary, if he wants to apply?
Geeezz... if this is what we are going to get from ex-player, then better not have them at all.
Continuing on, Madan Lal says this, if Whatmore gets the job:“He has worked with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and had some success with both the sides. But coaching India would be a different ball game altogether. You have to deal with a different system here. Handling star players and living up to the expectations of India’s highly emotional fans would be a daunting task,” he explained. What is this? Under Whatmore, Sri Lanka won WC96. From nobodies, Bangladesh reached super 8 after defeating India. This is "some success" ?? If this is some success, then what is more success? What can be considered more successful, than defeating Australia in WC finals?
So, Whatmore may find it difficult to handle indian stars. Will Madan Lal find it easy? What if a senior star asks him to either Shut Up or tell him what are his (Madan) own achievements as a coach or as a player? Ain't that enough to shut him up for good?
It's comments from nincompoops like him that make me agitated... very agitated.
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