Re: Greg Chappel emails BCCI / Full Text (merged)
In order to comment on the possible consequences and ramifications of a certain incidence, it is important to evaluate the possible benefits which different parties who are directly involved in that incidence would gain out of it. In this particular case, Chappel and Ganguly are the two parties.
One would argue and rightly so that what would Chappel gain out of this messy incidence? Is he a mere controlled freak or is he trying to assert his position as a coach in order implement his vision for Team India. Chaappel has joined the Indian team just few months ago and therefore the likelihood of Chappel having an attitude problem towards a certain player or players is highly unlikely. On the other hand, ganguly is about to lose his career forever. Therefore, it is obvious who would get into petty tactics. Isn’t it?
A certain fraction of Indian media is blaming Chappel for being tactless, ruthless and unaware of Indian culture and traditions. So what are those Indian traditions and culture? No one dared to tell us this. Probably, disclosing a private chat with the coach in public or leaking a highly confidential email from the coach are the traditions of Indian culture which of course Chappel would never be able to adhere to.
If one follows the sequence of this messy incidence in a chronological order, it is obvious that Chappel has not done anything extremely unusual. Given the obvious lack of depth in Ganguly’s batting for so long and extremely optimistic performance by kaif, wont the coach be justified to have a frank discussion with the skipper? Now that the contents of his emial are fully disclosed, it is pretty obvious that it was not only ganguly’s bad batting but the coach was also not happy with the skipper’s attitude.
And what is this entire hullabaloo about Chappel being a double faced person who after setting up a truce with the skipper decides to send an email against him to BCCI. If you read his email, it is pretty obvious that at the end of the tour, like every other coach, he is also sending the final report to BCCI summarizing his point of view. Do you really expect him to keep quite without revealing his real feelings just because he had made truce with an irresponsible skipper to save the tour?