Re: Ian Chappell: Bad loser?
I think...Ian Chappel is the only cricketer in the cricket history (as Australian Captain) who used to keep a radio transistor in his pocket...listening to commentators and altering his captaincy decisions on and off-field on the comments accordingly... :D
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that is not the best advice. They should ignore this idiot and concentrate on the cricket. Let the batting, fielding and winning do the talking. He gets paid to please his Aussie audience mainly. He is an aussie. They get paid to play cricket and Umar gets paid to make runs, field. Suing and things of that nature are really the boards job. They should sue Chappel.
Basically I would agree about ignoring, but since our media is more like west's bottom lickers, such a threat is necessary. This is THE threat that gives likes of Chappell sleepless nights, only need to mention it. And mention it loudly.. There are zillions of examples.
Here I must give credit to Indian media, as cr@py as they are, they know how to defend their players, and defend they do (against likes of this scumbag Chappell).
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^ I dont care for Ravi Sastry (too bombastic). But Sunil Gavaskar and L Sivaramakrishnan are two commentators I enjoy listening to. The latter is low key. And Sunil Gavaskar always stands up to the western commentators when they unfairly criticize our players. I also like Rameez Raja. He is very polite, without being subservient to western commentators.
I especially like Gavaskar in matches involving West Indies, because he has a special affection for West Indies.
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^ I dont care for Ravi Sastry (too bombastic). But Sunil Gavaskar and L Sivaramakrishnan are two commentators I enjoy listening to. The latter is low key. And Sunil Gavaskar always stands up to the western commentators when they unfairly criticize our players. I also like Rameez Raja. He is very polite, without being subservient to western commentators.
I especially like Gavaskar in matches involving West Indies, because he has a special affection for West Indies.
I quite like Shastri but have very high regard for Gavaskar, both as a player and commentator. Have seen him play quite a few brilliant innings for India.
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Ian Chappell’s verbal diarrhoea - his face clearly shows jealousy
It is obviously not right for the players or the team management (incl. Waqar and Inti) to get involved here or publicly challenge Ian Chappell’s comments about Afridi but I wish someone from the PCB had balls to put this fool in his place for his totally unwarranted attack on another country’s captain. It is not on
Slamming Afridi’s brainless batting (esp. the manner in which he gets out) is one thing but criticising his celebration (Afridi perhaps overdoes it …he does not really need to do that after every wicket. But still it is not something one should get so mad about) and openly calling him a maniac and unfit to lead a cricket team is crossing all sensible limits of decency (if Chappell has any)
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^^ Yes, Gavaskar was a special player. I am jealous you got to see him several times :)
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Funny about that video posted by GA, the first related video is a racist white pride song 
But youtube’s suggestions aside, it is sad to see Ian Chappell’s attitude towards Pakistan. He had built up a lot of cred in my eyes for some of his positive commentary before this.
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He cannot and simply cannot call him crazy. Ramiz and others should call him on that on live tv and say, well Ian, it takes a crazy to beat a dumbass. That will do it for him. Till they keep being Mr. nice to him, he will keep it on. Like I said in the post above, PCB should sue his pants off. And Afridi should silence him with a good innings in the next 3 games. He can. Its only a matter of time for him to catch on 
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As for Afridi's celebration when he first started doing it (2009 World T20) it looked good but lately he has been overdoing it IMO. Flintoff when he first started also used to raise his arms in the centre of the pitch in celebration, but then he would only do it after taking a crucial wicket. Afridi does not really need to do that after every wicket. For instance when he took his 4th wicket against Canada he started sprinting which was different to what he normally does and it looked good....then Wahab took a great catch to give Afridi his 5th wicket and he simply put his arms up as if to say it is all about me! It's not like anyone was running at him anyway as all the fielders were rushing towards Wahab Riaz. He kind of made himself look silly by just standing there and celebrating with his arms aloft. Not to mention the guy (Tyson Gordon) who got out is a mere tail-ender!
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Ian Chappel should go have a look at Harbhajan's celebrations, the guy celebrates a wicket at the tail end of an innings like he's won the world cup.
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As for Afridi's celebration when he first started doing it (2009 World T20) it looked good but lately he has been overdoing it IMO. Flintoff when he first started also used to raise his arms in the centre of the pitch in celebration, but then he would only do it after taking a crucial wicket. Afridi does not really need to do that after every wicket. For instance when he took his 4th wicket against Canada he started sprinting which was different to what he normally does and it looked good....then Wahab took a great catch to give Afridi his 5th wicket and he simply put his arms up as if to say it is all about me! It's not like anyone was running at him anyway as all the fielders were rushing towards Wahab Riaz. He kind of made himself look silly by just standing there and celebrating with his arms aloft. Not to mention the guy (Tyson Gordon) who got out is a mere tail-ender!
Sorry Asif bhai ....I dont agree with at u all now a bowler cant even raise his hands and so celebration on his own.....And ppl are now even criticizing Afridi for his celebration thats just too much.........
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Sorry i have to be rude here …Eveyone knows that Aussies n this joker Ian is a bloody racist and he again proved it once again…he better STFU
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Every Player has a unique way to celebrate their achievement......not everyone can be as kool and calm as Abdul Razzaq....:)
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As for Afridi's celebration when he first started doing it (2009 World T20) it looked good but lately he has been overdoing it IMO. Flintoff when he first started also used to raise his arms in the centre of the pitch in celebration, but then he would only do it after taking a crucial wicket. Afridi does not really need to do that after every wicket. For instance when he took his 4th wicket against Canada he started sprinting which was different to what he normally does and it looked good....then Wahab took a great catch to give Afridi his 5th wicket and he simply put his arms up as if to say it is all about me! It's not like anyone was running at him anyway as all the fielders were rushing towards Wahab Riaz. He kind of made himself look silly by just standing there and celebrating with his arms aloft. Not to mention the guy (Tyson Gordon) who got out is a mere tail-ender!
when anyone takes a wicket and celebrate it, i think they are celebrating it on the behalf of the entire team. so what if they over do it who cares. there are only 10 wickets to take, and all of those wickets' falling worth celebration, regardless of how it's done.
it think it is the MOST pointless criticism i have ever read.
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Sorry Asif bhai ....I dont agree with at u all now a bowler cant even raise his hands and so celebration on his own.....And ppl are now even criticizing Afridi for his celebration thats just too much.........
After dismissing a tail-end batsman!
My comment's not Afridi specific. If Shoaib Akhtar started doing the aeroplane thing after every wicket, I think it w'd be excessive. Thankfully he does n't.
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^ Well personally I also find that Afridi is going over board sometimes but Ian was not sitting in box to criticize celebrations and that too when he was doing it so pathetically. Australia also huddled before the start of Pakistani batting, Ian did not say a word about them....
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^ I dont care for Ravi Sastry (too bombastic). But Sunil Gavaskar and L Sivaramakrishnan are two commentators I enjoy listening to. The latter is low key. And Sunil Gavaskar always stands up to the western commentators when they unfairly criticize our players. I also like Rameez Raja. He is very polite, without being subservient to western commentators.
I especially like Gavaskar in matches involving West Indies, because he has a special affection for West Indies.
I have always found Gavaskar to be very pro-India in his commentary. That's a good thing to do, but not when you are a commentator.
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http://blog.dawn.com/2011/03/21/comment-is-free-sense-is-sacred/
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I think next time Australia is playing, Botham should be invited to comment alongside Chappell, that would be fun,
This is from Guardian: The Observer archive | The Guardian
It began in the bar of the Melbourne Hilton in 1977. Botham overheard Chappell slagging off England. He warned the ‘Aussie loudmouth’ three times to stop, then threw a punch, sending him sprawling off his bar stool and over a table of Aussie Rules footballers. When Chappell made one last jibe as he left, bulldog Botham chased him into the street; only the arrival of a police car prevented further violence. Over the years they continued to trade verbal punches. ‘He was a good cricketer, nothing special,’ Chappell said of Botham. ‘As a human being he is a nonentity,’ Botham responded. Chappell reopened hostilities in 1996 by claiming England’s greatest all-rounder had threatened to cut him ‘from ear to ear’ with a beer glass; Botham denied it.