Monday, April 9, 2007

Chappell’s report?

There were reports on news channels about how Chappell’s report would point fingers at the attitude of some senior players etc. The usually quiet SRT gave an interview to TOI with headliners like “It hurts if the coach questions our attitude.” Yuvraj Singh and gang gave their unnecessary support to SRT’s statement and all hell broke loose. Amidst all this hype and hoopla, Chappell quietly resigned citing “personal reasons” and is on his way to Australia. He has been offered an advisory role in the BCCI, Shastri is the new interim team manager, Venkatesh Prasad and Robin Singh are the bowling and fielding coaches respectively. Now that everything is hunky dory, I am not surprised that not a single soul has raised the question, “WHAT THE HECK WAS IN CHAPPELL’S REPORT ANYWAY?” The report hasn’t been made public (not to my knowledge) and there was no finger pointing involved. Go figure.