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Now, Board wants Sachin to shut up

Sachin now faces the brunt for rebutting the �mafia� label pinned to senior Indian cricketers by the coach of the vanquished team. The cricket board has shown little prudence in serving on him and Yuvraj Singh notice for talking to media.

CJ: Anil Gulati

Sun, Apr 08, 2007 00:00:00 IST

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THE BCCI HAS decided to serve notice to Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh for speaking to the media. This is unfair, to say the least against Sachin Tendulkar who has never, never in the past expressed his outrage on any cricketing matter. If he has done so now, it cannot be without a valid reason. He has always shown composure and maturity and he isn’t a loudmouth to deserve this treatment from the BCCI for speaking out after the traumatic World Cup trip. Instead of penalizing him, the board must look deeper into the points raised by him in the interview to the Times of India.

Just because he was Sachin, media picked it up and it became such a big issue. With media debates and counter-arguments, it became bigger. Rather than going unofficial or off the record, he spoke on record which was fair. He did not criticize anyone; rather defended himself. Even if anyone in his place gets to hear blames and words like “mafia” it would have hurt. To add to that, when one reads statements like “it was attitude of senior players which resulted in a shocking debacle in the World Cup” one is bound to react. It was rubbing salt over a wound. It must have hurt him more because he like other cricketers has given life to cricket. Sachin and all other senior players had a right to defend themselves.

He could have been more aggressive, but wasn’t. He did not speak anything which was internal or happened in the dressing room. He only said that he is shattered beyond words and no coach has had ever said this for him, which is true. He accepted the loss and his bad performance.

It was a game, team played badly and they lost, which all of them, including us, feel bad about. There needs to be an evaluation and BCCI has now gone in for performance-oriented compensation, probably to push performance — though this is also debateable — but serving notice on him is a wrong decision and a harsh one.

Sachin carries a huge weight of expectation of Indian public, and with huge media attention it gets compounded. No individual can manage the weight he carries on him when he goes onto the filed. Sachin is Sachin. He has given Indian cricket a lot. Not only in the forms of records, but to the team. How can we forget the same? No doubt the team has failed and even he too has not come up to the expectations. But you can’t just discount what he has done for Indian cricket and give him notice for speaking up. India is a democracy. Board members and coach can unofficially speak to media. But when he does, it becomes “punishable crime”. This is undemocratic.

Ravi Shastri takes over as the manager of the team. Hopefully, he will remember the 1992 debacle and maybe understands what Sachin is going through, which he should as he has also mentored him in his early years.

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	Lets pray Sachin silence his critics more with the batting than bragging. Its not only Sachin there are many cricketers who have given their life and soul for the Indian cricket and some of them are paupers. Lets not forget this while praising Sachin. IF we started to judge by the scale who is given more life and soul to the Indian cricket then Sachin may not be topping the rank and may not be the only one in the list. All this criticisim is becoz everone wishes to see Sachin dominate the bowling attach and once again be the linchpin in the India's win in batting as well as bowling. Lets wish Sachin the resilence needed in the hour of crisis to come back strongly and be gem in the crown of Indian cricket.
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	A shrill cry of a lone crusader for Sachin Duck-tul-kar.
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	something for sp:forget cricket sp, do u have the guts to claim that you have even 10% of the dedication to your own job.. 10% of what Sachin has, before you sit here n' critize.
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How do you know sachin has given 100 % dedication. Nobody knows....unless you were in judging position. So was Chappell. He judged him. He has nothing against him. We have proof that the average of sachin is just around 14 leaving the games played in India.

Joel M | 10 April 2007

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