Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

Sunil Gavaskar has made idiotic comments publicly in his newspaper column - that Ajit Agarkar and Saurav Ganguly have been dropped from the second test against Pakistan because they are not part of the inner circle. Cleverly he doesn't say who's inner circle, but it seems obvious that its Chappell's inner circle he's talking about.

Ajit Agarkar has got the maximum number of chances in Indian cricket, more than every other player and if he still hasn't managed to cement his place in the Indian test side it means that no amount of being in anyone's inner circle is going to do him any good. Gavaskar's comments seem to be coloured by sympathies towards a fellow Mumbai player who's he's related to. There cannot be any cricketing reasons for his asinine statements. Gavaskar also shows his antipathy towards Chapell and Chapell's "non-performers need to go" stand. Gavaskar would make an awful coach and his jealousy looks apparent.

Ganguly was also axed probably because he refused to open in the Lahore test forcing Rahul Dravid to come out and open instead. Not wanting to shoulder responsibility for opening the innings probably counted against him as also the fact that India needed a fifth bowler in order to get all the Pakistanis out.

Gavaskar seems to be prone to making idiotic comments from time to time and this tendency seems to be getting more and more common.