Bangalore Royal Challengers hire Mandira Bedi as coach
May 8, 2008 by Sandeep R
Wouldn’t that be great to see on the news channels as breaking news? The whimsical show-off Dr.Vijay Mallya is capable of doing such antics with the god forsaken Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Having Rahul Dravid as an icon player for a Twenty20 tournament, buying aged ’star players of the yesteryears’ ignored by the cricket boards of their countries at exorbitant price (read Jacques Kallis), with the ‘first ladies of American football‘ showing off their talents (and assets) and serving liquor in the stands was he expecting to trash other teams in a game cricket? Why does he fire the sober looking sane and not-so-pretty guy in the whimsical Vijay Mallya’s stable, Charu Sharma? Probably he wanted to get Yana Gupta, or maybe Negar Khan as the CEO of the Royal Challengers team, only saved by sane decision to have Brijesh Patel when he was not so high on RC.
When you are in it purely for business, why would you wanna make a mockery of the esteemed sports personalities and commentators like Venkatesh Prasad and Charu Sharma? No doubt Venkatesh Prasad has done an excellent job as a bowling coach for the Indian side, grooming talented youngsters like Praveen Kumar and Ishant Sharma in the tour of Australia. Vijay Mallya thinks he is not good enough to coach the bunch of test-players lead by ever so slow, run-a-hundred-ball getter Rahul Dravid. Charu Sharma is a former national diving champion, and a good commentator. If he wasn’t good enough for you, why hire him in the first place?
A team performs as the captain leads. This has been proven by the dazzling Delhi Daredevils‘ skipper Virender Sehwag. So has Shane Warne with a bunch of mediocre players. The attitude of a leader gives a much needed morale boost for the team, and Rahul Dravid is not able provide that in T20 games. No doubt Dravid is a class player with technically perfect shots but T20 is not the arena for showcasing such hard-to-get talents. T20 is for the Dhonis and Afridis, where the bat speed matters more than the technique. VVS Laxman is another class player who fails to lead the team to success with worlds best hard-hitting star cricketers.
If BCCI would permit, Mallya would want to sport a team of 11 bikini clad Kingfisher calender swimsuit models instead of cricketers but unfortunately this is suppose to be “cricket”. Hope the game remains and not become entirely business, that too in the hands of crazy liquor morons.
Perhaps it was the not so bright Charu sharma who recommended the acquisition of the aging Test match cricketeers , to the chairman Of Royal challengers therefore the sacking !
i think the selection was by the icon player Rahul Dravid who picked the players in the auction, and asked Mallya ‘Do you want stars or performers?’
Bangalore RC have set a few records in this tournament. They started off the tournament with a low score (which still remains the least in the tournament), and then went on to achieve the feat of 5 ducks in an innings. They have consistenly retained the first place in the points table (ascending wise). Hats of Mr. Mallya ! And with still 7 more games to go, they dont show any change in their attitude or gameplan. That makes me sad :-(
They have set a few records alright. I think they are right on course to win the Kingfisher Fair Play award.
Guess: “Nice guys finish last.” :P
ROFL !! :D
Filled with sarcasm, awesome!!
Initially I thought BRC was actually a good team. You’re right when you say T20 is for Dhonis and Afridis. Dravid is good, but only for ODIs. Bangalore team is boring!
“Crazy Liquor Moron”…..ahem.
Btw, do you do tags ?? I’ve tagged you. Consider it.
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I hope the players on the team don the cheerleader outfits and start dancing and the women go and play the match!! Then at least, they would win a few matches! :D
@Radhesh
Start supporting their cheerleaders, they’re doing their job well :P
@Vivek
Where did you get that quote from? :P
@Priya
Will surely consider tagging you
@Nikhil
Who would you wanna watch then?? Cheerleaders or the “players”? :P
yawn yawn
:)
like i havent had enough of this on national tv already !
Way to Go Meghana !! Yohooooooooo!!
lol :)
hmm…i think he understands that this cricket…he also said that he wasn’t allowed to buy players he wanted to because the others didn’t allow him to…
I would watch the former and watch the latter watch the former! :D
I watch the BRC just to see Katrina cheering them. Akshay - Grrrrrrrr!!!
Charu - no good
Dravid - T20, you got to be kiddin’ me?
Mallaya - Cricket??!!!
Overall, I have no comments! I second Meghana’s comments
~RJ
http://the-connexion.blogspot.com
Dravid surprised me against Jaipur.
as they say too little too late :)