29 November 2012, 07:21 PM IST
Don't get me wrong on this, but history has repeated itself. If in 1987, a gentleman, who served the game for 20 years, had called the then "wise men" a bunch of jokers, 25 years later things haven't changed much.
Today's "wise men", except Sandeep Patil, did not have an illustrious career to flaunt. In fact, "illustrious" is an understatement.
It is a wonder how Syed Saba Karim and Vikram Rathore can be selected to select the chosen few in a country bubbling with talent.
In the 34 ODIs that Saba Karim played, his average was a meagre 15.74. He played only one Test and scored 15 runs!!
On the other hand, the least said about Vikram Rathore, is better. Rathore's ODI batting average was 13.1 and his Test batting average was 15+.
In such a scenario, when the media reports such things like, "The board was not reading too much into Tendulkar's recent failures," one may wonder if Saba Karim and Rathore have the conviction to speak about others' failures when they themselves were fillers in the scheme of things!
Is it a deliberate move by the board to have people on the panel who have been thorough underperformers or sycophants, so that they can't question the capability or have the ability to judge players' worth?
Few months ago, when Mohinder (Jimmy) Amarnath was the north zone selector and was tipped to be the chief selector, he had said that MSD should step down as skipper. The rest is known. Jimmy was back in the archives.
I had earlier mentioned in this column and would like to reiterate please don't get me wrong, as in India "freedom" speech/thought of late, has become a bone of contention.
A board, an organisation or an institution, should always remain above individuals and should never the individual to set riders like "if you (selectors) think of dropping me you can.'
It is sad to see a GREAT player like Sachin Tendulkar undergo such a phase. It really hurts a diehard Sachin fan. But as they say everything must come to an end. This also reminds us of how graceful Sunil Gavaskar was who played on his own terms and had planned his retirement. Even in his last innings he had scored 96 in Bangalore, thus leaving enough room for speculation whether he should have continued for some more time.
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