Wow, some serious jealously you seem to have there. I guess it's ridiculous to assume that this man might have some semblance of understanding about what is happening with the Indian players? At, least as far as I'm aware he's probably spoken to one more recently than you have, an almost certainly coached one... As usual you ignored the main points in my post, picked what you fancied, and made your answer around that.
I specifically said he does detrimental damage to his overlying points when he attempts to play, as Sami astutely points out, an 'amateur anthropologist' with very little accuracy and almost certainly very little knowledge. However, one thing Greg does understand, as you have clearly highlighted yourself, is how to win on a cricket pitch. He almost certainly would not have called back Ian Bell for example
Yet again, he didn't cheat, he played within the rules, but he played to win. It is illegal because of him, not when he did it. Someone else would eventually have done the same thing (probably the next Aussie captain, or the one after that haha), so at least it was dealt with. Some might say it was actually quite intelligent, some that it ruined the game. Well, cricket survived, so I'd suggest the only people still moaning about it are just bitter about something.
He was a bad coach for India, but a successful player, and apparently good enough to get hired in the first place (or was that just for book sales too?).
The main points though, that exclude the anthropological gibberish (also can be grouped alongside the crap that people spout about India not having the natural whatever to produce fast bowlers, think that was Zaheer Khan who said that, but yeah, probably just trying to sell a book) are actually quite reasonable. You yourself mentioned in-fighting in the dressing room, well he aludes to that, and what may have caused it. He is correct that Dhoni is the most overworked cricketer in the world. That needs to change too, BCCI need to look after their players better, the fans can not complain about overworked players for what was a massive series for the top spot in the ICC Test rankings. Nor can you dismiss it afterwards because apparently a terrible Windies team took it all out of you all. Aww, didums. Almost sounds like your just constantly making excuses without ever applying anything approaching an analytical slant to anything.
Those things are genuine issues, that you consistently refuse to look at in anything resembling an analytical manner. Instead, your response is to just abuse the man making comments. You have no reasoned response, no intelligent arguments, merely your own half-baked opinions formed on BCCI press releases and fantastical notions. Yet when a man who worked with these players first hand, and has almost certainly been in and around some incredibly driven and focusses dressing rooms, I expect he probably has at least something resembling a point?
No?
Ah well. Stupid Australians, trying to drum up their book sales! Serves them right, it's not like anyone in Australia can actually read
