Infight in Indian dressing room?
PERTH: Buoyed up by back-to-back Test match victories against India, Australian media is preoccupied in boosting the image of their national squad, which has only been regarded as ordinary and one which is going through a transition phase.
Australia newspaper Herald Sun reports that Virender Sehwag, is causing a rift in the dressing room and is the one who is polarising opinion. It speaks of a great financial divide between seniors and juniors in the team and that junior players are too afraid to express their views in team meetings.
According the article, there is apparently a section of the team who feel Sehwag should be captain instead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni 'while his detractors are aghast at the lack of fight he has shown in several innings - including his meek second-innings surrender in Sydney when he displayed the resilience of a soggy tissue to waft an airy cut to Dave Warner from the eighth ball he faced.'
The newspaper goes on to add that former Indian coach Greg Chappell noted during his tenure 'team meetings were shackled by a hierarchical system which often made young players too timid to express their thoughts.'
Australia's pace bowlers, Ryan Harris also declared that Indians are fighting among themselves and the two emphatic defeats thus far, made them to fall apart.
PERTH: Buoyed up by back-to-back Test match victories against India, Australian media is preoccupied in boosting the image of their national squad, which has only been regarded as ordinary and one which is going through a transition phase.
Australia newspaper Herald Sun reports that Virender Sehwag, is causing a rift in the dressing room and is the one who is polarising opinion. It speaks of a great financial divide between seniors and juniors in the team and that junior players are too afraid to express their views in team meetings.
According the article, there is apparently a section of the team who feel Sehwag should be captain instead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni 'while his detractors are aghast at the lack of fight he has shown in several innings - including his meek second-innings surrender in Sydney when he displayed the resilience of a soggy tissue to waft an airy cut to Dave Warner from the eighth ball he faced.'
The newspaper goes on to add that former Indian coach Greg Chappell noted during his tenure 'team meetings were shackled by a hierarchical system which often made young players too timid to express their thoughts.'
Australia's pace bowlers, Ryan Harris also declared that Indians are fighting among themselves and the two emphatic defeats thus far, made them to fall apart.
News Posted: 10 January, 2012
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