Why fuss over sms?

Greg’s SMS divides Indian cricket” reads the headline on Cricketnext.com.

Rajan Bala made public a sms he received from Greg Chappell. The sms and subsequent communication between Gerg Chappell and Rajan Bala bring forward following points:

Greg Chappell: “Even in the last selection meeting, I fought for youth. The senior players fought against it and the chairman went with them out of fear of media, if youth did not perform,”

“Karthik will be a very good batsman and by the way, he is a potential leader. You are also very right about Yuvi [Yuvraj Singh],”

Chappell: claimed that senior players in the side resisted the inclusion of younger players and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar sided with the seniors fearing a media backlash in case the young guns failed to fire.

Rajan Bala had written in his column, which Chappell apparently agreed with was this: “The problem with Yuvraj is that he believes he is a star when he is only a rising one.”

Chappell had also confided with Rajan Bala that “Suresh Raina is a must. But he was not wanted.”

What is so controvesial about this? Wasn’t Chappell happy with the team which was selected for WC07? In the interview to rediff he was clearly sounding happy about the team.

Well, Chappell may have expressed his interest in Raina and selectors certainly didn’t agree. So what? There are five selectors, a captain and a coach; a total of 7 persons sitting together to select 15 players. There would be 7 x 15 = 105 opinions. It is not human that all the 105 opinion are same. All 7 members cannot get 100% of what they want. So Chappell might had to compromise on Raina.

So what? In any case, Raina’s absence can never be sighted as a cause of the poor performance of the team. Even if Raina was in the team he would have warmed benches giving company to Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthick and Shrishant.

So why this fuss over leaked sms?Greg’s SMS divides Indian cricket” reads the headline on Cricketnext.com.

Rajan Bala made public a sms he received from Greg Chappell. The sms and subsequent communication between Gerg Chappell and Rajan Bala bring forward following points:

Greg Chappell: “Even in the last selection meeting, I fought for youth. The senior players fought against it and the chairman went with them out of fear of media, if youth did not perform,”

“Karthik will be a very good batsman and by the way, he is a potential leader. You are also very right about Yuvi [Yuvraj Singh],”

Chappell: claimed that senior players in the side resisted the inclusion of younger players and chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar sided with the seniors fearing a media backlash in case the young guns failed to fire.

Rajan Bala had written in his column, which Chappell apparently agreed with was this: “The problem with Yuvraj is that he believes he is a star when he is only a rising one.”

Chappell had also confided with Rajan Bala that “Suresh Raina is a must. But he was not wanted.”

What is so controvesial about this? Wasn’t Chappell happy with the team which was selected for WC07? In the interview to rediff he was clearly sounding happy about the team.

Well, Chappell may have expressed his interest in Raina and selectors certainly didn’t agree. So what? There are five selectors, a captain and a coach; a total of 7 persons sitting together to select 15 players. There would be 7 x 15 = 105 opinions. It is not human that all the 105 opinion are same. All 7 members cannot get 100% of what they want. So Chappell might had to compromise on Raina.

So what? In any case, Raina’s absence can never be sighted as a cause of the poor performance of the team. Even if Raina was in the team he would have warmed benches giving company to Irfan Pathan, Dinesh Karthick and Shrishant.

So why this fuss over leaked sms?