I have been pretty much silent on all those BCCI/GC/SG posts until now. I recently read someone saying that GC seems to be talking too much and I thought I’d put my thoughts on it too.

We are certainly making SG a big scapegoat in this whole situation and most likely it could be a political chess game between JD and Pawar. But GC seems to care too much about the media and he seems to be on a certain agenda.

How else can you explain 1) His long email right after a test series win, criticising the captain, and more importantly, 2) leaking of the same to the media.

Also, how else can you explain his constant biting of the bait offered by the media? The media is of course looking for more spice and this guy keeps offering it.

Don’t tell me GC has no idea about how passionate the Indian media (and possibly the rest of the cricketing world too) is about Indian cricket team. Don’t tell me he does not know that whatever statement(s) he makes are going to be completely chopped up and used as sound bytes in bits and pieces in various media circles. Don’t tell me he does not realize that there are some media persons who will not give up the trail that will ‘prove’ something ‘that they already knew’ - the SG is no-good and is using his power and connections with JD to stay in the team.

He knows all that. He has to.

Then why is he talking so much? There has to be a puppet master pulling the strings behind the stage. Who is this puppet master?

The one thing (and perhaps the ONLY thing) that bothers me in reading so much so far, is that SG seems to be creating factions in the team. I just cannot see that happening with guys like RD and Kaif and all that. I can see how Kumble may feel snubbed and he may look for succumbing to a ‘camp’ and on the other hand Harbajan, Nehra and Zaheer falling likewise to the ‘other camp’. But the report that I read, said Dravid is actually leading the opposite camp!

Come on. If Dravid is what is made out of him (I don’t know him personally or even with 2 degrees of separation), this good guy who works for the team and nothing but the team, I cannot see how he could form a camp and start creating factions in the team. I truly believe that it is a story created by someone just for the media to add fuel to a somewhat mild fire.

We have to ignore this b.s. and come to the team’s support. SG has truly done nothing wrong. The media has come out against him and he is most likely being made a sacrificial pawn in the chess game between Dalmiya and the world. It would be sad if he is let go.