Coach - Guru

A very successful Director of Engineering at Sun once said introducing himself that he and his managers were like Coaches, werein they are going to see that all the Engineers have what they require but at the end of the day the Engineers are the ones who will have to do Innovation and product development.

If you look at some very successful pupils they would have had gurus who were tough and gave vision and made them work really hard to reach it, they would never give you shortcuts or would never accept anything but the best. Dronacharya, Chanakya, Parashurama are some of the greatest gurus from the mythology that i respect a lot.

So, coming to the Indian cricket team, do we have the guts to listen and digest the truth? We have too many superstars who cannot be obedient disciples as they have a feeling that they are bigger than the game, for them it looks the nation pride comes after their own personal gains.

Greg Chappell was a tough task master, the Chappell brothers are known for their frank opinions, they do not try to manage anyone and thats where Greg failed.

BCCI is the richest cricketing body in the world and I do not know why we should have Honororay posts for a rich club? So, if this mess has to be cleared firstly we will need a strong BCCI being run professionally and accountability needs to exist on every decision that they make, once this happens they can decide who should be the right coach who will get them the results they want with a vision and a tough task master who just sees his goal, thats when we can produce the Arjunas, Chandraguptas or the Sivajis...till then we will just be a mediocre side that will have a win % of 50 even after having 2-3 minnow teams added in the cricketing world :)