Truth about Indian Cricket

Speaking in an interview to the CNN-IBN programme, the former Indian captain, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi has said :

• What Greg Chappell had in mind for Indian cricket was very good and important and that it was “a shame that he had to leave in 22 months."
  
  
• Chappell tried to do what he was called here for – to help build a team, rather than focus on individual brilliance. He failed in this attempt because of the methods he adopted!
  
  
• it doesn't matter whether you are Sachin Tendulkar, or you want to open or you want to bat at number 4। You go where the team, or the coach thinks, or the captain thinks that you should go।
  
• we make the better players into icons, into demi-Gods, and then we find it very difficult to give them the sack।Who is going to sack Sachin Tendulkar ...
  
• You have to be strong enough and not care so much about what the public thinks, or the public feels, if you want to get rid of some of the senior players।
  
• I object to any contract is where the sponsor says that the longer you stay at the crease, the more we will pay you।
  
• If such a contract does exist, I think it's disturbing and I am very surprised that any player has signed it... I think I would take some serious action against the player.
  
• I think you have to grow up। I think if you are playing a grown up game you should be grown-up enough to accept the kind of adulation that you will get in this country, and the way they pull you down also.It is not a children's game, it's a Man's Game. It is sad that some people can't cope with it. One way of success in cricket in this country is to be able to cope with the pressure.
  
• I think in a Test series the best team should go। But the best team for India is not necessarily some of the senior players.
  
  
• Finally, speaking about the team that is going to be sent to Bangladesh, Pataudi said that it might be a good chance to “blood (young) people” and that “some of the seniors” might not be the best bet to be picked up for a Test Series. He also said that he will be a “little surprised” if India lost to Bangladesh again
  
  
• .Most of us will be a little surprised if it beat India again - consistently, should I say. I think it's a good time to blood people also, but the people who are being blooded, have to have some talent also.

complete Interview