debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray) (02/02/85)
> One wonders when (if ever) the managers of Indian Cricket will learn > to handle such personal quabblings without ruining the performance of the > team. > I dare say personal squabbles aren't unique to _Indian_ teams. If we could only keep petty politics out of our sports! The spectacle over Kapil Dev's omission in the recent test at Calcutta (I forget the name of the bigwig who proposed K.D. be retained as the 15th. member of the team, and backed off only when most of the board of selectors threatened to resign!) would've been funny if it hadn't been so embarrassing. The same regionalism pervades the hockey scene. And we're treated to the sight of gifted athletes like P.T.Usha and Sriram Singh unable to compete in international meets for lack of funds while managers and assorted fat cats wangle series after series of "phoren" tours for themselves! (I guess I'd better stop before I have to consign this to net.flame :-) -- Saumya Debray SUNY at Stony Brook uucp: {allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax} !sbcs!debray CSNet: debray@sbcs