Dravid ignored the players I wanted: Mallya
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Posted online: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 18:44 hrs
Updated On: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 20:11 hrs
The internal bickering of the Bangalore Royal Challengers is out in the open with team owner Vijay Mallya revealing that he was at loggerheads with captain Rahul Dravid and the outfit's sacked CEO Charu Sharma over players' selection for the Indian Premier League.
Mallya made it clear that he was not happy with the squad, currently languishing at the bottom of the IPL points table, which has been ridiculed as a Test team in Twenty20 jersey.
The liquor baron said he had some players in mind but Dravid and Sharma completely ignored them and went ahead with their own plan.
"I had my own list (of players) but the fact is Rahul Dravid and Charu Sharma had their own list and at the end of the day, I decided to take the back seat," Mallya said.
"I was very tempted to bid for players whom I wanted but they held me back. Obviously things have turned out differently," he said.
He said Sharma backed Dravid to the hilt and even in the second auction, where the captain was not present, the former CEO discouraged Mallya to buy players of his choice.
"When Rahul Dravid was not present in the second auction, I wanted to acquire some players but Charu Sharma was very tentative about them. I mean I bought Misbah-ul Haq because I was determined to do it. There were other players I was discouraged about," Mallya said.
On sacking Sharma and replacing him with former Test player Brijesh Patel, Mallya said, "Charu Sharma was appointed CEO because I thought he understood cricket and he would add value to the team and the entire Royal Challengers initiative."
Mallya said Patel's appointment was necessitated because he was tired of complaints that the team did not have good practice facilities in its base in Bangalore.
"When I was questioning the performance of the team, all I was told was that practice facilities are bad, then I was told there was no bonding in the team...so everything was blamed on a particular event or lack of infrastructure.
"So I said to myself things can't continue like this and I brought Brijesh Patel. He is the honorable secretary of the KSCA (Karnataka State Cricket Association) and who better a person to provide match facilities and whatever else the team needs at its base in Bangalore. He understands cricket as well," Mallya explained.
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Comments
» Indians should boycott IPL as it has many Paki players.
Posted by n.krishna on 2008-05-15 12:05:34.86531+05:30
The sketch looks like that of a Paki cricketer. Along with the Paki cricketers their cooks and many ISI members as friends have arrived in India and that could be one of the reason for the Jaipur serial blasts. About 3 crore illegal mulsims from Bangladesh is present in India and many are in Jaipur. Congress government refused to deport them in spite of court orders. The fundmental reason is Nehru was a muslim grandson of a Delhi muslim policeman who escaped the British after the 1857. Indira was a muslim with a hindu name but also change to Islam officially in a London mosque to Maimoona Begum to marry Feroz Khan a muslim. Circumcised Rajiv and Sanjay were muslims and now it is a combination of christian muslim outputs in Rahul. One should read the one sided Indus water treaty written by Nehru for Pakis to understand the gravity of the problem.
» Tips forDravid
Posted by Gp Capt J Ramaswamy on 2008-05-14 22:22:37.198394+05:30
Dear Ra have as much experience in cricket,as much is your age.And hence it is my personal feeling that you watch your team play from outside to gain knowledge of your team and the game as such.Perhaps you are still in the 50-50 format of the game and willneed a good counselling from Mr Vijay Mallya to administer things,in an efficient way as is done by him in the corporate world.Better luck next time Mr Mallya.Yours Sicerely,Gp Capt J RamaswamyBangaloreI
» Indians should boycott IPL as it has many Paki players
Posted by n.krishna on 2008-05-14 00:11:29.500739+05:30
Indians should boycott IPL as it has many Paki players. They have come to India with their cooks and terrorist friends and may be the reason for the Jaipur serial blasts
» Vijay Mallya has got the Deva Gowda type mind
Posted by n.krishna on 2008-05-13 13:17:14.590916+05:30
Vijay Mallya gets in to things about which he has no idea. Vijay Mallya has got the Deva Gowda type mind and is not a good judge of people or for that matter on any other thing. I still remember his Dubai venture which was a lube oil recovery plant from used lube oil. He moved around in Dubai, and had a yacht which was much bigger than the one owned by sheikh Mohammad. Eventually his financially non viable venture was closed down and all the vehicles were put on auction by the Bank Standard and Chartered. It was a shameful thing for a guy from India. .
» Dravid ignored........, Mallya
Posted by Mander on 2008-05-13 12:42:59.582199+05:30
Mallya is very right in criticizing Dravid and Sharma. IPL is a corporate stuff and a lot of money has gone into it. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured in by business magnates on behalf of their companies and failure can not be justified. Personally I am happy that these so called stars get piece of their bosses' mind.These cricketers are expecting 5 to 10 fold money next year onward. That would mean top notch players getting in range of 5 to 10 million dollars. These stars would have to perform, be it Dravid,Ganguly or Sachin. There is no free lunch in the corporate world. Perform or get out. People with Aussie set of minds would survive. Good on you, Mallya for coming out in open.
» Mallya Needs to learn the basics of Business again
Posted by Rohit Bansal on 2008-05-13 12:11:20.935996+05:30
It is very disappointing to see these comments from Mallya. One does not wash his dirty linen in public.He is the owner of the team, and if he gave Dravid or Charu that responsibility, it is his problem. He simply cannot wash off his hands by accusing them. He should rather hold himself accountable for selecting wrong people for team selection.One can clearly see his frustration as he is not getting the return from the large investments he has made in the IPL to promote his liquor brands. But he is a businessman, and should take it as a bad investment and try to rectify the situation instead of bad mouthing his officials in public.And this is surely not going to do anything good to the morale of the team which is already at the pits.
» Dravid ignored the players I wanted: Mallya
Posted by John P Abraham on 2008-05-13 09:35:11.305133+05:30
VERY GOOD MALLYA - WELL DONEDravid is not used to responsibility / accountability. After his teams performance in the world cup, he did not bother to answer his critics nor took responsibility, he came out unscatched. Give him a good dose of corporate culture. Be good and throw him out for his performance.
» Dravid !!!!!
Posted by babubhai USA on 2008-05-13 09:24:33.917649+05:30
dear mr. Malya,even before the IPL matches started, I had written to binoy george,that BOTTOM team in the LIST would be Dravid's....!!!!! YOU CAN VERIFY IT...AND I AM SO FAR FROM THE COUNTRY ...!!!to us in the US,Dravid is a bookkeeper. he just ploys for his personal score, and team spirit ids not him.many matches are lost just because his lifting himself at the cost of other players,want to compare? think of Arjansingh hrd guy.BOTH ARE GOING THRU MANAPOUSE !!!!!!!IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME ASK, GANGULY, OR IRFAN PATHAN,OR SEHWAG, OR YUVRAJSINGH AND EVEN DHONI.......
» Mallya's Men
Posted by Sahadevan on 2008-05-13 09:01:06.576307+05:30
Both Charu Sharma and Rahul Dravid made a fool of the Booze King. Instead of Charu Mallya should have made Mandira Bedi as the CEO.
» mallya's outbursts
Posted by Indian on 2008-05-13 07:28:29.070129+05:30
Sir, instead of all this cricket , cheerleaders etc., PLEASE COME OUT OF THIS AND DONATE ALL THIS MONEY AS SCHOLARSHIP TO POOR STUDENTS. THEY NEED THIS HELP. AFTERALL TO WHO IS GOING TO BENEFIT OUT OF THIS CRICKET MATCHES !! Try to think of helping the poor students. This is the service which god definitely will appreciate. Forget about all this cricket competionsn. In the name of cricket we are wasting lot of time, our energy etc., but at the end nothing achieved except people have lost their precision time. Instead of wasting their time in watching TV for cricket play, let them help in working for social causes.
» Re
Posted by rahulsoman on 2008-06-04 12:05:40.895354+05:30
well if you think sports and entertainment are a waste of time and money, why dont u convert yourself into a saint and donate your life for the cause of millions and set an example. you should promise that you wil never marry nor seek entertainment of any form in your entire life and instead sacrifice your life for the cause of poor people that you were mentioning. it will be a really great thing. please do it.
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