MookerjeeAditya
Member
When Mr. Patil is seen as a selector, I feel, that the selectors who chose the 1983 World Cup Team, did the nation an act, which I feel I owe gratitude. The players, excluding Gavaskar, seemed to be just people, who happened to play Cricket. I must now, add that all these people were nice, good people, and being in the Indian Team, made them my role models. Being in the Indian Team, made them great. I would have really appreciated them as people, anyway, and greatly. The dilemma for me is, if a person like Srikkanth, would drop me from the Indian Cricket Team, or not select me, I would, firstly, be disillusioned, and then, I would perhaps not play, not because I minded not being selected. It is perfect, that a member of the B. C. C. I. be a selector. I don't know, who selected the team which won the World Cup. I wouldn't have minded the team being selected, if I was a player who might also have been considered for selection, then. Do these people, I mean the 1983 team, consider themselves Indian, today, is what I want to know. They were normal nice people, who were seen to be the Indian Team. This made them great, being in the team. I wouldn't want to be a selector, if I was them. The way I see it, every and any Indian was them. I don't like the situation, where being an Indian, is superseded by the consideration that being in the Cricket team is important.
