Character Assassination

If newspaper reports are to be believed, the Indian team management is unhappy with Yuvraj's attitude. Now what that means is open to conjecture and leaves a lot to our imagination.

 

This is atypical of what goes on in Indian cricket. Malign a player in public with rumours and innuendos and then drop him from the team. During our last tour to South Africa, Sehwag suffered the same fate from which he is yet to recover.

 

If you are worried about a players attitude the sane thing is to talk to him one on one and then if necessary explain to the press the reasons for your actions. Here it is the other way around. They are yet to talk to Yuvraj but his attitude has already been discussed threadbare in public.

 

One had hoped that Kumble was above 'character assassinations'.