{"id":5733,"date":"2007-04-06T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2007-04-06T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T01:21:00","slug":"the-dance-of-a-headless-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-dance-of-a-headless-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"The dance of a headless chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t be taken in by all the activity that’s going on around Indian cricket. You’ll see movement all right, but it’s all headed nowhere.<\/p>\n

PS<\/b>: Of the glut of pieces out there on the subject, I recommend you read “The Real Culprits<\/a>” by S Rajesh. It lays bare India’s shortcomings on the field of play. As for the dramas of the dressing room, we’ll never have the full story, though different versions of events will no doubt emerge. (You get a sense of Greg Chappell’s version of events here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Ian Chappell’s broadside<\/a> against Sachin Tendulkar the other day now becomes explicable. Heh.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, watch the dance if it entertains you. I’m not throwing any more grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t be taken in by all the activity that’s going on around Indian cricket. You’ll see movement all right, but it’s all headed nowhere.<\/p>\n

PS<\/b>: Of the glut of pieces out there on the subject, I recommend you read “The Real Culprits<\/a>” by S Rajesh. It lays bare India’s shortcomings on the field of play. As for the dramas of the dressing room, we’ll never have the full story, though different versions of events will no doubt emerge. (You get a sense of Greg Chappell’s version of events here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Ian Chappell’s broadside<\/a> against Sachin Tendulkar the other day now becomes explicable. Heh.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, watch the dance if it entertains you. I’m not throwing any more grains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe dance of a headless chicken - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-dance-of-a-headless-chicken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The dance of a headless chicken - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Don’t be taken in by all the activity that’s going on around Indian cricket. You’ll see movement all right, but it’s all headed nowhere. 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