Bangalore: The Indian cricket team coach, Greg Chappell, on Wednesday slammed sections of the media and public who put the home outfit in a "negative" light. "I am appalled at the amount of negatives thats put out there in the marketplace about this Indian cricket team," the 56-year-old former Australian captain, who took charge of the Indian team last month, commented in respose to a question. The question - whether India has the "killer instinct" like the Aussies - annoyed the batting great. "You keep asking me this question; many members of  the media keep asking me this question," he said. "They (Indian team) have been a very successful team and they will continue to be a very successful team." Chappell added: "In the meantime, they have some good days and bad days. We have to accept that as it happens at this level, especially in one-day cricket." Recalling that Australia had recently lost a one-dayer to Bangladesh, he posed a question: "Does that mean that Australia has fallen off planet ?...no, it didn't. It meant that they had a bad day." Chappell said he received a number of calls (after Australia lost to Bangladesh) asking him whether he was worried about the way Australia is going. "Quite frankly, I am not (worried); I am more worried about the way the Indian team is going," he remarked. "One bad day, one bad week, one bad month, one bad series is not the end of the world. But what it might mean is we have to do some work in certain areas to get better." Chappell said he is not "particularly interested" in negative comments that he keep getting from the media and others about the Indian team of the past or the Indian team of the present. "I am more worried about what we are going to do in the future to ensure that we get the best and most consistent performance," he said.

Team India imparted with 'de Bono' skillsBy ALok Gupta Bangalore: India's top 
cricketers were imparted the `Bono method to enhance creativity and thinking 
skills aimed at bettering their performance on the ground, as a week-long 
cricket-skills specific camp commenced on Wednesday. Indian probables in full 
strength - 36 in all - attended a two-and-a-half hour workshop at a plush 
Bangalore hotel that also focused on team building, conducted by Shiva  Subramaniam, who is the head of creativity and innovation division at TCS. 
Subramaniam, a master-trainer of the method, later told reporters that the Bono 
method is essentially "tools for thinking", adding, using the method, output of 
thinking becomes more elegant and organised. It relates to how using "six 
thinking hats and lateral thinking (invented by Edward de Bono)," one can 
enhance confidence in oneself and be a better thinker and creative person," he 
said. "I felt it was a tool that can add value to what we were doing," coach 
Greg Chappell said. "If we have to take this team to another level and fulfill 
its potential, I think we need to look at a whole range of issues differently 
from the way we would normally look at them." Meanwhile, Team India captain 
Sourav Ganguly, Dinesh Mongia, Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman and Murali Kartik, who had missed the physical fitness and conditioning camp, joined 31 others who are already stationed here. Sachin Tendulkar has also arrived here for interactions with Chappell and physio John Gloster.

Dravid to lead ODI team
Rahul Dravid is set to captain India in the tri-series in Sri Lanka this month-
end. Justice Albie Sachs, the man who will decide on whether the process by 
which Sourav Ganguly was banned is valid or not, is not going to decide the case by the time the selection committee meets in Bangalore on July 18. Selection committee sources said on Thursday night that as they had received no instructions from the BCCI, Ganguly could not be picked and, therefore, Dravid would lead. BCCI sources confirmed no instructions had been given to the selectors to either delay the selection process or pick Ganguly provisionally.

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