Check the TOI report on this issue today. Again, they say that Munaf was physically fit enough to bowl full throttle, but he just decided not to, because of his mental blocks about fitness.
And Sanz, Sachin has only played whenever he himself is sure he is 100% fit. Otherwise, he is a guy who wouldn't play. Sanjay Manjrekar's article on this facet of Sachin's personality brought a lot of ire on the writer himself. I think it is just the fact that Sachin is not physically as strong as he used to be when he was younger. He has hurt his fingers before too, when dropping catches, but it never injured him as much as it did when he dropped Prince at Durban. Maybe the 17 years of international cricket is just taking its toll.
Secondly, Munaf is not the first guy to claim he is match fit and then not bowl at full throttle in a match. Zaheer and Nehra have done so in the past too. If the physio finds him 100% physically fit and the player himself doesn't feel any pain or discomfort in his injured area when bowling at full throttle, one would definitely assume he is fit enough to play. That is what Dravid, Chappell and Gloster did in this case. If you care to go through Munaf's records and his interviews, you will see that the guy has a major attitude problem reg. fitness and injuries. Dr. Joshi has examined him and has said that there is no injury and that it was just Munaf continued to be apprehensive more than anything else. I still don't think Gloster has done a bad job. We have had better physios than him, sure, but he is not doing a bad job, esp. right now. To keep blaming the captain, coach and physio for the player's fault is really childish, IMHO.
And Sanz, the reason I said "the whole team" was because according to reports all the main batsmen faced Munaf and then told the captain and coach and physio that he was bowling at good pace, almost full pace etc. And the fact that he is horrible on the field doesn't prove anything reg. his fitness, because he will be that horrible even when he is full fit.
