5 players who expressed anger at the team management after being dropped

Players represent their country and go out on the field and perform their best for the passion they have for the game. Just that, it seems to take an ugly face when some passionate players are dropped out for reasons the team management finds legitimate.

The decision of being dropped is too much to take for a player who has been there, playing the game with their heart and soul for a pretty long time. On not being able to gulp down the decision of not being part of the team he has been giving everything to, he vents anger at the management.

Recently, when the West Indies squad led by Jason Holder for the upcoming Test series against India was released, Denesh Ramdin was absent from the list. The cricketer expressed his anger and displeasure on the social media for being overlooked for the series that will be starting on July 21, in Antigua.

Here are five more Cricketers who chose to so the same when they were being dropped out of the team:

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1. Ricky Ponting

The former Australian skipper lost his cool after being dropped from the ODI team, in the middle of an ODI series in 2012. The player revealed his anger at being dropped in his autobiography. Selectors believed he was dropped for good, as he hardly scored 18 runs in the last series he played and he took five matches to reach that score.

The player, however, couldn't take the decision quite positively. Later in his book, 'At the Close of Play', he wrote, “Everything they [the selectors] said was building me up, how important I was, how they needed my help. You might have thought they were ringing me to thank me the next day, but instead they were telling me I was done. That still annoys me,”

Ricky Ponting retired from the game later that year after the Test series against South Africa at his home ground.

2. Sourav Ganguly

This was one of the most talked about controversies that happened and went on for pretty long time. It was in 2005 when Indian team management replaced John Wright as the coach and Greg Chappell took over. Former Indian skipper was then balancing the pressure of captaincy and run with the bat.

Chappell told him that the pressure of captaincy may be affecting his batting and the whole team was suffering because of the same.

After hitting a ton in the first Test, soon after the incident, he informed the media that he was asked to resign. The whole affair took a big turn as Chappell wrote an email to the board giving the details of the disagreements between both of them.

It took about a year for Ganguly to regain his spot after being dismissed as the captain of the Indian Cricket team and being dropped from ODIs.

3. Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen chose social media to vent his anger after being dropped from England's squad for the one-day internationals and Twenty20s against Pakistan, in 2010. After the list was released, he went on a rant on Twitter. He couldn't keep his cool after such decision made by the selectors.

The post was which was soon removed, read: "Yep. Done for rest of summer!! Man of the World Cup T20 and dropped from the T20 side too.. Its a f**k up!! Surrey have signed me for l ..." Possibly, the last word that he intended to write was "loan" which crossed the 140-character limit Twitter has. He later faced disciplinary actions for such remarks.

4. Michael Hussey

Hussey lost his calm when he was dropped from Australia's Cricket World Cup team in 2011. One of the top Aussie batsman who was initially selected for the World Cup despite the fact that he had ruptured a hamstring in a one-day, a month before it. It was later that the team management decided to give him time for recovery and he was replaced by Callum Ferguson in the 15-man squad.

The player revealed how shocking the decision was. He later told the media, "I tried to push my case forward. I said I would really push [to be fit] by the second game and definitely right by the third game but it's not a risk the selectors wanted to take. It's a pretty hard pill to swallow, that's for sure."

However, after he made an appearance for Western Australia a week later, he was called back to the team as Doug Bollinger had to go home due to an ankle injury.

5. Virender Sehwag

The legendary batsman admitted he was hurt after being dropped in the middle of the Test series, 2013 without any communication from the management. When he was asked about BCCI and team management's lack of communication, Sehwag told the media, "Absolutely, nobody called me from the team management, selectors or BCCI. I got to know about it from newspaper, that hurt me then but I am fine with it now".

It is difficult for a player to accept such decision when he himself is not ready for it. He told media, "When I got dropped, I was thinking that I'm a good player and can get back into the Indian team but I was still living in the mindset that I am an aggressive opener and can score runs but I did not realise that domestic cricket is totally different to international cricket and I was still playing in the same way".