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Why is Dhoni still playing T20s for India?


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No other team would give a 10 year long rope to a T20 cricketer who has a grand total of ONE T20 half century in his whole career and has a career strike rate of less than 125 when batting in the lower order below #5. Other teams have monsters such as Maxwell, Buttler, Miller, Russell etc. in their lower order whereas we have the great "Thala" who bats at a snails pace at a strike rate of 100 or less. :wall: 

Dhoni will only slog in the last over (If he survives that long :hysterical:) which will bring his overall strike rate in that innings to 120-125 which is mediocre for a lower order hitter. We have lost countless T20 games due to Dhoni trying to hit big only in the final over instead accelerating a bit earlier and carrying that momentum to the end.

Even Dhoni Bhakts will know that he has won less than 5 T20 matches for Team India in his whole career and does not deserve a place in the side in all fairness. My question is that how can someone as bad as this in T20 cricket still play for the national team, let alone for 10 years! :facepalm: 

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16 minutes ago, SecondSlip said:

No other team would give a 10 year long rope to a T20 cricketer who has a grand total of ONE T20 half century in his whole career and has a career strike rate of less than 125 when batting in the lower order below #5. Other teams have monsters such as Maxwell, Buttler, Miller, Russell etc. in their lower order whereas we have the great "Thala" who bats at a snails pace at a strike rate of 100 or less. :wall: 

Dhoni will only slog in the last over (If he survives that long :hysterical:) which will bring his overall strike rate in that innings to 120-125 which is mediocre for a lower order hitter. We have lost countless T20 games due to Dhoni trying to hit big only in the final over instead accelerating a bit earlier and carrying that momentum to the end.

Even Dhoni Bhakts will know that he has won less than 5 T20 matches for Team India in his whole career and does not deserve a place in the side in all fairness. My question is that how can someone as bad as this in T20 cricket still play for the national team, let alone for 10 years! :facepalm: 

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To answer the question here,

 

Its a combination of simple economics and ego. On the economics side, Dhoni knows very well that the IPL money he makes is directly proportional to him being in the first choice Indian team. As a result, he will attempt to delay T20 retirement as long as sustainable. 

 

The second aspect is ego. He still believes that whatever little T20 skill he had when he was younger is still very much there. And he wants to prove that point. Sadly, in his personal attempt to prove that point, we are going to lose many matches and deny a younger player the chances that he needs at this level. 

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2 minutes ago, maniac said:

1)Dhoni is good at stumpings pretty much how every batsman gets out in cricket.

2)He advices Virat with things like "if he hits a cover drive, put a fielder in the covers" "if he hits straight put fielders on long off,long on etc" and plenty such out of the box gems.

3)He encourages slip fielders by letting them take initiative while catching.

4)He encourages tailenders by "farming" strike

5)He tops yo yo tests

6)He doesn't show emotions

7)He "consolidates"

8)He "finishes"games where top order scores 90% of the runs given the rrr is less than 5 rpo(can't ignore this important facet)

9) Reads the game beautifully by ensuring a notout ...When Dhoni is estabilised at the crease the new batsman takes all the risks as Dhoni has to bat through the innings but when Dhoni is new at the crease the other batsman has to take risks because that batsman is well established :hail: @Austin 3:!6

10)He has amazing flexibility...look at those lunges...who doesn't love a man who can spread his legs like that.

 

Anything else I am missing?

11) You do not have a brother or a son who can run as fast as Dhoni. 

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Kapil Dev was dropped in 1994 because his performances were down hill

 

It is 23 years since and we have not had anyone replace him.(Pandya has a long way to go before he can be spoken in the same vein as Kapil. We are excited only about the potential still)

 

but Indian cricket moved on and on its way unearthed some ATGs and match winners.

 

I don't get this fear that what if we drop Dhoni??? There is no alternative etc. pure bs

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Tendulkar, Dravid etc weren't part of Indian team's T20 setup but still played IPL and had respectable numbers. Anil Kumble was retired from all cricket and still led his team to the finals of IPL in 2009. Dhoni should stop worrying about his image and just step aside from T20. It will actually be a good PR move for him and boost his brand value. 

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2 hours ago, maniac said:

Kapil Dev was dropped in 1994 because his performances were down hill

 

It is 23 years since and we have not had anyone replace him.(Pandya has a long way to go before he can be spoken in the same vein as Kapil. We are excited only about the potential still)

 

but Indian cricket moved on and on its way unearthed some ATGs and match winners.

 

I don't get this fear that what if we drop Dhoni??? There is no alternative etc. pure bs

MSK Prasad, our chief selector is as meek as a mouse. He couldn't even plain and simple state that Ashwin and Jadeja were dropped from LOI teams. He "sugar coated" it as them being rested. I hope he finally grows some balls and just drops Dhoni from the squad and calls it as it is.

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11 minutes ago, Texan said:

MSK Prasad, our chief selector is as meek as a mouse. He couldn't even plain and simple state that Ashwin and Jadeja were dropped from LOI teams. He "sugar coated" it as them being rested. I hope he finally grows some balls and just drops Dhoni from the squad and calls it as it is.

Based on how this selection committee has been working..The problem is with a spot opening up for Dhoni Will result in the recall of one of the following-Yuvraj,Gambhir,Raina,Uthappa or Parthiv Patel saying that we need to fill the void of experience with experience....we have Karthik and Nehra in our squad in 2017 ffs.

 

Then the Dhoni fans can rub it in saying see we told ya and we might ponder may be Dhoni wasn't that bad

 

This selection Committee sucks 

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TBH I am not surprised why Dhoni can't never be dropped from T20

 

go check the official Indian cricket team Facebook page and check the likes and shares Dhoni gets and compare it to players like Kohli

 

Dhoni always get atleast 1and half times the likes and share than Kohli. This is when Dhoni is faking every match and Kohli is scoring and winning India matches right left and centre. 

 

Who in the world would have guts to drop Dhoni then. We all know what happened, when MSK Prasad made a statement on Dhoni not being a sure short on 2019 World Cup. Prasads effigies were burnt, and famous indian Facebook pages like Rajnjkant vs CID etc etc had gifs asking for MSK Prasads head. 

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4 hours ago, rahulrulezz said:

TBH I am not surprised why Dhoni can't never be dropped from T20

 

go check the official Indian cricket team Facebook page and check the likes and shares Dhoni gets and compare it to players like Kohli

 

Dhoni always get atleast 1and half times the likes and share than Kohli. This is when Dhoni is faking every match and Kohli is scoring and winning India matches right left and centre. 

 

Who in the world would have guts to drop Dhoni then. We all know what happened, when MSK Prasad made a statement on Dhoni not being a sure short on 2019 World Cup. Prasads effigies were burnt, and famous indian Facebook pages like Rajnjkant vs CID etc etc had gifs asking for MSK Prasads head. 

Poor msk prasad got rick rolled after MS showing him his aukat right away next series. He ended up saying some single leg story about ind vs pak in t20 WC:phehe:to please fans then people calmed down a bit. He shouldn't be talking about any player in general when he has a average of 11 and 14 in 2 formats as a player. What the hell did he even do to be a selector. :Giggity:

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