Dhoni is a poor test match player!

[Sachin=GOD]

:woah: Outy defending Dhoni, ****ing unbelievable. Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

he posted that 5 years ago :giggle:

[The Outsider]

He already toured Eng and Aus till then. Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

He did decently till then. Perhaps because he was not the captain and his position behind the stumps was being dictated by Dravid and Kumble.

[Ram]

^ You don't need a number 7 to average that high when playing at home where the top order and tail also raise their game. It's in away conditions that runs are needed more from the number 7 and there the difference between Dhoni and someone like Saha is marginal. Saha will also give you a much better wicket keeper' date=' strengthening your slip cordon.[/quote'] You can make a case for a better replacement for MSD at no.7, but you lose me when I hear you mention someone like Saha.

[The Outsider]

You can make a case for a better replacement for MSD at no.7' date=' but you lose me when I hear you mention someone like Saha.[/quote'] Saha is a better keeper than Dhoni and how much worse will he do as a batsman than Dhoni has in places like South Africa? Sure, he won't be able to conjure innings like Dhoni's batting at home or on pattas, but it is a trade off.

[Sidhoni]

^ You don't need a number 7 to average that high when playing at home where the top order and tail also raise their game. It's in away conditions that runs are needed more from the number 7 and there the difference between Dhoni and someone like Saha is marginal. Saha will also give you a much better wicket keeper' date=' strengthening your slip cordon.[/quote'] No way is Saha the better keeper from whatever I've seen. And how will he strengthen the slip cordon? Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

[Sidhoni]

He is not delusive like some other haters out here.

Yeah right. Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

[Cricketics]

^ You don't need a number 7 to average that high when playing at home where the top order and tail also raise their game. It's in away conditions that runs are needed more from the number 7 and there the difference between Dhoni and someone like Saha is marginal. Saha will also give you a much better wicket keeper' date=' strengthening your slip cordon.[/quote'] He might, I can't but it's hard to allow a seperate wicket keeper come in to the team when we have a regular wicket keeper in ODI'S - DHONI who isn't that bad in test, just not a great batsman.

[The Outsider]

No way is Saha the better keeper from whatever I've seen. And how will he strengthen the slip cordon? Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

Saha is a better keeper and will strengthen the slip cordon by standing a couple of paces up so that edges don't drop short regularly.

[maniac]

Time to bring Samson in :agree:

[shortbread]

No way is Saha the better keeper from whatever I've seen. And how will he strengthen the slip cordon? Sent from my Micromax A74 using Tapatalk

I don't want to b!t(h about Dhoni because as far as I can remember India never really had a fairly reliable WK/batsman before him, except Nayan Mongia one out of 20 times!!! But honestly he is taking fairly toooo long to fix a very obvious glitch in his batting!! Accepted he doesn't have a great technique and never relied on it so far in his career but his glaring flaw is obvious even from the International Space Station!! If he left that ball outside off from Steyn and stuck around with Rahane, India would have been in a far better position.

[The Outsider]

He might' date=' I can't but it's hard to allow a seperate wicket keeper come in to the team when we have a regular wicket keeper in ODI'S - DHONI who isn't that bad in test, just not a great batsman.[/quote'] Yeah, I agree it's not the most practical solution. Not to mention, the Srini factor.

[ThePhenomenal1]

Its not like Dhoni has had to pull off ABDV style catches. Even rayudu could keep, and we'd have a solid batsman at 6/7. I was thinking maybe karthik instead of rohit, could strenghten slip cordon and does well against pace and all types of bowling. Maybe LOIs isnt for DK, but he did well in longer format. Let rohit be a LOI player, nothing wrong in that

[ThePhenomenal1]

But i respect dhoni for working on his weaknesses, he looks a little better and attacked today. When he tried to play that stroke, it worked against him.

[SLICKR392]

LOL. Funny how people bring up Saha, who hasn't done jack shyte in FC to replace Dhoni. Samson and Tare are better options.

[The Outsider]

^ I've never seen Samson or Tare keep, so can only go by what I've seen.

[maniac]

Lejund Vinny Kumar spun circles around Tare the only time I saw him in a test match setting

[shortbread]

LOL. Funny how people bring up Saha' date=' who hasn't done jack shyte in FC to replace Dhoni. Samson and Tare are better options.[/quote']

[Sidhoni]

Saha is a better keeper and will strengthen the slip cordon by standing a couple of paces up so that edges don't drop short regularly.

Edges dropped short even for Morkel at the Wanderers with all his pace and bounce. That pitch had uneven bounce on last 3 days.

[asterix]

ABDV has out kept Dhoni in this series... Dhoni should learn some wicket keeping tips from ABDV...

[rageaddict]

Tare is a hardcore flat track bully. He makes runs on Mumbai's patta tracks and nowhere else. I think the umpires might not allow Steyn or Morkel to bowl at Tare!! Samson, dont really rate his keeping but as a batsman he did impress with the couple of innings I have seen him play. But I completely agree the next WK/batsman must be a youngster we can groom with the future in mind rather than go back to tried an tested failures. Dhoni is still the better bet than DK, Partiv, Saha... but if we are looking for a replacement it must be a newbie with a long term plan.

Lol... Why is that ? I have seen Tare smashing Warne out of the park.