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Dhoni may go as T20,ODI captain!

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Holysmoke Newbie

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Clealry Dhoni is over playing. Needs a good rest. I often feel in less important games he should not keep and just play as a batsman to preserve energy.
like tests against lanka:hysterical:
diegovegaz Newbie

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this is great news sehwag is an attacking captain..and will go for wickets..rather than dhoni's defensive, containing tactics and maybe, dhoni with the burden off his shoulders, would get back to his hitting ways

asterix Mentor

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Any ICC event is important. And any more Indian campaigns in ICC events cannot be left at the mercy of a captain who is making too many errors off late. It's a welcome decision. It's good Dhoni concentrates in test matches and IPL (afterall he does worry about his franchisees not reaching atleast semifinals). ODI and T20 captaincy can be hended over to whoever ready to take up the challenge. Dhoni was given the responsibility for 2 consecutive T20 WC campaigns. Can't be given any more and it'll definitely affect the ODI WC campaign too. This is the right time to hand over the captaincy to player who is hungry to win matches.

littlemaster1982 Newbie

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A leading national daily once asked a Pakistani fast bowler to perform some brand endorsement functions. The player refused, claiming that he did not have the time. Two days later, the paper in question — you know who you are — front-paged a story that selectors and the establishment in Pakistan were concerned about the bowling action of the player in question, and there were some doubts whether he would be picked for an upcoming tournament. Another day, another story: India had just finished one more of its disastrous campaigns at the world level [those holding the IPL entirely to blame for the latest disaster might, while we are on the topic, like to consider that outside of the win in the inaugural edition of the World T20 Cup, our recent record in global competitions has been less than stellar, to put it mildly]. Then coach Greg Chappell was back in India, preparing his post-tournament report. At the time, a national daily, three days running, front-paged stories citing “confidential sources†and claiming that the coach’s report was incendiary in nature; that it came down heavily on various players [all of them named]; that three or four players in particular were slated to face the coach’s wrath, and so on. The reports also claimed (a) that senior players Tendulkar, Ganguly, Sehwag, Harbhajan, Zaheer and Yuvraj had formed a coterie against then captain Rahul Dravid; that they lacked commitment and refused to follow instructions of the coach and captain; that they put their personal interest over the team’s interest; that it was the coterie, for instance, that forced Dravid to opt to bat first if he won the toss against Bangladesh, and so on and on. There was only one problem with the story — it wasn’t true. And I knew this at first hand. The day he returned to Bombay, Chappell had called on phone, and asked if I would go over to the Taj to meet with him. At that meeting, he said he was putting together a presentation for the board, showed me the first draft, and asked if I had any thoughts. What struck me at the time was the forward-looking nature of the presentation — where I had expected a post-mortem of the World Cup disaster, I found instead a meticulous roadmap of all that could be done to improve Indian cricket from the ground up. Without going into tedious detail, its centerpiece was the point that exposing players to the latest coaching methods once they had reached the national level was counter productive. The player was physically shaped, Chappell argued, during his formative years in school/college/club cricket, he was pretty much set in his ways, both physically and in terms of skill sets, by the time he reached the state level. And once he got to the national side and was exposed to a different brand of coaching altogether, it was proving to be counter-productive in the extreme. Thus, the presentation argued, the BCCI needed to set up a grassroots-up coaching structure. School, collegiate and club coaches would work under the direction of a state coach; the state coaches would form a body interacting closely with the national coach, and the goal at all times would be to ensure that players were moved systematically through the development process, so that they peaked at the national level rather than reaching that stage and being forced to unlearn everything they had learned till date. The presentation, when it was made, surprised, even delighted, the board. The paper in question reported it on the sports pages, without ever once mentioning the doomsday drumbeat on its own front pages in the days leading up to the event. It did not at any point in time even consider that its inspired kite-flying on the tail wind of “confidential sources†could have damaged relations among players; it offered no apology for misleading the readers; it did not even explain how its “sources close to the coach†could have gotten it so completely wrong. I was reminded of these and other similar incidents when I read this morning in the Times of India that the BCCI was “considering†sacking MS Dhoni, and replacing him with Virender Sehwag for the ODI and T20 sides. Who is doing this “considering� Here are a few facts: (1) The board officials have neither met, nor telephonically or otherwise discussed, India’s latest world cup campaign. Their line is that they are currently busy with the Lalit Modi hearing due on the 16th, and that discussions of the team performance can wait till the team returns, and the captain and coach file their reports. (2) The national selectors have not at this point in time discussed the Caribbean campaign, and are slated to do so only once the two reports have been routed to them via the BCCI [the normal process is for the reports to be submitted to the board secretary, who forwards them to the selectors together with any comments the board officials may choose to make]. (3) The issue of the captaincy will not be decided upon now, but will be on the agenda of the selectors when they next meet to pick the national side for India’s next major engagement. So again — who is this mysterious entity that is “considering†the captaincy issue? More broadly, what is the genesis of such stories? A good question to ask yourself is, cui bono? Who benefits? The facile answer is, Virender Sehwag — the man being nominated by various confidential sources as the next captain. But that is superficial — the real answer lies at the subcutaneous level: a combination of sponsors and player agents. For sponsors, a player’s brand value rises exponentially as he rises in the team hierarchy [and vice versa -- an 'ex-captain' tag on a player is worse than if he had never been captain at all]. And the more a player’s value rises, the more agents stand to earn through pimping his services for various brands. What is really startling is the knock-on effect such stories have. One media outlet front pages it or surfaces it on its TV channel, and everyone else picks it up and amplifies it, not because their “confidential sources†are confirming the story, but because not having the story on their own channels/pages makes them seem disconnected, dated, out of the loop. [Do a search for 'Sehwag, captain' and you'll see what I mean]. Unfortunately, such inspired planting of stories causes great collateral damage — but again, that is not the paper’s concern. The point is to build up a tailwind for the thought, to transform a motivated wish into a national outcry through the mysterious alchemy of the front page, and if damage is a by-product, then so be it.
Read the rest here: http://prempanicker.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/cui-bono/
Gunner_Mania Newbie

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This proves that T20 is considered highly important in India:winky: They`re even ready to sack their all-time best captain for the sake of it
No. It is a tabloid news channel and its newspaper that is ready to sack Dhoni.
asterix Mentor

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Well the Rockstars do need a bit of Bamboo in their backside. They have been on a rampage without caring for anybody. More than that BCCI too need constant Bamboo in their back now that they have had to cop up so much of embarrassment due to IPL and Mr. Modi. I hope the players understand that in public life and that too a high profile one, they are going to get positive and negative reactions..Nobody forced them to do 100s of Advertisements, Ramp walks and Reality TV shows. The more you do that, the more you get vulnerable to attacks when you don't show professionalism in your primary occupation.

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Any ICC event is important. And any more Indian campaigns in ICC events cannot be left at the mercy of a captain who is making too many errors off late. It's a welcome decision. It's good Dhoni concentrates in test matches and IPL (afterall he does worry about his franchisees not reaching atleast semifinals). ODI and T20 captaincy can be hended over to whoever ready to take up the challenge. Dhoni was given the responsibility for 2 consecutive T20 WC campaigns. Can't be given any more and it'll definitely affect the ODI WC campaign too. This is the right time to hand over the captaincy to player who is hungry to win matches.
Even though the news about Dhoni's sacking was the garbage imagination of some idiot at TOI, assuming that to be true, lets look at the option 1. Sehwag - Doesnt want to captain Delhi in Ranji or DD in IPL. Says Gambhir is better suited to be a captain than him. Has done well in tests but failed in ODIs and t20s in last 12-14 months. 2. Gambhir- A few sledges and loses his cool as shown in the match against Aus at Barbados. Neds to control his anger a lot more to become even a contender for a captain. Also didn't look "hungry enough" to do well for the team at the WC. Has had a poor time with the bat in t20s and ODIs in last 12-14 months Who all are left, Yuvraj, Bhajji, Zaheer, none worth even discussing. Thn comes the younger crop, but then the Rainas and Kohlis are yet to establish themselves in the ODI team. Too early to make them the captain.
asterix Mentor

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Even though the news about Dhoni's sacking was the garbage imagination of some idiot at TOI, assuming that to be true, lets look at the option 1. Sehwag - Doesnt want to captain Delhi in Ranji or DD in IPL. Says Gambhir is better suited to be a captain than him. Has done well in tests but failed in ODIs and t20s in last 12-14 months. 2. Gambhir- A few sledges and loses his cool as shown in the match against Aus at Barbados. Neds to control his anger a lot more to become even a contender for a captain. Also didn't look "hungry enough" to do well for the team at the WC. Has had a poor time with the bat in t20s and ODIs in last 12-14 months Who all are left, Yuvraj, Bhajji, Zaheer, none worth even discussing. Thn comes the younger crop, but then the Rainas and Kohlis are yet to establish themselves in the ODI team. Too early to make them the captain.
The DD duo cannot be given Captaincy. They are not reliable. The Party going group too cannot be given the captaincy. Time is right to give Raina the responsibility. Raina shows intent to win and has good temperament and has confidence of Dhoni too. Dhoni will not mind Raina taking the reigns. I'm sure other prima-donnas will shut up and put up as Raina does performs most of the time. So Dhoni to be captain of Test team and CSK.. :two_thumbs_up: And Raina captains the ODI and T20 teams..
mastana Newbie

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:hysterical: :hysterical: They want to sack Dhoni just because we failed in tontee tontees. :hehe: After Ganguly he is the best captain we have. Giving captaincy to Sehwag isn't a good idea he won't bat freely after that. "Mujhe bhooley toh nahi - Saurav Ganguly" :woot:

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