Suresh Raina's Captaincy watch!

[Jersey #10]

Best of luck to Raina and hopefully he will do us all proud.

[gaurav92]

Honestly he isn't a captaincy material, but since he has been chosen the captain, good luck to him. I hope he does well.

[ganeshran]

Lets see. too early to make a judgement on him, especially since he led a completely rookie side last time around

[Sidhoni]

Best of Luck Raina!!!

[desi pride 4321]

Suresh Raina- captaincy watch thread... He looked nervous yesterday in the first t 20 match. Lets c if the talented left hander leads team well in the ODIs.

[Sidhoni]

anyways had a good start

[jairamesh]

can't really read into a one-off t20 performance, but seems to be less instinctive and risk taking than dhoni's blueprint, i.e. trusting the 5 main bowlers with no intention to mix it around with other part-timers. Though again he was never under pressure as India seemed always on top in the field. On another note is this the best fielding side India have put out for ages re: Raina, Kohli, Badri, Sharma, Dhawan ideal fielders to have inside the circle.

[ViruRulez]

Good start but cannot judge so early. As of now, he and Kohli looks more sensible than the other captaincy backup we have. Infact, he looks better than even Kohli and is a cool customer (maybe due to Dhoni and CSK effect) .. but he surely has potential to be a good captain .. if he was not in CSK then he might have been a good captain of another IPL team as he has a steady and cool head

[Jersey #10]

Dupe thread...I made a similar thread 6 days ago

[ch1234]

What about finishing all his main 4 bowlers before the last over?.. He did some wrong calcuation in that case, right?..

[jonas10]

What about finishing all his main 4 bowlers before the last over?.. He did some wrong calcuation in that case' date=' right?..[/quote'] Huge mistake. If WI were only chasing 8-10 in the final over and we had our #5 bowler Pathan for the 20th we would have certainly lost. He needs to take a page from Dhoni and his agressive captaincy style. Perhaps should have given an over to Rohit, himself or maybe opened with Ashwin and the new ball.

[jf1gp_1]

What about finishing all his main 4 bowlers before the last over?.. He did some wrong calcuation in that case' date=' right?..[/quote'] irrelevant, game was over around the 12 into WI inning; didnt matter who bowled which over after that.

[panesarv]

irrelevant' date=' game was over around the 12 into WI inning; didnt matter who bowled which over after that.[/quote'] +1

[gaurav92]

Just his second tour, give him some time and stop comparing him with Dhoni FFS :D

[Sidhoni]

Just his second tour' date=' give him some time and stop comparing him with Dhoni FFS :D[/quote'] +1

[CoverDrive]

has been good so far. Played a calm knock yesterday. seems to have found his place in the team as a finisher. made all the right moves in the field - looks much better than last time

[Karan114]

^ To be fair, last time he was saddled with a completely inexperienced attack - Umesh Yadav, Dinda, Pankaj Singh, Vinay Kumar etc. Most captains would have struggled with that sort of bowling. Now he has Munaf, Praveen and Bhajji so plenty of experience there

[desi pride 1234]

who is this fake desi pride.?:giggle: i am back after one month ban....

[Laaloo]

[J P K]

bump raina yet to lose t20 match as a captain (for TI) correct me if i am wrong