How much more can Dhoni's body and mind take?

[fineleg]

IPL and CL :aha:

[gaurav92]

^:boffing:

[fineleg]

^ I wrote the former post sarcastically

[b555]

he won us the wc i wont say a word against him no matter wat he does

[gaurav92]

^ I wrote the former post sarcastically

I know that and I know you very well too :--D

[IKnowU]

He will be looking forward to CL as he will finally have some decent phasst bowling talunt :giggle:

[Trichromatic]

I say he is. He is not taking proper rest. And we are seeing the effects in captaincy blunders.

+1 Can't believe he his still playing. Seriously someone needs to stop him. If management and selectors cared about players then they wouldn't have allowed him to play so many matches. He has played maximum cricket in last few years. For a wicket-keeper captain workload is immense. He needs to skip few series.

[Sachin=GOD]

Dhoni needs to take a rest but sadly its not going to happen any time soon with the CL and then England and WI and Aus series'. Also, seeing the beating India has taken in England, Dhoni won''t even accept a rest if selectors request him to do so.

[Trichromatic]

Player       	             Span 	Mat 	Inns 	NO 	Runs 	HS 	Ave 	BF 	SR 	100 	50 	0 	4s 	6s
MS Dhoni (India) 	2007-2011 	171 	182 	39 	6433 	132* 	44.98 	8973 	71.69 	7 	44 	6 	526 	100
MJ Clarke (Aus) 	2007-2011 	163 	187 	28 	6993 	168 	43.98 	11259 	62.11 	14 	41 	11 	619 	28
DPMD Jayawardene (SL) 	2007-2011 	159 	178 	14 	6808 	275 	41.51 	10371 	65.64 	17 	35 	12 	695 	42
MEK Hussey (Aus) 	2007-2011 	157 	178 	30 	6739 	195 	45.53 	10820 	62.28 	11 	44 	11 	607 	58
KC Sangakkara (SL) 	2007-2011 	157 	178 	15 	7611 	219 	46.69 	11269 	67.53 	16 	45 	4 	799 	40
MG Johnson (Aus) 	2007-2011 	156 	131 	32 	1943 	123* 	19.62 	2758 	70.44 	1 	8 	20 	203 	43
TM Dilshan (SL) 	2007-2011 	146 	160 	17 	6182 	193 	43.23 	6784 	91.12 	18 	26 	10 	740 	51
LRPL Taylor (NZ) 	2007-2011 	145 	160 	18 	5131 	154* 	36.13 	7048 	72.80 	7 	31 	5 	503 	120
BB McCullum (NZ) 	2007-2011 	142 	164 	13 	5538 	225 	36.67 	6887 	80.41 	8 	32 	12 	596 	138
RT Ponting (Aus) 	2007-2011 	140 	172 	10 	6487 	209 	40.04 	9199 	70.51 	13 	40 	11 	705 	46

[Cricket Tragic]

I don't think he will play the ODIs against the WI.

[asterix]

Look guys, I had already suggested this (this is the way forward): Test Matches: Captain: Gambhir VC: Zak Dhoni shouldn't be in Test squad. ODIs/T20s Captain: Dhoni VC: Kohli The young players should be selected on a rotational basis in T20/ODIs.

[Trichromatic]

Look guys, I had already suggested this (this is the way forward): Test Matches: Captain: Gambhir VC: Zak Dhoni shouldn't be in Test squad. ODIs/T20s Captain: Dhoni VC: Kohli The young players should be selected on a rotational basis in T20/ODIs.

Zak's career is almost over. Even if he remains fit, he won't be able to play more than half of the matches.

[asterix]

Zak's career is almost over. Even if he remains fit' date=' he won't be able to play more than half of the matches.[/quote'] I want a bowler to be the VC. Only a bowler in some position of power can help India in the bowling department. Enough of Batsmen & WK captains. I wish Zak could continue for couple of years. :(( He's a pretty shrewed brain and also helps in setting good field..It's a pity that his expertise was never been utilised..

[Cricket Tragic]

Zaheer controls a lot of things on the field anyway wrt to plans and field settings. It doesn't matter if he is the VC or not. You want the VC to ideally be the next skip and Zaheer is not the man for it.

[asterix]

Zaheer controls a lot of things on the field anyway wrt to plans and field settings. It doesn't matter if he is the VC or not. You want the VC to ideally be the next skip and Zaheer is not the man for it.

True..C_T i would like to have a bowling captain. But it seem none are experinced enough or keen Most of them are not sure of their place.. :((

[Cricket Tragic]

True..C_T i would like to have a bowling captain. But it seem none are experinced enough or keen Most of them are not sure of their place.. :((

Forget about a bowling captain, we don't have bowlers right now. :cantstop: :((

[asterix]

Forget about a bowling captain, we don't have bowlers right now. :cantstop: :((

Bhajji as the bowling captain? He can make it large.. :nervous:

[Trichromatic]

^ Karma He will certainly play for next 10 years.

[Mariyam]

I like this idea. We can now read the minds of cricketers. :P What about Bhajji? He can't accept that he can't spin the bowl. What about Varun? He can't accept that he was taken to England just to be a porter and a ball boy What about Misbah? He can't accept that the match against India at Mohali is still over MSD won the MoS in the D/L series. Didn't look mentally fatigued to me. Looked fresher and full of ideas in the shorter format of the game. He is the best thinking captain we have. Never crumbles under pressure. At the end of it all, he can only do so much with the kind of injuries and bowling options we've had. I don't think he's mentally fatigued at all.

[ganeshran]

I love the way everyone is taking it out of Dhoni for backing the wrong bowlers. Except Varun Aaron (who incidentally is completley unproven) at the international stage, what wrong team selection did Dhoni do? All of the others were given chances and messed up big time. We have a poor bowling attack without Zaheer, and dhoni cannot change it, the presence of a newbie Aaron doesnt change it either. This has nothing to do with CL or IPL either. BCCI should look to develop bowling talent from the school level - that is the only answer to our bowling woes.