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Dhoni and contemporary wicketkeepers


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Gilchrist = Legend Sangakkara = Legend McCullum = Top keeper, and does a handy job with the bat Boucher = Ditto Prior = Superb at his role in the side Dhoni = A useless hack who can strive to beat Kamran Akmal's record in test cricket. His scores this year in the format: 0, DNB, 0, 16, 2, 5, 74, DNB, 28, 16, 5, 0, 77, 74*, 17, 3, 0, 0. Surely there are other keepers in this country of a billion?

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I agree he has been disappointing in tests for a while now, I'd like to give him some more chance though before dumping him from the test format. Surely if this continues till Australian tour, selectors should consider bringing in someone else.

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Meh dhoni never had to perform or had that much responsibility in tests. Only downfall is he didnt really take that offer when India needed him. Other then that, I could careless of his performances. He is worth more then just a batsmen and a keeper

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Even Dinesh Karthik is a better wicket-keeper Batsman than Dhoni . His awful batting in the tests was being ignored for a long time as the overall team results have been great but lately fans are realizing that his individual contribution to the team is zero . A Great Test captain has to be an excellent individual performer at the first place someone like Ponting or Imran Khan or even Kapil Dev , those who can make the playing 11 even if captaincy is snatched away from them but at the moment even a Nobody like Sammy is contributing more to his team than Dhoni . After another disastrous overseas tour ,selectors must select best 11 players in the country and choose the captain from within rather than giving chance to someone with a horrible technique spend easy time in world class team under the excuse of a wicket-keeper.

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We had stupid fans who wanted even sachin to retire when he struggled in 2007.So not really surprising there are fickle fans who just want to bash every player when they struggle at every chance in India. It sometimes seems some fans watch cricket so that they can criticize players.Nothing else.

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Not sure about DKs keeping of late, but he is a better bat. However even if we drop him, and it will not happen, who do you suggest captains

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Not sure about DKs keeping of late' date=' but he is a better bat. However even if we drop him, and it will not happen, who do you suggest captains[/quote'] Gambo! Whadya think? Right, whoever Outy is, bring him on. I posted a string of scores in my first post, let's see him defend that.
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DK and Dropthiv can't keep. Atleast Dhoni can catch the fecking ball.
Ah, that's why we stick with the bloke who's scraped up 5 ducks in the past year, with 7 more opportunities left. Of course. And if he's planning on learning how to bat at this age (30+), we're done for.
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OP, tell me one wicket keeper who has 1)led his team to 20-20 wc win 2) any similar situation where he ahs allowed joginder sharma like bowler to bowl last ball of wc 3) won a world cup in HIS HOMELAND 4) was man of match in the FINAL 5) has an excellent record of chasing as a BATSMAN 6) can actually win a streak of nearly 20 matches consecutively for his team while chasing 7) icc odi player for 2 consecutive years 8) avg 50+ in ODIs 9) just lose 1 test series till now ( i don exactly remember how many series he has captained so far) 10) present squad, tell me one another such prolific captain? 11) has a significant record for his country as winning captain that matches one of the best that come before him

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