StriKe Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Love the way we have special rules for dhoni!!!:hysteric People invent all kinds of stuff to protect him Why not? He is the best we got in LOI cricket..It's a dumb move to drop him for ODI's.
King Tendulkar Posted February 18, 2014 Author Posted February 18, 2014 Why not? He is the best we got in LOI cricket..It's a dumb move to drop him for ODI's. No you said play him at home for tests and overseas tests rest him Nice. Raina wants same deal as well:giggle:
King Tendulkar Posted February 18, 2014 Author Posted February 18, 2014 O and sod the other keeper playing away from home. He has to make way for maharaja dhoni
skindia Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 No you said play him at home for tests and overseas tests rest him Nice. Raina wants same deal as well:giggle: even wasif jaffer wants itB->
skindia Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 In india...Mahesh Rawat can also play well in tests
Switchblade Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 In india...Mahesh Rawat can also play well in tests
StriKe Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 No you said play him at home for tests and overseas tests rest him Nice. Raina wants same deal as well:giggle: For raina..he shouldn't play play anywhere.
Sachin=GOD Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 KT- I am being serious here . If you want MS to go,you need to create a thread mentioning that he is the greatest captain ever.Serious. I don't know about KT, but I'll say it: M$D is the greatest test captain among those captains who have led their team to at least two 4-0 whitewashes. Happy now :)
Sidhoni Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Lol SG white font. Jo kehna hai khul ke kaho..
Sachin=GOD Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Lol SG white font. Jo kehna hai khul ke kaho.. Here you go - M$D is the greatest test captain among those captains who have led their team to at least two 4-0 whitewashes. :icflove:
The Realist Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Blighted dreams, broken promises India’s charismatic, self-assured and reputedly talismanic leader, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, seems to have an unembarrassed appetite for unadulterated denialism. If you had been around at Dhoni’s post-match presser at Wellington, on Tuesday, at a time when most of us had just plunged headlong into the day’s work at office, you’d have thought that his team has done swimmingly well as travellers — and as the lone repository of all our hopes in a country of 1.2 billion. Motivated reasoning and confirmation bias are not the defining characteristics of Indian cricket captains alone. But Dhoni, lately, has made an art out of interpreting things to suit his own idea of how things are going. And this has done nothing to raise Captain Cool’s cool quotient. Parents of children born around the time Dhoni’s team last won a Test match abroad would now be busy seeking school admission for their little ones. It was a time, too, when the U.S. dollar fetched less than Rs. 45. In that time, India has played 14 Test matches outside the country, losing ten and drawing the rest. The last taste of success was against the West Indians in June 2011. “We are trying. It is not like making food where you say, okay, salt is missing, that is why it is not good. Where we are lacking, that is a difficult question to answer,” said Dhoni on Tuesday, attempting a bit of post-hoc rationalisation. However felicitous the captain’s choice of words may be, the truth is this Indian team is not skilful enough to finish off the adversary when the opportunity presents itself — as it did in quite a few Tests, most of all in Johannesburg and Wellington. The story of blighted dreams and broken promises may — in the minds of a few experts — have to do with the team’s unflattering bowling resources. But, at the end of the day, it is down to how hungry the men are collectively and what their body language tells us when a pair of doughty opponents offers resistance. “Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve,” wrote the great Argentine, Jose Luis Borges. Then again, ‘noisy’ defeats do not perhaps deserve as much dignity. And Dhoni’s men have made a lot of noise in going down time and again, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Through all this, the inspirational leader himself seems to have changed, aged visibly and appears prone to dishing out feel-good balderdash in hard times. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/nirmal_shekar/blighted-dreams-broken-promises/article5702919.ece
The Realist Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 India continue losing streak, heat will be on Captain Cool Dhoni To say that India’s performance in New Zealand has been disappointing and even frustrating will be stating the obvious. Here was India’s best chance at reversing its trend of loosing overseas for the last three years and 14 Test matches against a lowly-ranked team. Very few would have envisaged such a strong New Zealand show against the second-ranked team in the world. Contrary to all expectations, the end result has been a near white-wash in the one-dayers that cost India the Number one slot in the world and now an embarrassing Test series loss. The second Test draw has come as a shock, given the fact that they were at one stage in a position to win it even by an innings. Much as one wants to laud Brendon McCullum’s Bradman-like feat, the overwhelming feeling among the Indians would be of disillusionment with skipper MS Dhoni and his tactical acumen. Dhoni has been lavishly praised and justifiably so, for his ice-cool temperament and letting his uncanny intuition lead his decisions on the field whenever in a crisis. The praise has come because it has worked for him in home conditions. Overseas, the same Dhoni becomes an indifferent, conservative and overtly defensive leader, who withdraws his troops even at a hint of aggression from the rivals. Examples are many, the latest being in the Wellington Test where he stopped attacking even when India were leading by a healthy margin when McCullum and Waitling got together in what turned out to be a world-record partnership effort. What is a captain worth, if he retreats at crucial moments, letting the opponents gain in confidence and give them enough space to come out of a hole. It is strange to find Dhoni, who often flirts with danger when batting, play so safe when it comes to leading his men from the front in crunch moments. There is no doubt that India’s pace battery looses fuse quickly and is unfit for long spells, which they are rarely needed for in India. And the spinners, who thrive on tailor-made home wickets become almost redundant outside. It is this terrible weakness that Dhoni can blame for being unable to win the Wanderers Test in South Africa prior to this tour or the one here now. The impact of the limited overs cricket on Indian bowling in overseas conditions is too stark to be ignored. Yet, that does not absolve Dhoni from not taking the blame for an indifferent performance that does not augur well for India. If New Zealand could inflict a defeat on us, what would be our fate in England and Australia, India's next two destinations? A scary thought, isn't it? http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/cricket/india-vs-newzealand-2014/innz2014-otherstories/india-continue-losing-streak-heat-will-be-on-captain-cool-dhoni/sp-article10-1185362.aspx?htsw0023
Yoda-esque Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 I don't know about KT, but I'll say it: M$D is the greatest test captain among those captains who have led their team to at least two 4-0 whitewashes. Happy now :) Sorry but you do not have KT's power Also I use Tapatalk that shows the text that you changed to white font.
Marut Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Not captain cool anymore, he is captain fool.
Gunner Posted February 18, 2014 Posted February 18, 2014 Not captain cool anymore' date=' he is captain fool.[/quote'] More like Captain Tool these days
Switchblade Posted February 19, 2014 Posted February 19, 2014 Is it time to split Team India's captaincy? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/series-tournament/india-in-new-zealand-2014/top-stories/Is-it-time-to-split-Team-Indias-captaincy/articleshow/30654709.cms The stats are there for everyone to see. Since winning the World Cup in April 2011, India have lost 10 of the 15 Tests they have played overseas. MS Dhoni has captained in 14 of them. These losses have come against England, Australia, South Africa and even New Zealand. In the 23 Tests that he has captained overseas, he has lost 11, a loss rate of around 48 percent. Sourav Ganguly had a loss percentage of 35.71. So, has the time come to strip Dhoni of Test captaincy and go for a split leadership? Pertinent question! Let's examine. Analysts are calling him a defensive captain. The impression that is gaining credence is that he is waiting for things to happen rather than going for the jugular. Take the example of Wellington, half the New Zealand side was back in the hut during their second innings for just 94 and the ball was just 37 overs old. The situation called for an all-out attack but Dhoni chose to spread the field. Brendon McCullum and BJ Watling easily settled in. The field setting was either 6-3 or 7-2. Ravindra Jadeja kept bowling his innocuous left-arm spin, the fielders kept running to where the previous boundary had come from and the Kiwis ended up making 680. At Lord's in 2011, Dhoni started the post-lunch session on Day Four with Suresh Raina, in the next Test at Trent Bridge, he let Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan to stage a comeback, in Melbourne he got shy of attacking the Australia middle and lower-order despite being on the top, in Johannesburg he probably got scared of losing the Test, trying to contain Faf du Plessis and AB de Villiers. In the Durban Test, he didn't take the new ball for 146 overs. RP Singh's presence in the Oval Test, curiously, never got investigated. Fatigue is a huge factor too. He had taken over as the full-time Test captain in November 2008 and in 13 months made India the No. 1 Test nation. Now those are distant memories. At times, he appears in sleep mode. Ganguly has spoken about it after the third Test loss in Australia but Dhoni shot back saying, "For anybody else to judge how seriously I take something is difficult." But fatigue remains a factor. Leading in Tests, ODIs, T20Is, IPL, Champions League is sure to be draining one mentally and physically. The prospect of dealing with so many personalities, situations, nationalities, controversies and media is bound to take a lot out of anyone. Dhoni cannot be an exception. So who after him? Virat Kohli should be the front-runner. He seems to have put his finger-flinging days behind. He has Test tons in Australia, South Africa and now New Zealand. He has captained India to U-19 World Cup, he is young and moreover looks the man with the Midas-touch. Another name is Cheteshwar Pujara but he currently plays only in Test matches. In Pujara, the team will have a man who has all the time in the world to think about Tests and only Tests. After the 4-0 loss in Australia, Dhoni said, "It (captaincy) doesn't belong to anyone. It's a position I hold, and it's an added responsibility. I always like to do well till I am in job but it's not something I want to stick to. If there is a better replacement, he can come in." Maybe time has come to find a better replacement.
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