Surpirsed to see, Dhoni playing a sheet anchor role in game against Newzealand.
There something very terrible with his MINDSET knowadyas. The same attitude was seen with England ondayers and surprisingly, he continued it in 20-20 cricket. This format (20-20) is not made for sheet anchor role specially when you are chasing a mammoth total of 191 (as per indian standards).
We lost the game when Dhoni contended himself with 1 ball 1 run. Had been some hitting by him, the others would have rallied around him. Very unfortunately, Dhioni was rallying around others to build up his inings.
20-20 is not about playing sheet anchor, its about hitting one hard hit (AT LEAST) one over and then rotate, if needed. That never came in the middle overs, Dhoni keep on playing sheet anchor creating pressure on the other hand, and we lost it.
I beg to differ from Dhoni that bowlers let him down. I think both are equally responsible. Our bowlers are never been good at death. Agarkar (MOST MINDLESS CRICKETER YOU WILL EVER SEE), Sreesanth (MORE IN TANTRUM AND MEDIA HYPE THAN IN DELIVERABLES) and Yuvraj (SHORT IN COFIDENCE BOTH IN BOWLING AND BATTING) were not good enough. Irfan would been still better with his lack of pace. Similarly, KARTHIK is not made for 20-20.
And at last, surprised to see others warming benches. Drop, Sreesanth, Agarkar and Karthik, and bring in Yusuf, Rohit and Joginder.
Remaining matches at Durban, in the evening, with ball siming around, still if Ind
RE:DEAR DHONI, PLAY 20-20
by Rajesh Kumar on Sep 17, 2007 05:07 PM Permalink
DHONI IS DESTROYING HIS TALENT & POWER. DINESH KARTIK CAN NEVER HIT A SIX AS HE LACKS ABILITY & POWER. THE TEAM BATTING MUST BE AS GIVEN BELOW & IN THE ORDER GIVEN: SAHWAG GAMBHIR YUVRAJ ROHIT SHARMA UTHAPPA DHONI IRPHAN PATHAN YUSUF PATHAN HARBHAJAN R P SINGH JOGINDER
RE:DEAR DHONI, PLAY 20-20
by subramanyam devarakonda on Sep 17, 2007 05:23 PM Permalink
dear rajesh kumar u had mentioned about excellant team combination. But in the middle of tournament u cant expect many changes. Hence, the team combination could be (with batting order) like :
Since Dhoni is not in form he should bat at lower down the order. Still i insist for karthik becoz he is good batsmen with storng mindset. If he will open the innings he can atleast keep his strike rate at 100.00 and rotate the strike for hitters.
RE:DEAR DHONI, PLAY 20-20
by Arvind Balamkar on Sep 17, 2007 05:10 PM Permalink
20-20 is team work directed by captain. Our captain thinks it is one man game and himself. We scored 80 runs in first six overs and in next six over we scored hadly 30 runs. Sorry Dhoni is not fit for captain.
