The decision is hugely unfair to the boy from Jharkhand. Yes, he has the captaincy material, but making him captain so soon and letting him face Pakistan and Australia is unfair to him. He needed time to grow up and mature. I think making Sachin or Sourav the captain would have made sense. Dhoni could have been groomed as the next man.
RE:Unfair to Dhoni
by Sarath Chandra on Sep 19, 2007 12:52 AM Permalink
Dhoni is 26, with over 20 tests and 80 one dayers under his belt. He is also a certainty in both sides.
Besides, to perform well against Australia we will need superlative individual performances. Our only consistent batsmen of recent times were Dravid, Ganguly and Tendulkar (both forms). Whatever Dravid's recent performances, it is hard to deny that he is the most likely guy to score big (150s and 200s) against Australia later this year. On field captaincy becomes a bit less important under such tough competetion where Australia is super-skilled. Nobody can deny Australia is winning based on skills and not on captaincy. Off the field, Dhoni will be well guided by so many experienced guys in the team with respect to team selection and toss decisions.
I think we are in the best possible position to deal with the season ahead, under the given circumstances. Let's back the team.
RE:Unfair to Dhoni
by Gopal Krishna on Sep 19, 2007 12:56 AM Permalink
"Off the field, Dhoni will be well guided by so many experienced guys in the team with respect to team selection and toss decisions. "
THat must be the biggest joke of the decade. Off the field, he will be guided by 10 janpath and only 10 janpath! He has to be the "Yes" man if he wants to stick to his gaddi!
RE:Unfair to Dhoni
by jsigns on Sep 19, 2007 01:26 AM Permalink
It is going to be the starting of downfall of Dhoni's cricketing career. Huge Huge mistake byt the most idiotic people involved in Indian cricket - The Board Selectors. They always prove that there is no cricketing brain with them. They just want to end a sudden problem somehow as quickly as possible.
