While I appreciate Dhoni as a successful captain, there are still voids to be filled like winning in Australia,England,series win in SA, Australia & England. After achieving these I will accept him as an all conquering captain
Re: Captain Dhoni continues to conquer
by venkateswaran venkateswaran on Dec 31, 2010 05:27 PM
A very good comment & valid point indeed. Can some one forward this comment to Dhoni please?
Re: Re: Captain Dhoni continues to conquer
by mukund vaidya on Dec 31, 2010 07:59 PM
dont lie venkat, of course even after dhoni does this you are not going to accept him as an all conquering captain.
you are still going to say that it is fluke or the teams were weak or played below strength.
Re: Re: Re: Captain Dhoni continues to conquer
by mukund vaidya on Dec 31, 2010 08:01 PM
also there are a few more reasons you will give for not accepting him as an all conquering captain. you will say that it was because of umpire bad decisions or match fixing or bcci power.
Lot of credit should go to Mahi with the way he has totally transformed the Indian team from a depths of despair to the world beaters. We always had a good batting line up, and an off-on bowling lineup. He has made the difference by turning this team around from a team filled with self doubt to a confident team, capable of beating the best in the world.
It is surprising that there are still some people around who think Dhoni is a "lucky" captain! He has shown that he gets luck his way more often than not, by sheer hard work and vision.
Re: Dhoni's captaioncy has transformed this team
by aaaa bbbb on Dec 31, 2010 07:52 AM
dhoni is a great captain .. cool captain...yes.. lot of transformation for the good has taken place only under ganguly..dont take away his credit who is chief architect of the modern indian crikcet team..ofcourse helped by a big team members like tendu,lax,dravid,harbhajan,sewag
Dhoni has the greatest batting line up ever assembled in the history of cricket. Indian bowling line up is among the best in the world. Indian bowling is definitely better than SA as demonstrated in Durban. Indian would have easily whitewashed SA if India had won the toss in the first test. England bowling is overrated. They can never beat India. England's bowlers can never take 20 wickets in test against India. Just look at the trouble they had against a third class opener like tami ekbal of BD in both BD and England. India will be the top team for many may decades.
Re: This is the greatest batting line up ever
by Sasanka Mahapatra on Dec 31, 2010 07:38 AM
I don't think so - we have always had good batting line ups, he has really transformed the team from a pack of losers to big time winners! Let us not denigrate his contributions to the make up of the team of winners...as all the members of the team have contributed.
Re: Re: This is the greatest batting line up ever
by Shiva Guru on Dec 31, 2010 07:42 AM
You need to take 20 wickets to win. We never had such kind of bowling. Apart from Kapil Dev, in the last 25 years we never had a match winning bowler outside India.
Kumble needed placid and under prepared wickets for any wickets.
Now we have match winners like Zaheer, Ishant etc. Thats why we are winning.
Not to take any credit away from Dhoni, he is a very capable leader and also luck favours him.
Re: Only 2 win
by majid qureshi on Dec 31, 2010 04:49 AM
Doesnt matter Murali. Some thing is better....media may put such caption so that we blast each-other, the captain,te bowler...maybe it is a good time-pass....
Re: Its not just Dhoni - A great Indian Team
by venkateswaran venkateswaran on Dec 31, 2010 05:21 PM
Hey kavita kulkarni who u r 2 comment abt vijay? Has he not come 2 u when asked? He will be the superstar from the year 2011. No more sehwag, tendulkar
Guys since cricket is a team game, I think if at all bharat ratan should be given to some one who has contributed to teams victory not to some one who has made personal records in a team game. Am i corrent?
Re: Bharat Ratan
by kavita kulkarni on Dec 30, 2010 09:33 PM
Its not due to the captain. Its because of the team that we have. Except Vijay everyone in the team is a great player
Re: Re: Bharat Ratan
by Amit vyas on Dec 31, 2010 02:14 AM
Captain also matters, you can see Dhoni broght us the T20 world cup and if thats not enough, as a Captain he is super successful in IPL too. played all Semi's, played two Finals and won one and Won the Champions League also. How else do you measure a captain!
Re: Re: Re: Bharat Ratan
by venkateswaran venkateswaran on Dec 31, 2010 05:24 PM
U measure his ability by winning in australia, england & SA. Has he done that so far? If test cricket gives more money than IPL, then may be he will become more successfull captain
Re: Bharat Ratan
by Free Free on Dec 30, 2010 09:12 PM
Bharat Ratna is for "PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS".... Also since cricket is a team game, the personal records add to the teams total, u numbnut
Re: Bharat Ratan
by akbiswas1992@rediffmail.com on Dec 31, 2010 01:19 AM
Look what a player does,he always does it for his country,i.e. team...it may be his prsnl records....but the team also takes its advantage...am i wrong????
Re: Bharat Ratan
by Against Pseudos on Dec 31, 2010 06:56 AM
Chill out:
Well said... I pick Murali Vijay in the Durban test... He didn't bother to score 96 to create personal records, but made a selfless single digit score, which resulted in India's win... :)
