A step towards Destiny

Archive for June 2009

Before this T20 world cup almost every move of Dhoni was hailed by most of the fans. Some said that he was(is) a master mind, while some said that the moves made by him were ill-logical and it was sheer luck that made him a succesfOOl captain.You ought to believe the latter ones now, as all the ‘ill-logical’ moves made by him in the current T20 world cup fell flat miserably!! Be it the decision to continue with the spinners when the west-Indian batsmen were pouncing on them, or sending Ravindra Jadeja in a crucial encounter against england (who doesn’t have enough batting prowess even to clear the 30 yard circle !!) , when the asking rate was climbing above 8. If this was not enough he was responsible(atlist i feel he was) for the wicket of Harbhajan against RSA, as he denied an easy single to yuvraj singh who was at the non-strikers end. So bhajji sir had to play the next ball, on which he got himself out, and it was downhill from then onwards.
It was a shame to lose against South Africa as at once we just had to score 90 runs from as many balls with 8 or 9 wickets in hand!! And yes how can anyone forget the change in batting approach that our captain has ‘incorporated’, thanks to which we lost all the super8 matches. You could always here the boos in NBH TV room when he came to bat. People even started comparing him with rahul dravid..(but i feel he has a long way to go as far as his technik is concerned :D ). All his will moves will now be questioned, and those should be.
Even after cursing him so much :P , i still feel he is better than most of the previous captains and a better batsmen, just that he needs to revert back a touch to his old batting style (I loved the-way he used to dig a yorker out for a six, which it seems now that he has almost forgotten). And he and our team will be allrite!!
But for now the team is in dire straits and as with most of the earlier captains.. the heat is on Dhoni.
God bless him :)