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***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Disagree. Sehwag could have easily played out the series with India 2-0 up. No one would have blinked if he kept playing.

Obviously Ishant still playing is ****, but Zaheer is an old fat slow **** who can bowl but can't field and cbf batting. Was time to move on.
 
Contra

Contra

Cricketer Of The Year
Jono said:
Disagree. Sehwag could have easily played out the series with India 2-0 up. No one would have blinked if he kept playing.

Obviously Ishant still playing is ****, but Zaheer is an old fat slow **** who can bowl but can't field and cbf batting. Was time to move on.
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Um, that's more than what Ishant can do, even at that age lol.
 
Cevno

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
He may have had a opinion but he wasn't a deciding factor in any of those decisions, i don't think.

Zaheer was injured anyway before this series and missed the Ranji final and Irani trophy. He might have been back for this series actually if he was fit after the England loss.

And knives were out for Sehwag for a while. Probably could have lasted the series, i guess. But they took a long while to drop him.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Look, I'm not Duncan fan. And I am on the whole of the view that if you're going to rag on Dhoni in the losses, Duncan must also be blamed, even if his strength is "building a team and not running an established team".

But 4-0, Duncan has to get some credit, as does Dhoni. It may not wipe out the negatives from 0-4 0-4 and 1-2, but you can't just say "Duncan's moves anyone would have done". That basically means he cannot be given credit ever.
 
Cevno

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
But there's nothing to suggest these were his moves anyway. Not even media reports saying that he was the one pressing for this. It's a tough one whether how much you can blame him or credit him as there's no way of telling as he has largely kept a low profile and doesn't have Chappell like powers.

You can basically judge him on what he has added to the team visibly vis a vis what it was before in terms of strategy or coaching etc.. Because say someone like Gary Kirsten did well in terms of preparation of tours, tried and asked for more tour matches as much as he could. Brought in Paddy upton as mental conditioning coach and different bowling/fielding coaches which showed results over time and even in terms of strategy there weren't as many WTF moments as there have been since though Dhoni has to take more blame for this.
 
Cevno

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
Spikey said:
' That basically means he cannot be given credit ever. '

sounds good to me. great idea.
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Should apply that to Srinivasan who is now trying to take credit for not allowing the sacking of Dhoni after Australian tour :p -

BCCI president N Srinivasan hinted that the board's constitution gives him the power to approve any decision of the national selectors, including that on the captain. When a news channel asked Srinivasan whether there was substance in the media reports that selectors were under pressure to sack MS Dhoni after India lost four Tests in England and another four in Australia but you had backed him, all that Srinivasan said was "it is not proper to discuss selection matters. The constitution of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does say that the president has to approve the national team."
When the anchor rephrased the question and asked, "So, you have the last word as president? Srinivasan replied, "That's what the constitution of the BCCI says." Asked whether Dhoni should choose to quit the shorter format of the game as suggested by some experts, including former captain Rahul Dravid, Srinivasan said it is for the selectors to take the call. "The selectors are there to take a call. We have an experienced group of selectors. It is for them to decide. But personally I feel that Dhoni is discharging the duties [captaining in all three formats] well," he said.
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Srinivasan hints he saved MS Dhoni from being axed
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
On a slightly tangential note, why would anyone call for Dhoni to give up limited overs cricket? Saha could probably replace him in the Test XI, but he's one of the best ODI bats ever (as much as it hurts to say that). Dumb to call for him to be a Test specialist, TBH.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
rvd619323 said:
On a slightly tangential note, why would anyone call for Dhoni to give up limited overs cricket? Saha could probably replace him in the Test XI, but he's one of the best ODI bats ever (as much as it hurts to say that). Dumb to call for him to be a Test specialist, TBH.
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Because they don't have equal importance.
 
benchmark00

benchmark00

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Marc coming in and plucking out a single sentence from a post, quoting it out of context and sticking a question mark on the end of it??

well...
 
ajdude

ajdude

International Coach
benchmark00 said:
Marc coming in and plucking out a single sentence from a post, quoting it out of context and sticking a question mark on the end of it??

well...
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^benchmark being a **** and sticking two questions marks on the end of it

well...

actually no that's not very nice i'm really sorry
 
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