Dhoni, who had been praised by the likes of VVS Laxman recently for his manner of handling victories and defeats with equal poise, refused to offer any excuses for India's fourth-biggest ODI defeat in terms of runs.
However, he did single out the toss, Mithun's heatstroke, the rushed schedule right after a gruelling Test series, and of course the spongy bounce of the surface.
dhoni is right to blame the toss here... once we lost the toss coupled with spongy bounce of the surface... india had no choice but to bundle out for 88 runs...
the rushed schedule also played its part although one skeptic pointed out that karthik, rohit, jadeja, praveen and nehra were not the part of the test team... yuvi did not play last two tests... and dhoni could well have taken rest coz he was in deep discomfort keeping wickets in last test match that would have meant seven fresh players would have played to negate the 'rushed schedule' but it was rightly dismissed as arm-chair pundit's hindsight knee-jerk reaction after the loss...
so one can see there were no excuses given for team india's fourth biggest odi defeat... we just did it to generate some interest towards this meaningless 'rushed' tri-series...
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I beleive NZ just got lucky and if one goes by their record they are unlikely to repeat this performance.
As for India, this is a 'wake-up' call. Hope, the Sachin fantics do not take this as a signal to call him up.
more than that ott... and irrespective of result i was disappointed by the fact nobody showed any inclination to fight it out...
as if they knew the result before hand and the margin of loss didn't matter...
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