imagine...
when you have more than half the team which needs to be hidden in the field...
thanks to robbing singh...
when you have bowlers who bowl in hope rather than conviction...
when you are forced to accommodate another senior who again needs to be hidden in the field... can't find his way out to score... in the disguise of an answer to your short pitch problems...
you can easily understand the predicament of being dhoni... no wonder he is aging fast and has already grown some gray hairs...
wonder how dhoni still keeps cool... when one feels like throwing them in the pacific ocean... as bedi once famously said... after seeing them field like kids on a slippery ground... bowl like as if they are allergic to leather... hence it needs to be dispelled quickly without thinking where its going...
and still dhoni somehow wins you matches... against all these odds...
now you actually start to wonder...
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sorry guys...i was away for a while...on forced vacation...in the mid of world cup!! (you can easily understand my plight...)
it seems lots have changed...from being defending world champions...team india now have to defend themselves when they will return to india...against waiting media...
can't comment directly on...coz i missed all recent matches including india's (of which i was (un)fortunate to see last couple of overs of england's innings only)...but here are my thoughts based on perceptions....and some old whines in new bottle...oops...post...
against my wishes team india went on with the mind set of defending world champions title...rather than to win it...they played with the strategy of not losing rather than playing attacking cricket to win it...hence over emphasis on stability (dhoni and later jadeja coming in to 'consolidate' is the point in case...)
dhoni now has become prisoner of flexibility...and of late seems to have developed the knack of fiddling with careers of players (specially batsmen) which is getting increasingly uncomfortable and gaining dangerous proportions...
- he did not let badri settle into any kind of rhythm in spite of him winning a match single handedly for csk...
- successfully managed to mess up raina's great form...india's highest run scorer from recently concluded ipl...
- and his latest victim being poor ravindra jadeja...
while india paid the price of playing poor cricket by becoming the first team to exit from super8...i am wondering when robbing singh will pay the price of india consistently pathetic poor performances in fielding department...
i have been mentioning it for a while now at bored...that's why i call him
'robbing' singh...coz now his 'coaching' has robbed us a chance to win and retain world cup trophy...some guys are born with all the luck and permanent position of fielding coach in indian team...
but what about harbhajan singh...? of what little i saw...but for his dart bowling (he gave away 10 runs for leg side wides and also extra runs that were scored coz of wides...) we could have still won despite all the messing up from dhoni, jadeja and robbing singh's pupils...
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