May 29 men in blue were to leave for England for the t20 world cup. Dhoni was addressing the press conference and everything seems fine.They were the defending champions and favorites for another title.May 15 India lost to England by a whisker and with it out of the championship.In fact they never looked like a team who are being tagged as the main contenders.Most of the team members looked either jaded or fatigued.If one goes through the batting order of this team its difficult to believe tat this team is out of the race.Everyone is a match winner.But somehow the team never got going.Barring Yuvi none of the players played even half to their potential.The most curious case i feel is of rohit sharma.Somehow he never manages to play for his country.Give him some domestic matches or the IPL he ll score heavily bt wen it comes to INDIA simply ghanta he ll score.May be its time he's given more time to be cooked in the domestic circuits.Now tat team INDIA hav lost, its the first major setback for Dhoni as captain.Already the guns are out against his tactics and his effigies are being burnt.But i don think this is the ryt way to go.At the end of it we all should remember tat its just a game and losing is a part of it.Okay there were a few tactical errors and also the gamble he took did not paid of.But he has been using these all tactics n taking similar gambles from the time he became captain n has been very successful since. One thing tat we should not forget that dhoni has literally been on the run for almost a year and a half now.He s the captain of team INDIA,captains team Chennai in the IPL and also u can see him in almost every second AD on the television.Sooner or later it was going to take its toll n tat wats happned. Our super cool captain even lost his cool in one of the press conference.Captaining INDIA is not a mean job, a place wer almost evryone feels himself to be a cricket xpert.So i would just lik to tell people let us tak this loss in our stride and hope the team will bounce back stronger in future competitions.Lets support Dhoni in this hour of crisis.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

