Dhoni the Blame Boy
By easegiri
@easegiri (70)
India
June 3, 2008 12:46am CST
Those who have been following the interviews of the captian's post match would have noticed that when defeated Dhoni always used to blame the other players when in actual the fingers point directly to him for the failure.
Almost in all matches apart from the captaincy Dhoni had a hand in it.
And in final when he did the same thing - that is bringing Kapugedera instead of Badrinath and scoring some 20 to 25 runs less in the slog overs he cooly blamed the coach. And then he went on defend the coach telling that there was nothing wrong in it and it only did not click to-day.
Mr.Dhoni's playing of his cards intelligently is not known to many.
If Wessels is asked about it he would say that the decision was Dhoni's.
But the point was that Dhoni accepted it rather indirectly that it was a mistake and that plan did not click for the day.
But why to experiment in FINAL. What wrong has gone into the batting of Badrinath or even Goni for that matter. You do know very well that Kapugedera failed in his batting in the earlier matches then how did you came to the conclusion that he will click in the FINAL.
You have an explanation to do Dhoni for the vast Chennai Cricket Fans, who have these views running all over.
You have virtually gifted cooly the match to Warne and nothing else.
That 20 extra runs would have created more pressure on the batsman and they would folded up early giving a celebration all over in the Chennai camp.
It was a known fact that scoring around 160 on this ground is a match winning total in itself and to score more than that is a sure win.
But for the dropped catches and misfields and daredevil batting of Yusuf Pathan the 164 runs too could not have been within the reach of Rajasthan Royals.
Having known this you took it easy in not going for a kill by scoring that extra 20 runs.
We demand your resignation from Captaincy from Chennai Super Kings team for all the future matches and also the team itself, since your contribution is medicore compared to others. It was luck that some of the matches at crucial junctures was won. In all those matches it was the other players who brought the success, your contribution being negative.
Leave us alone.
A fan of Chennai Super Kings.
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6 responses
@babray06 (1787)
• India
3 Jun 08
I must say, according to my understanding, this is a great observation. Why I am saying this as a great observation because, not many people have observed this and it is not many times it has happened.
Every captain makes some strategy related decisions or on-field observation related decisions which sometimes prove very costly. In case of not bringing Badrinath early may be one of those kind of decisions.
As I have not seen the post match conferences I can not comment on exactly what he has said, but as a capatain the first priority of one should be to bond everyone like in a family and give enough confidence so that one can perform to the best of one's ability.
Shane Warne's example comes into my mind first because it's just only a few days since we have seen what he has achived. Shane Warne, I feel, has surprised so many people. I think, probably for many it can be a lesson on Captaincy.
I also feel Sourav's captaincy during his India Captain tenure was also great where the bonding was great in the team.
Regarding Dhoni's captaincy and his overall behavior I am not comfortable at all, particularly his views (or lack of it) on Seniors give me pain and sometimes I wonder does for some age stops increasing?
I liked your post and thought to respond. I hope I have not taken much space.
@easegiri (70)
• India
3 Jun 08
I agree that Gangulay's captaincy was good and went along well with his team mates.
Though Gangulay is an emotional exited person he has charisma within him that rightly he is called Prince of Kolkatta.
His form if not waned Dhoni would not have had chance to captain India. Even otherwise if Dravid or Yuvaraj had been good in batting then they would have taken the captainship.
But his captainship is not that we are worried about now, but his cunningness, his attitude to throw out some of the players and keep flocks around him who perform a little lower then himself.
As for as I saw he has been giving wrong advises during ongoing partnerships between himself and other batsman. In the final match in iplt20 what forebade him to ask Kapugedera to go all out and smash balls out of the ground. There were wickets in hand and Kapugedera was playing either dot balls or was taking singles. Dhoni could have advised him to go after bowling, but he did not, why? It is because he did not want Badrinath to take the centre stage and overshadow Dhoni's batting. Dhoni for himself he did not want to loose his wicket and get bad name so he was going slow taking singles or playing dot balls.
These are my other observations....very deep observation.
@babray06 (1787)
• India
3 Jun 08
I fully agree with your observations regarding Dhoni. My guess is it will not be long before these things create complexes among other players and it reaches to a point when the who's who of Cricket in India will take a note of it. Till that time he can enjoy his good time.
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@pkc3000 (1266)
• India
6 Jun 08
dear easegiri You have rightly explained your views. One of our friend Mr bhadani rightly expressed that dhoni is only playing his card intelligently . He has no captain ship quality . But luck favoured him to reach IPLt20 final. Blaming others his habit so as to escape from criticism.
pkc3000
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@easegiri (70)
• India
9 Jun 08
He is a cool cunning boy, possessing tantrik spell with him.
Maybe the BCCI is hand-in-glove with him, just for the sake of making money.
Years back it was Azarudding the unpatriotic captain who had the Board behind him and he was cooly betting and earning money. He used to instruct his team mates how to go about loosing their wickets and loose the match. He used select his team and yes, yes head shakers. Once he had nearly 7 to 8 Karnataka players in his team. Everybody played for the bookies according to their instructions. Azaruddin for his part used to come to the crease and play a short good runs and was getting name. The BCCI was supporting him. It was Prabhakar who brought out everything to the fore. And Prabhakar later was trapped with some false cases lodged on him for his efforts.
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
3 Jun 08
yes my friend i agree with you to the full. that things that he stated was not at all from a good and resposinble captain. he made quite a few mistakes in the batting order and that costed him a lot and also when you win if you get the credit then when you loose then it is you who have to take the responsibility. you cannot just pass the blam to others. this is what a true captian should do and he did just the opposite. i think this is very bad from him
@easegiri (70)
• India
3 Jun 08
Do you remember the post match comments of Dhoni in a match against Delhi Daredevils where Dhoni almost lost the match to Delhi Daredevils scoring 33 runs of 33 balls. In which match Vidyut scored 40 runs of 23 balls.
In this match Morkel had hit 30 runs of 15 balls which really turned the match to Chennai's favour, when Dhoni was struggling and struggling to take runs.
It was a great relief when Dhoni was out for everybody, especially Chennai fans. It was a sorry sort of things watching him missing all the balls. The relief came in the 19th over. 22 runs were to be scored in 10 balls when he left. The players that were left to do it was Badrinath and Gony. 7 runs were scored in three (but four) balls of that penultimate over. 15 runs still remained.
Shoaib Malik was the bowler, the first ball was lofted for a six by Goni. Next ball was wide and the third (but second) ball was edged for third man for four. Next a single was taken leaving 3 runs of 3 balls. Badrinath just put the bat slowly and skied the ball over cover when the fielders thronged around him. Two runs were taken. Scores were level. Again Badrinath slowly lofted the ball over midwicket in no man's land. The fielder had to run all the way to just touch the ball. Single was taken and match won.
Now comes the JOKE of the day.
Ironically Dhoni is declared Man-of-the-match. Vidyut's 40 runs of just 23 balls in the opening is considered bad Flemings 44 runs of 28 balls goes to dust bin, Morkel's 30 runs of only 15 runs and his two wickets is not counted, but Dhoni's struggling match loosing score of 33 runs of 33 balls wins him man-of-the-match.
In post match comments after taking Man-of-the-match award, Dhoni has this to say.
"If I had been not out I would have finished the match in the penultimate over itself".
What a compliment to Badrinath and Gony who finished the match for Chennai.
Shame on you Dhoni to recieve the Man-of-the-match award and boasting things which you are not capable of.
@alcazar (761)
• India
3 Jun 08
I agree with you man...if badrinath was sent instead of kapudangera ...the situation might have been a lil different...but still those could have been compensated if raina wouldnt have dropped that catch of yousuf pathan at 13 ...who went to play the match winning innings....
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@easegiri (70)
• India
3 Jun 08
It is true that the match certainly would have turned into Chennai's favour if the catch had been taken. But these were all secondary in nature. That was pardonable because it was not a straight forward catch.
Even Vidyut who had shoulder pain, cramp and problems of such nature could not move that quick and gave away at least two runs which in itself we can say cost the match. But that was again pardonable.
Again in the final over Patel could have collected the ball and run out either Tanveer or Warne which in itself could have applied pressure and at least a tie could have been the result. Again pardonable.
The return catch that Goni did not take again a difficult one.
But the one that is never pardonable is knowing very well that Badrinath is a match winner and he has won the match earlier in the league match against Kings XI Punjab when he scored 64 runs in just 40 balls which was a match winning score and in other match against Mumbai he scored 53 runs of only 33 balls when the pitch helped bowlers and was the favourite pitch of Jayasurya who won the match for his Mumbai Indians. In other matches he always remained not out batsmen scoring 8 runs of 5 balls or 11 runs of 5 balls both against Delhi Daredevils. He had been playing a selfless innings and was out in some of the other matches going for lofty hits.
So, I do know Dhoni what he is after. Very calculatively he has sidelined Badrinath. Lest Badrinath should have by now been in the Indian team. He also sidelined Vidyut when sending him downunder against Bangalore team which cost the match for Chennai. It was a good batsmen pitch and was the homeground of Vidyut. Are we such fools to not know Dhoni's tactics. He knows players like Vidyut and Badrinath if they knock the door his own place will become jeopardy in Indian team.
Cunning Dhoni, take responsibility and resign your captaincy and help Chennai Super Kings to win matches in future showing their full strength.
But money and politics plays so much in this part of the game that these things takes back seat.
Nobody worries about the sentiments of Chennai Fans. Money, money, money that is what everybody is after.
@pradeep_bhadani (60)
• India
3 Jun 08
Ya .........Dhoni is not having any terms of captenship.........he is only playing his tactics.............while playing for INDIA ..first he makes Ganguly to go out with the help of Rahul and when Sachin on rest he make Dravid to go out......and after Dravid when Yuvraj at his worst form then he hold Captain of INDIA.....
Dhoni is not playing for INDIA......he is playing for himself.........he is not a person who can hold "Captain" Position..........he is just a player........he is not god..he can't play in worst condition or when the team needs him most..........he plays few and takes credit all time.....
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@figjam00 (1445)
• India
3 Jun 08
When teams starts loosing the blame game starts. That's what Shoni was trying to do very slyly. Dhoni is a man who always trust his instincts and he did the same in the final of IPL. But his instincts were wrong and as a result Dhoni's men lost the match they could have easiily won.
