World Cup winning teams and & their Captain's Contribution.

thats a valid point. i went and checked and found dhoni was involved in 3 40+ partnerships. ok lets go by each and ever sentence. true dhoni is captaining a team which is overflowing with batsmen.does that mean he should take it easy with his batting skill? even yusuf has hit 2 century and one alsmot match saving 70 coming after dhoni.then why can't Dhoni? being a floater and changing the course of the game.you are right.he did change the game but that was way too long ago. remember the last time dhoni batted india to victory.you should go a year back. these days he is changing the course in favor of the opposition team with the poking stuff. lol.seems everytime dhoni shows faith in someone,they dont stay in the team long like jadeja,chawla and even raina for a while. now why should i care about how he doing with the team off the field and during practice? thats why gary is in the team to do all those motivational stuffs. if dhoni is only good with these motivational stuff and keeping the team united,he could do that by being the assitant coach. what we want is to do it on the field. as for captaincy,sachin failed earlier because he expected his team to perform at his level which is almost impossible.he did score well during his captaincy. no one has ever found anything wrong with sehwag's captaincy.he just didn't like it. as for yuvi,he was never the captain and wont mind it now. good point concerning ponting.he was given a good team. try saying honestly that india will remain in the top 3 in test cricket if sachin,dravid and laxman decide to hang up their boots? similar with ponting.you can't replace hayden,gilly,mcgrath or warne. how long will it take to get dhoni in ponting position since our main men are alreayd pushing 37? never ever compare dhoni with ganguly and pataudi. the man paid the price for his honest outspoken comments.better be a boot-licker.

Dhoni si not taking it easy , the batting surplus is making things easy for him. But he is not out of form, that is good. People have to be given chances and failures do happen, imagine if Chawla and Jadeja had utilized the chances given. Raina has shown the hunger whereas Yusuf is missing out. Our bowling would have been more attacking had Jadeja and Chawla succeeded. Dhoni is a leader and has the guts to comment about bad performance and bad behavior. Sreesanth was one example, he was told to behave. He also told his middle order to not play fancy shots to please the crowd. That was after the loss to SA. Never ever compare to Pataudi and Dada, why? Are they Gods? When Dhoni finishes you will realize what he has achieved.Anyway your reaction on this is emotional so you can stick to your view ihave no issues. Ponting is guilty of being arrogant and abrasive. He had alocol dependency problems much earlier in his career and is known to be volatile and reactive.If you speak the truth then there is a point in being outspoken but Ponting is not above board and is known to fight and whine and complain when things don't go his way. India will be in the top 3 when the trio retires but may slip a notch or two, that si acceptable because those shoes are too big to fill at short notice.But then the three are fading away gradually and replacements will have the time to fill in adequately. Pujara,Rohit,Vijay will measure up in good time. Dhoni is firm and stands by his boys like he has done with Chawla, Ashwin,Yuvi.He is no boot licker and has openly castigated his senior players when needed. Dhoni will definitely coach but that will have to wait.A captain has to act like a coach and he is more than qualified to be a good coach but that will have to wait for quite some time.

seems our debate on whether he is inform or not,will never be over. try explaining why chances were given to chawla and jadeja when no many had any idea why they are in the team? bringing chawla out of the blue into a major tournament when he is out of the team for almost 2 years? explain... what WAS the role of jadeja in the team? a bowler who can bat a bit or a batsmen who can bowl a bit? because he bowled econimically when he was suppose to bat out of situations. thats not i call giving chances to people.it is plaing adamant about his choice. why no other chance was given to sree when 3 chances were given to chawla? he is out spoken and even i was surprised when he given those statement and thinking our captain has got backbone. pataudi and dada may not be gods to you but for many they are. the thing i said about being outspoken.i meant it for dada and not ponting. and ofcourse i see you sidestep some of my other questions too (for doubts check again ) as for emotional,i am an india,i love cricket .do the math.the answer will probably emotional.

Actually he surprised me by throwing the ball to Sachin in the quarters against the Aussies. Cheers! Ram

not like that. lets assume india and srilanka makes it to the finals. if india has sehwag and sachin for opening,they have thranga and dilshan doing a very good job. india has a somewhat underperforming middle order except for yuvi and gambhir. same with srilanka.except for sangakara and mahela,the rest is weak. they have a better bowling side with 5 main bowlers while india has 3 performing bowler,a performing part-timer in yuvi and what-i-am-going=to-do bowler in munaf. so pretty much they are same. heck when comparing captains,its neck to neck. yeah in india we do have a hype about dhoni's midas touch but not many in international arena will say that sanga is a bad captain. so what will decide the main one? the captain form which goes in a long way helps the team rather than hope for others to perform. thats why this discussion.

Stardust At the top you have gambhir and kohli after the openers, that is a plus. lower down you have yuvi,dhoni and raina. if Bhajji performs with the bat even tail becomes effective.Ashwin is no rabbit with the bat. In bowling Sachin, Raina and Sehwag can do what Yuvi si doing and that what Dhoni is going to do in the remaining matches.Munaf and Nehra may sit out the remaining matches.But all the seamers will be trying their best to get into the team. Dhoni is not out of form , if Ponting could score a ton Dhoni can come up with a crucial half century. Lankan bowling is awesome. Herath, Murli, Malinga are great but Murli may be unfit and not play the next one.