Saurav Ganguly's reply to Dhoni's comment, "No team can have 11 good fielders"

I was very impressed by Ganguly's comment. I 100% agree with the comments. A team will not be a team with 11 fielders, there is a lot of other things required for a team. And even Aussies and SA are not completely filled with superb fielders. And Raina should improve his batting very much. And Dhoni need to rotate players who is out of form, even if it is an youngster.

not good it is excellent comment i think ganguly is right raina has to play good to make his place in the playing eleven .i think raina has to play well because he is out of form from many times.and dhoni said right but all indian team were scattered in pressure.

I think Dhoni is playing favorites by constantly backing under-performing players like Raina. Raina is no youngster. He is a experienced player who is getting repeatedly exposed on bouncy pitches due to his inability to play short ball well. I also feel his temperament is suspect. When tied down by good bowling, he tries to hit out of trouble and gets out. Rohit is no better. He appears very casual in his approach while batting. Honestly, I don't understand all talk in media about rift between juniors and seniors. There should be only one criteria for all and that is performance on the field. If you are not performing, then like Australia has shown you get booted out like Ponting. Someone would have to take that tough call. I feel Indian selectors lack vision and authority. They never interact and make clear in which direction team is headed and vision it has laid out. So when team starts losing, players start squabbling amongst themselves lest they be blamed for the rot. I just hope this a passing phase as when you keep losing, character of team is really tested. I also feel it is high time coach and manager of team on tours ensure better team management and help keep team united, otherwise hopes of turnaround would be a distant dream.

Saurav Ganguly is the best Indian captain so far and his views are sensible.What Dhoni is saying or doing is senseless and in fact he has created uncomfortable atmosphere within the Indian team itself.Players are not together anymore as seniors are separated from juniors now. It is really stupidity to leave out seniors or favoring only juniors as Dhoni is doing now and the results are there to be seen. This is not Dhoni's team but this is Indian cricket team which had to be built and maintained in a proper way and the pillar of this team will be seniors for sure as they have served for so many years and still players like Sachin are good fielders and calling him a bad fielder is a joke. Actually Dhoni is the worst keeper till now and he has no right to call others poor fielders when he himself is a worst fielder

Saurav Ganguly is a sensible player and he know about the cricket more than Dhoni did. In every team there is impossibility of having good 11 fielders. Same is true about the bowling and batting that all can't perform daily. About raina he is very much right, he need to be rested or say must be replace by some other and the time had came to paly fair and not domincate the cricket with your power what DHoni is doing.

yeah that was a very good reply by Saurav Ganguly .because dhoni wants superman in every player of his team.he thinks that every player bat well ,bowl well and also field well.well this is not going to possible any way .because team like Australia don't have 11 Good fielders.and whom dhoni pointing is prove their fielding.

i am not sure but didn't Dhoni actually lifted the world cup with these so-called slow senior players? why didn't he try rotating them then? after all,some young fresh legs will save 20-30 odd runs in the field during world cup and Dhoni might not have to hit malinga got six to win the match (may be he would ). something else made me laugh too.it was hayden's comment that slow fielders wont find a spot in the australian side. i wonder how macgrath held his place in the playing eleven for more than a decade. besides Dhoni is looking at it the wrong way. if he had tried this rotations when india were doing so perfectly before the england series.good. some would have critisized for changing the winning combo but it would have been for the future. now the batting itself is struggling these days and he worries about fielding. its pretty much like a person taking medication for cold when he has a heart problem.

Well Ganguly is correct, Dhoni always has different sets of rules for those who are close to him and those who are not.Both Raina and Jadeja have not done enough to earn a permanent place in the team and it seems they are in the team just as fielders.Since he is thinking about next World Cup as he , what is the need of spin all-rounder in the team.Extremely talented batsman like Tiwari and Rahane are being ignored continuously.However not being too critical ,i think Dhoni is not at all happy with performances of seniors ,especially Sehwag, so he is targeting them on the basis of fielding,whatever is the case ,all this drama is not good for Indian cricket at all.

I think our captain cool has finally lost his cool and making ridiculous comment. Almost the same team has brought the world cup home( well at least the players who he has mentioned had contributed a lot ). I think he is not being able to take the criticism regarding his rotation theory. That is the reason behind such comment. Definitely Ganguly know the game more better than dhoni and it is a great reply about which dhoni needs to think seriously. If a team get 11 excellent fielder and out of form batsmen, it will definitely lose like current indian team.