After India's third successive Super 8 exits, voice over axing Dhoni has grown strong.Former
Indian team has performed exceedingly well under Dhoni. The same crictics had hailed him as the one of the best captains.I understand that recent overseas performance especially in Tests were not up to the mark. A captain is always as good as his team and when the team is not performing to its potential, there is little a captain can do.Having said that a captain should shoulder much of the blame for he is is the man in charge when team takes the field.But to drop him after couple of series loss is totally unfair.One should not forget that it was under him,India became the number one Test team. We were crowned WC champions in both T20 and ODIs under his captainship. He has proved to be an inspirational leader and reamins cool under pressure. His calmness even in pressure cooker situation has earned him the tag of Captain Cool. He has built a team which doesn't bog down under pressure and always is ready for challenges.Add to that his performance with the bat is not really bad. In ODIs, he has been one of the best match finishers for India. His average in Tests is ordinary,but thats mainly because he comes into bat lower down the order.
cricketers and so called cricket pundits have come up of theory of having different captains
for different format.Some even believe that dhoni should have been stripped of his captaincy
after the debacle in Australia itself .Though everyone is entitled to have his opinion but I just want to put forth one question to them : Do we have a replacement?
Indian team has performed exceedingly well under Dhoni. The same crictics had hailed him as the one of the best captains.I understand that recent overseas performance especially in Tests were not up to the mark. A captain is always as good as his team and when the team is not performing to its potential, there is little a captain can do.Having said that a captain should shoulder much of the blame for he is is the man in charge when team takes the field.But to drop him after couple of series loss is totally unfair.One should not forget that it was under him,India became the number one Test team. We were crowned WC champions in both T20 and ODIs under his captainship. He has proved to be an inspirational leader and reamins cool under pressure. His calmness even in pressure cooker situation has earned him the tag of Captain Cool. He has built a team which doesn't bog down under pressure and always is ready for challenges.Add to that his performance with the bat is not really bad. In ODIs, he has been one of the best match finishers for India. His average in Tests is ordinary,but thats mainly because he comes into bat lower down the order.
Lets have a look at the replacements we have. Gautam Gambhir, has become a strong contender after leading his team to IPL glory. But after the IPL finals, Gambhir is struggling with his form therefore not ideal to lead the team Viru, owing to his attitude has already let the team down and its not helping his batting either. Virat Kohli is definately is in his form of life but he is too young to be burdened with captainship. No doubt, he has already captained the U-19 team to World Cup victory but leading a team at senior level is a different proportion altogether. Moreover, captaining a team like India brings in additional pressure with it which might affect his batting thats the last thing Indian team would want at this stage. End of the day we are left with no choice but stick to Dhoni. He is the best man to lead the team owing to his experience. Meanwhile, we can groom Kohli for the future. I have no doubt in stating that Kohli is the future captain in the making but we should give him a couple of years. We have a fairly young test side which needs a captain with strong wit and conviction as a result of which Dhoni fits in quite well. He has a cool head which is ideal thing to have when you are playing for India where cricket is religion so passion soars sky high. We had failed miserably in tests while playing abroad but it was not because of poor captainship. It was more because we were under prepared and we did not have sufficient practice matches to acclamatise to the conditions.We showed that what we are capable of when NZ toured India. Dhoni is here to stay as a captain of India for a couple of more years.
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