RAPTOR BLOG FOR SPORTS

Carrying the aspirations and dreams of millions of his fellow Indians, Dhoni should have been lot more careful about the teams coordination, strengths and weaknesses to have avoided such an embarrassing defeat at the ICC World twenty20, which surely would take ages for the captain to forget. With the fitness status of Virendar Sehwag posing a serious question to the team’s Victory Fator, the Indian team did have a rough and perplexed start. The fact that the opener failed to recover in time, did cause a serious backfire on the team. Dhoni got himself into a mess with his statement regarding the opener but he was right since it is the BCCI that normally issues a statement when a player is being rendered unfit. This created a misunderstanding between the media and the skipper thus making him the Bull’s Eye every time the team failed to perform.
The West Indians clearly exposed the weakness of the Indian Top-Order batsmen against short-pitched deliveries, thus leaving the Englishmen to exploit their weakness. The Indian batsmen who were strong at front foot drives had to set back foot every time since their weak areas were clearly out show. Moreover the inclusion of Ravindra Jadeja didn’t help much though he showed his best. Though Yuvraj held a psychological edge over Stuart Broad & company, Dhoni’s decision not to send him in earlier did reflect on the results. Having got a lesson to learn from, it’s really the time for Dhoni to realize that any captain’s cricket career cannot be a clean slate because it’s a field where things change in the blink of an eye and as a Captain he cannot afford to make even the slightest part of a mistake.