I think i was little harsh on Collingwood and England in my previous post Spirit of the Game .... Dead ???
After looking into other reports and post match report (repeatedly shown in ESPN) pointing that NewZeland players were equally unsportive in not coming to the customary handshake after the match even after collingwood waiting in front of the NZ dressing room for more than 5-10 minutes. The NZ players action only confirms my scary thought of Sprint of the game being killed by the new generation players.
AsiaCup-2008
It has been in the expected lines so for in the AsiaCup-2008, thanks to the curators for providing such flat /dead tracks that all the games are high scoring games. It has been great batting display from Sehwag,Gambhir,Raina,Mallik,YounisKhan,Sangakarra,Kapali over the past few days. Srilanka with the win against pakistan is sitting comfortably in the super four and its pressure for pakistan to win all the games in the remaining matches of the tournament.
We all understand that its tough on the players in this time of the year in pakistan and the schedule has been very tight for few teams. The schedule is arrived well in advance and the boards are aware of this and the players know what is expected from them, there is no point in cribbing on the schedule for poor performance on the field. Indian bowling and fielding has been pretty ordinary for the past few months and Dhoni blaming the schedule for the stick they got against Bangladesh is not welcome. These are the same guys who were fit for the IPL in the peak of the summer and played back-back semi-finals and finals. I think the pressure of captaincy is slowly catching on with Dhoni, his reply to the lose in the kitply cup and this response here is not going to do any good for him. After all its early days for him, one can imagine how difficult it would have been to former captains who have been in the helm for so long like Azharuddin and Gangully, hope Dhoni learns quickly from these great captains to cope with captaincy pressure.
Spain Wins European Cup After 1964
It was planning and execution by the less fancied Spain with the solitary goal from Torres. Germany with all the big names could not net the ball even once to make a match of it. Spain in all probability looked the best team in the tournament and its great to see them win the cup.
3 comments:
Vasu,
I don't accept that captaincy pressure has caught Dhoni. He is able to bat India out of crunch situations which none of the previous Indian captains including Sachin & Ganguly have failed to do. This is one great example for the way in which he handles the pressure situations on field. Coming to the off field activities like facing the camera I don't Dhoni is an expert like Ganguly. This in particular makes us feel like he is under pressure.
This is just the very early stages of his career as a captain. Lets hope he learns how to handle the media quickly.
Well said Abimanyu. He is handling the captaincy pressures well. which is evident from the way he bats amidst the ruins in some matches. He also takes the responsibility and comes up the order and more often than not succeeds in his intent. Just because of few not-so-clever answer in front of the mike, means that he may not be too good in facing the mike and not that he is not handling the captaincy pressures.
Also he didnt shoo away from the match citing the busy schedule. Only after winning the match, in the post match conference he said so, which shows that he did the task and then stated the difficulty he faced. He never stated the difficulty and drop out of the task.
Seems you guys are die-hard fans for Dhoni, even i am one among you guys but as a captain comments like these does not reflect well IMHO.
As i had mentioned, its early days and all that i wish is that he does not point reasons which is out side of his control.The post match comment on bad schedule came when asked about the 90+ runs scored by Bangladesh in the last 10 overs, i feel its quick escapisim. Captain is the face of the team and in the sub-continent you guys are worshiped like god and people expect captains to accept bad performance rather than make up for that.
As i said its too early for Dhoni as a batsman and captain, so i don't think there can be any comparison with giants like Sachin and Ganguly.
Please point the games which Dhoni single handedly won for India in his short carrier ?? I do accept that he is good all round player and gets the team gel nicely and its too early to take him to the clouds.
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