Dhoni and his BattLing Style

There was a time when Parthiv kept wickets. Failed against Aussies. Dropped.

Came RD , Wall and WK , awesome performance in WC ( thought will become Adam Gilli someday ) ,Xtreme pressure and comes in Dhoni.

Xplosive, awesome and score against Lankans cemented his place, more than a batsman than a Wk. What could be more embarrassing than a wk resting in a match and Karthik keeping the same. But the ascent of Dhoni’s cameo innings and as a match finisher saw him captain the side with less than 100 ODI s to his kitty. Like young blood , he drew the first line. Came to Xplod, to ruin the innings , the natural game they say. But Kricket is not played on field , an equal stamina eats off field. This is where Dhoni needs to learn a few lessons, probably he has not heard the English term “Keep your words Soft , just in case u need to chew them some day “ .

Now with burden of captainship , and with success of T 20 , I have seen Dhoni play softly. His strike rate has been lower than Dravid at different points in the match, and that he has not talked about it. There is a talk that Dhoni has improved his game and learn to stay at wicket , but when I see him Test matches ,I see him struggling. And I wont term it as he deliberately want to play slow, but the fact is He is not able to either pace up the innings or score fast.

If ODI and T20 are batsman dominated, Test is one format which is defined well, both for batsman as well as bowlers.

People can remember Dhoni for a long time , and his success in ODI and T20 will again help him climb back to Test squad (in case he is made to sit out sometime) , but then we have seem VS and UV , having success in one format and jumping to other. But the transition is mostly not smooth , and marred by insecurity in cricketing career. With IPL , ICL and England announcing Cricket league soon , the careers of many people are at stake. Its very right time for Dhoni to understand that though team success can help him being in this team for sometime, but the day Indian team undergoes a bad patch , he will also be thrown off like Gangzz was.

There are a few lessons to learn for Dhoni , wrt captain from Azhar and Gangzz, wrt to batting from RD and Laxman and as an overall personality from SRT.



PS: personal opinion , and please NOM to Dhoni’s fan