Gurjot95
National Board President
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2008
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Before writing something, I would like to quote some lines on his Cricinfo profile
With change in time, He was tested as captain and sent to T20 WC 2007 where he proved successful. He lead the team with underdogs title with all new youngsters, pressure of performing better and lead the team into glory. This was much needed victory for Indian Cricket Team after their horrible performance 6 months back in ODI World Cup. This was the start in creating a new face for Indian Cricket. After this successful Tournament, He became captain and won a CB series in Australia defeating much strong Australia by that time. Becoming a regular captain, he changed his batting style, from aggressive to Moderate batsman. His batting averaged increased but so his critics. After a disappointment season in T20 WC 2009, people started calling him selfish. He took all criticism and waited for right time. That time came in where he became a captain for Test team after Anil Kumble. A young test captain with much pressure on his head, playing with seniors he stayed calm and lead the team into 1st spot in Test Cricket in history. He won Border-Gavaskar Trophy, drew series with SA in away for 1st time and at home in Tests. Now he is successful International captain. His success wasn't only in international but domestic also where he won IPL and Champions League.
But his main test came in ODI World Cup. He was out of form in whole world cup with both batting and captaincy. His shocking decision cost us match against SA. But after that, he won Quarter final match against Australia, Semifinal against Pakistan leading into perfect finale against Sri Lanka. Being out of form in whole tournament, He came forward at batting at No. 3 and scored a 91* where Team once were struggling at 31/2 with both openers out and hopes of winning world cup were going down. His partnership with Gambhir gave India to grab their hands on World Cup. It was the moment which Indians were waiting for 28 years and it came with a six from Dhoni. He got a man of the match award in finals which couldn't get better for him. India became new world champions after 1999.
He received many criticism that he has a Luck but people need to remember that winning a lottery one time is luck but winning it every time is not. It may call as luck when someone takes risk and shocking decisions and those decisions goes in favor of him but it's needs very brave man to take it every time. The seeds which were sown by Ganguly, watered by his successors were eventually grown at time of Dhoni. Today India is one of the stronger team and unlike 90's they don't have to depend on Tendulkar performance. Today Dhoni is a successful captain in all formats. As fas as I know he has won all the multinational and domestic tournaments (more than 3 teams) atleast once under his captaincy which includes T20 WC, IPL twice, Champions League, Asia Cup and World Cup. Today India is No. 1 in Test and has ODI World Cup. He gave a shoulder to Yuvraj when he was struggling with his fitness and form, Today he is now World Cup, man of tournament. I feel proud that today my team is captained by a Cool head, have guts to take brave decision man.
Sorry for short article but this was my first article here. Apologies for all the grammatical mistakes but I will learn with time.
Scoring a duck in his ODI Debut just like Tendulkar, no one would have thought how this man will come out in future and eventually change the face of Indian cricket. The signs of his were shown in his 3rd match where he scored remarkable 148 against Pakistan. It was performance of clean hitting and extraordinary batting.
With change in time, He was tested as captain and sent to T20 WC 2007 where he proved successful. He lead the team with underdogs title with all new youngsters, pressure of performing better and lead the team into glory. This was much needed victory for Indian Cricket Team after their horrible performance 6 months back in ODI World Cup. This was the start in creating a new face for Indian Cricket. After this successful Tournament, He became captain and won a CB series in Australia defeating much strong Australia by that time. Becoming a regular captain, he changed his batting style, from aggressive to Moderate batsman. His batting averaged increased but so his critics. After a disappointment season in T20 WC 2009, people started calling him selfish. He took all criticism and waited for right time. That time came in where he became a captain for Test team after Anil Kumble. A young test captain with much pressure on his head, playing with seniors he stayed calm and lead the team into 1st spot in Test Cricket in history. He won Border-Gavaskar Trophy, drew series with SA in away for 1st time and at home in Tests. Now he is successful International captain. His success wasn't only in international but domestic also where he won IPL and Champions League.
But his main test came in ODI World Cup. He was out of form in whole world cup with both batting and captaincy. His shocking decision cost us match against SA. But after that, he won Quarter final match against Australia, Semifinal against Pakistan leading into perfect finale against Sri Lanka. Being out of form in whole tournament, He came forward at batting at No. 3 and scored a 91* where Team once were struggling at 31/2 with both openers out and hopes of winning world cup were going down. His partnership with Gambhir gave India to grab their hands on World Cup. It was the moment which Indians were waiting for 28 years and it came with a six from Dhoni. He got a man of the match award in finals which couldn't get better for him. India became new world champions after 1999.
He received many criticism that he has a Luck but people need to remember that winning a lottery one time is luck but winning it every time is not. It may call as luck when someone takes risk and shocking decisions and those decisions goes in favor of him but it's needs very brave man to take it every time. The seeds which were sown by Ganguly, watered by his successors were eventually grown at time of Dhoni. Today India is one of the stronger team and unlike 90's they don't have to depend on Tendulkar performance. Today Dhoni is a successful captain in all formats. As fas as I know he has won all the multinational and domestic tournaments (more than 3 teams) atleast once under his captaincy which includes T20 WC, IPL twice, Champions League, Asia Cup and World Cup. Today India is No. 1 in Test and has ODI World Cup. He gave a shoulder to Yuvraj when he was struggling with his fitness and form, Today he is now World Cup, man of tournament. I feel proud that today my team is captained by a Cool head, have guts to take brave decision man.
Sorry for short article but this was my first article here. Apologies for all the grammatical mistakes but I will learn with time.
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