Holy hell .. I am sorry, I did not read the whole thing but got the gist of it.
First of all, you are being a little too dramatic. No one here is deriding MSD's success at home. But we get it .. he has an excellent record at home. Well done. We make as much of a big deal when we beat teams at home. So all this hoopla about "Indian fans not placing enough value on home wins" is false. Either way, can we move on and try achieving something more ? Or are we really just happy with this ? I am pretty sure Dhoni and his boys aren't.
About the "Dhoni witch hunt" - I think you are forgetting how much of a leeway the Dhoni-Fletcher combo has gotten. They have had tremendous support from both the board and the fans, despite producing some horrific results. Losing to England 2-1 at home tops that list for me and was worse than the 8-0 horror run. But Dhoni has been persisted with and he has made some amends. Once again, I have nothing against Dhoni the player, the captain or the wicketkeeper. But as long as he is captaining all three formats, we will never have a captain ready for use and will be back to the rebuilding phase. I dont mind that either .. because it is nothing new as an Indian cricket fan.
We could (and will) keep Dhoni as the captain and supposedly hammer West Indies into oblivion, or put faith in our future captain candidate and risk "not hammering" West Indies.
PS: That "quote" was not sarcasm. Its the truth. That is the mentality we all have, and is reflected in your defense
Oh the truth is too dramatic for you. There was no defence of anything just a lot of facts put out there. I wonder why you chose the word 'defense' to describe that, did it put you on the defense with MSD witchunt.
ALL teams win at home and lose away. MSD since the tour of SA has won one test 1 and lost 5, and yet you are all dissing him. Clarke last year lost 7 won nil, and yet he was captain genius for you. Leeway ... How many aussies were calling for his head on that horror run.
Clarke won the Ashes at
Home after losing 7 matches away, did the Aussies all say of its a fking useless home win. You have double standards for juding performances, for India winning at home lets look down upon it, other teams though, its okay to win at home after a poor away run, but if MSD wins at home after a poor away run, we should just sack him for winning at home. Fking hilarious.
Honestly tell me, do you think Kohli should be made captain. I mean his form is nearing droppable, forget rewardable, and MSD who has to lead this rabble of a batting line up, should be sacked and the person who has been the biggest embarrassment of all these batsmen, Kohli, should get his place as a reward for being the most disappointing batsman India have had on any tour recently. If you do then I don't know what to say.
Also do read that post in its entirety, it will actually help you clear you bias against Home Wins in test matches. Sure its great to win away, but home wins are just as important.
And achieve more how, with this team, do you think any captain can win if the batting line up cannot bat 30 overs and innings. Do you
really think that changing the captain is the magic solution to India's batting problems. Sack MSD and poof, suddenly everyone will figure out how to face the swinging ball and will be tonking Anderson and Broad in Eng conditions for a six every delivery.
I mean if that is going to happen then hell lets sack MSD right away, what is the BCCI waiting for.
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Its almost as if he suddenly decides there are better things he could be doing and say okay, I am outta here.
