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Ian Chappell on the captaincy styles of Jayawardene and Dhoni | Opinion | Cricinfo Magazine | ESPN Cricinfo
An article with is true
The article is based around how obvious it was that Jayawardene inspired and boosted his team, and expected and claimed high performance, while Dhoni only started to do that once the ODI cricket started. The article hypothesizes as to why, and it might not be wrong. It was definitely obvious that Dhoni seemed to back himself to lead his young ODI team, but seemed to sweep off his old charges received in the Tests. He should be in the attitude where he can light a fire below any individuals but he doesn't seem to and it might be because of the names he's managing with in the Test team.
The article does consider as to the humor of Indian cricketers and a lack of "honest review", probably due to the almost complete sloth selection-wise through two series of white-wash, unless you add up not picking your best bowler from the England series for the Australian one. Perhaps further increased by the statements made by BCCI about how future series against England and Australia will be a upturned results, all based off the huge change of the series being 'at home'. Or Gambhir putting particular Australian performances down purely to being at home, rather than quality performance. It's not beyond the fields of possibility to see a need for more honest attempt to performance.
To my mind the team is at moment of truth. The team needs a arduous shake up and it will happen soon enough, I suppose. But the Australian tour was perhaps a bit early for it given it would have extended to shy the baby out of the bathwater into a creek. Given the choice between a batting line up of the other youngsters, there was going to be only one winner.
An article with is true
The article is based around how obvious it was that Jayawardene inspired and boosted his team, and expected and claimed high performance, while Dhoni only started to do that once the ODI cricket started. The article hypothesizes as to why, and it might not be wrong. It was definitely obvious that Dhoni seemed to back himself to lead his young ODI team, but seemed to sweep off his old charges received in the Tests. He should be in the attitude where he can light a fire below any individuals but he doesn't seem to and it might be because of the names he's managing with in the Test team.
The article does consider as to the humor of Indian cricketers and a lack of "honest review", probably due to the almost complete sloth selection-wise through two series of white-wash, unless you add up not picking your best bowler from the England series for the Australian one. Perhaps further increased by the statements made by BCCI about how future series against England and Australia will be a upturned results, all based off the huge change of the series being 'at home'. Or Gambhir putting particular Australian performances down purely to being at home, rather than quality performance. It's not beyond the fields of possibility to see a need for more honest attempt to performance.
To my mind the team is at moment of truth. The team needs a arduous shake up and it will happen soon enough, I suppose. But the Australian tour was perhaps a bit early for it given it would have extended to shy the baby out of the bathwater into a creek. Given the choice between a batting line up of the other youngsters, there was going to be only one winner.
Exactly people criticize Mahendra Singh Dhoni but they dont realize that its not always the captain who things on field. Other people contribute too and if they dont then I guess Greg Chappel is right
Yes I think it was Ed Cowan who was talking about this in an article on cricinfo. Captaincy is a bit like an iceberg. You can only see the bit sticking out of the water ie. the on field stuff, but the bulk of a captains influence is off the field leadership.
I think with the development of coaches and analysts, you will find that TACTICALLY your captains will be very similar. eg. Michael Clarke and Shane Watson. Both get advised by Mickey Arthur and the analysts and only when a captain has a certain hunch will the tactics be any different. We are even at the stage where David Warner is talked about as captain. He has very little captaincy experience and would basically be handheld tactically by the support staff. But he's seen as a natural leader, so he can be plugged in as captain without being particularly smart tactically.
So yeah, the real difference between captains is in the dressing room. And that makes it impossible for fans to judge. If Dhoni has the respect of the players and they play hard for him, isn't that good enough?
But interesting to hear Chappell down on Dhoni. 4 years ago Ian Chappell was telling anyone who would listen about how awesome Dhoni was AS A CAPTAIN. Good to see even a stubborn bastard like Chappell can change his opinion
