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Dhoni stops short of denying resignation reports

Bangalore, November 22:: A selection controversy rocked the Indian cricket team on Saturday following reports that Mahendra Singh Dhoni had threatened to resign as captain after he had failed to ensure that bowler RP Singh was retained in the side playing the current ODI series against England. On the eve of the fourth ....Read more

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Is a captain bigger than the team India?By: Sajin Varghese | Sunday , 23 Nov '08 9:11:59 AM Reply | Forward The pride should not exceed over somebody’s head then the downfall begins. Selectors are doing their duty and their policy of ‘in-form’ players should be immediately get a chance has worked so well.Irfan Pathan,an allrounder,who is in tremendous form in domestic cricket suitable than out of form RP Singh. His performance has to be revived in domestic matches where his state team is more required his service. I don’t want to immaturely to point out that Dhoni is being ruled by overpride, however, he should think that selectors are pushing Virender Sehwag to the front-runner post of captain by elevating him as vicecaptain. Ravi Shastri has once said thand now swallowed that Sehwag is the right choice for the captain considering his tremendous form in all forms of games, whereas, Dhoni has to establish himself as a test batsman. But now the scene is different, he proved as good captain,but no captain is bigger than the team India.Nobody is irreplaceable as told to dhoni by BCCI President

Then why we are still selecting Dravid?By: Dinesh | Monday , 24 Nov '08 20:13:47 PM Reply | Forward I agree that inform players should be selected. But it doesnot happen in India other wise why Dravid is still in the team? He has not performed well in 7 straight tests. Is there anyother criterion or is it just a double standard. I admire Dhoni for not being puppet of losers (selection committee). That was the reason Tendulkar and Dravid had refused to be captains.

Let Dhoni Resign ..By: Sriram | Sunday , 23 Nov '08 8:37:09 AM Reply | Forward India is not winning just beacuse of Dhoni. It is the team spirit. Everyone is playing well EXCEPT R P Singh. His aweful bowling and irresponsible catch drops deserve him to be removed. If Dhoni wants to resign, let him do it. If not for Isahnt, Zahkeer, and Bhajji (on bowling) and Shewag, Yuvi, and Gambhir (on batting), Dhoni can NOT have won any of these games.

Selection By: vrisika | Sunday , 23 Nov '08 3:34:28 AM Reply | Forward Both Rp and Irfhan are good There shouldn't be any regional interest coming in the way for selection. Irfan is more experienced .

Dhoni stop short of By: Kumar | Sunday , 23 Nov '08 3:22:05 AM Reply | Forward Dhoni, just grow up , you have hardly double digit matches as captain,dont be stupid, pick the team on merit not on personal likings , game is bigger then the friendships, think about if you pik the people u like but they dont perform and u keep loosing games , whose head is going to be on the chopping board, ealrn the lessons from ohers , just think what happened to Ponting, he only lost few matches and people have start pointing fingers. SO dont be a dill but prove urself a gr8 players ans Captain. All the best and good luck as you ahve lot to offer to the Indain Cricket and to the game of cricket as a whole.

Dhoni is attacking seclallular forces in committee, it is their duty to ensure communal hindus loseBy: Sec Lallu Lar | Sunday , 23 Nov '08 2:49:42 AM Reply | Forward It is shameful the way communal Hindu Dhoni is attacking the person in committee who made the selection process transparent to encourage seclallularism. Every time a communal team loses and is demotivated by transparent leak, seclallular forces like Muslim Christian are strengthened. Otherwise, see how noble Chrisitian teams of Australia and England are losing, and how brave seclallular team of Paksitan is getting demolished. Is that good for our poor oppressed minority community true Indians like Muslim and Christian? NO! And now Dhoni is pointing fingers to minority community selectors who are trying to bring Patan and stop a Hindu captain from becoming too strong. Soniya ji must fire Dhoni from captaincy, and make cricket work like the seclallular Maharashtrian Anti Terrorist Squad which is also operating transparently about Hindu terrorists to media to promote communal harmony and seclallularism.

Bye Bye Dhoni!!!!!By: Sheev | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 22:58:41 PM Reply | Forward Hey Dhoni!!! I got words for you...selectors are doing there job and if you don't like which player they are picking then go back home and take care of your "TABELA". keep one thing n your mind who is paying your bills. do not dictate anyone and there are plenty of players like you in india. so shut up and play the game.and stop flying high you moron.

Without brain.By: Edie | Monday , 24 Nov '08 20:17:55 PM Reply | Forward You are the Greatest stupid on the planet. And you are dumbshit too.

Both have wrong in each sideBy: Jennifer | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 21:00:52 PM Reply | Forward I think he has his opinion to tell but not to the media to selectors. selectors should have intimate him .MSDhoni has good capitancy so he should not resign.

Selectors going for FormBy: Prakash Krishnagiri | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 20:26:12 PM Reply | Forward Dhoni is a good captain...agreed. Captain needs to have his opinion in the selection matters...agreed. But should the captain threaten to quit for the sake a out-of-form player-cum-friend? It is a know fact that RP and MS are very close friends. The selectors are only trying to pick games to win it. They are going for the man in form. They did the same when they picked up Vijay to open in the last test against australia. He was in form and they opted for him against Wasim Jaffer. Irfan Pathan is in form now, having had a good run in the domestic competitions, both with the bat and ball. With RP out of form, Irfan is a good option as he also bats better than RP and can be sent up as a pinch-hitter as well. I think MS is trying to push his new-found title a far too much. If he had not threatened to resign, he would have said a simple NO. Instead he is talking about leakage, which means he did threaten to resign. Surely he is cloud 9 and the 4th ODI goes to England.

Stupidity persistsBy: Anil Khare | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 23:10:45 PM Reply | Forward It is the same selectors who opposed Sehwag for so many years. They are still wrong, except their agenda is like politics without any consideration to sports.

DoctorBy: Dr Anuuj | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 18:42:14 PM Reply | Forward IT IS CLEAR THAT DHONI IS HAVING A DELUSION OF GRANDEOUR, HAVING WON THE SERIES AGAINST AUSTRALIA. HE WILL SOON FIND THAT WHENEVER THE TEAM LOSES, HE WILL BE GETTING THE STICK AND NOT BCCI. INSTEAD OF FOCUSSING ON WINNING THE GAME WITH THE POOL OF PLAYERS HE HAS BEEN GIVEN, HE CHOOSES TO MAKE AN ISSUE OUT OF THE OMISSION OF A PALYER WHO IS NOT IN FORM. THIS ATTITUDE CREATES DIVISION IN THE TEAM AND I WILL NOT BE SURPRISED IF INDIA LOSES THE NEXT MATCH DUE TO LACK OF FOCUS. MAKE YOUR POINT DHONI BUT DO NOT INDULGE IN FAVOURITISM. MAY BE MANY PLAYERS HAVE GOT RECOGNITION AT AN EARLY AGE HENCE THEY HAVE NOT LEARNT TO FAIL.

Can't anyone see the real culprit here?By: P Dalvi | Saturday , 22 Nov '08 18:32:04 PM Reply | Forward .... or am I the only one who sees a horribly irresponsible media that makes a mountain out of a molehill?Maybe we should start imprisoning the reporters and jailing the editors of these useless newspapers

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