Ellam dharalama aagum.
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Originally Posted by Plum
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Ellam dharalama aagum.
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Originally Posted by Plum
Annan is yet to be dismissed in this Asia cup. :clap:
he is yet to dismissed in the subcontinent after the worlcup final :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
Small correction - after the worldcup semifinal :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
Singham Singham
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Vinod,
Whats there in the video? It has been removed by the uploader I guess.
Dhoni's six in Samuels' over. Wait pannunga, official channel-laiye vandhudum.
Cometh the hour, cometh MS Dhoni
CSK entered the play-offs because they were lucky. Dhoni is not in form. Their batsmen have struggled. These were the talks doing rounds around the news when CSK qualified for the final 4, but the skipper made sure that everything was forgotten in a span of just 20 balls as he inspired his side to a memorable win over Mumbai Indians. It is not the first time that Dhoni has played an innings like this, especially in a pressure game like an eliminator. The skipper took the bull by the horn right from the word go and unleashed a brutal, relentless attack on the Mumbai bowling line up which took the Super Kings to a total of 187.
Dhoni walked into the middle after Hussey and Badrinath rescued the side from early trouble with a 94 run 3rd wicket stand. Dhoni’s first ball set the tone for the knock – he whipped Pollard with a wristy flick and sent the ball through the mid wicket fence. He didn’t look back after that, as he continued to bat in a positive manner despite a couple of wickets falling at the other end. In the process, he hit a couple of stunning sixes too – one off Franklin which went out of the stadium (and also the longest six of the tournament with 112 meters), and the other of Lasith Malinga where the skipper unleashed his helicopter shot to perfection and smashed the ball over deep mid wicket. None of the bowlers were spared as Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo put on an unbeaten 73 run stand off just 29 deliveries.
At the post match presentation Dhoni gave the credit to Hussey and Badrinath for reviving the innings, and also spoke in jest about his hairstyle which is giving him the runs. Dhoni also revealed the secret behind the helicopter shot, saying “I developed it while playing tennis ball cricket in my early days. The bowlers used to try and bowl yorkers and I developed this shot”
http://specials.cricbuzz.com/ipl/201...rmer/11254/147
http://newindianexpress.com/cricket/...icle539694.ece
Dhoni has the backing of Dravid..........
everyone is talking about team, players, collective success, failure and Dravid coming openly in support of Dhoni means the team is split wide open..........Dhoni's image probably grew bigger than the team which must rubbed off delhi camp in wrong places.......Quote:
Dravid argues that the debacle in England and Australia was a collective failure.
if BCCI has semblance of any management authority should either sack Dhoni camp or Delhi-6 camp - i cant imagine how gauti and dhoni can even see each other in dressing room.......
Wall is covering for IC :lol: seniors/Dilli gang are not keen on Dhoni's new mangager/ex-Ranji Player/benami..who is touted to be the most powerful guy in Indian cricket after Seenu Maama and even a player was picked solely on his pressure for India A tour of Windies and was later dropped owing to fitness.The benami company does the marketing/merchandising for CSK and this guy can be seen on all CSK matches...No idea how this guy got hooked to Dhoni and wielding so much power.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/co...yer/32688.html
Dravid is employed by Seenu mama. Why, recently, he flew down to a SOS by Seenu mama in the palayampatti shield final, turning out for ijay CC.
It is futile blaming the dilli camp alone - it could be that Dhoni with his poor outside-the-comfort-zone personal performances, including a pathetic tour of England as a keeper, and an almost equally below-par on to Australia, has lost his respect in the team, atleast among the senior, establishe dones. Now, you could question Viru, Gauti etc what they tore outside sub continent but in their minds, they have past performances outside the sub continent while Dhoni has barely any.
Unfortunately, luck is ccming a full circle for Dhoni. A loss against England in India in this year's test tour will be the nadir. It has to be seen if Dhoni and/or Seenu mAma survive that calamity.
Having said that, it is true that Dhoni cant be blamed much for the 8-0 just as he doenst deserve much credit for the #1 ranking. Basically, the #1 ranking came from a black swan performance by the big 4 batsmen and before that, Kumble and Bhajji's sa;ad days. Dhoni, usually in the right place at the right time, ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time this time.
Very well said. Totally agree.
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Originally Posted by Plum
Plum, Ashwin skippers Vijay CC..Seenu Maama is closely following our discussion :-)
With Saha showing his mettle with the bat in India A tour..yam hoping Dhoni saves the trouble and retires from tests to prolong his successful Odi career...to captain the national for 5 yrs with burden of wkt keeping is too taxing..he has seen the highs and lows of Indian cricket has to offer in a span of 6 months..about time we moved onto a new leader.
if i remember right, Sehwag, gambhir are not in good books of delhi heavy weights Arun Jaitley either........its even more worrying if BCCi head is battling with couple of hot heads in the team with a retired player's help....its like my CEO is trying to protect me with some of our ex employees instead of sacking me or the other guys.........if IPL is influencing so many things - thatha batting for gauti, ding maama batting for thoni with help of indiranagar indian - the god save test cricket in India.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
outside comfort zone - nobody has done well.....gauti, sehwag ellam solli solli thookirukkaanga in SA, Aus, Eng......but you are right, the grumbling must have been there from Dhoni's successful days and they seldom have any avenue to vent their opinions - srikanth maama, pawar, dingu maama are not going to hear anything against thoni.......they have history of bring DDCA to their knees for some days and its turn of BCCI....Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
luck - i know this is the pet peeve for all people who want to see dhoni's scalp.............im sure gauti and sehwag dont think any different.......its imbibed in psyci of many people that whatever he got is due to his luck and has got more than what he deserves even after he has done so much.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
its been almost 6 yrs of captaincy and one of the formats must be taken away from Dhoni - its been too much for thala.......add this to IPL and must perform pressure from dingu maama for past 5 yrs.......but when u ask for dhoni's head in keeper's post, u r asking for the steepest punishment for any top rung player........even ur fav gilchrist and my fav mark boucher have had couple of bad away series.......i cant see anyone except healy having so much consistency.......and saha is no healy - dinesh karthik madhiri waste-a pogaama, konja naal groom panni kondu varalaam........he must be phased inQuote:
Originally Posted by wizzy
world cup final in front of home crowd, chasing 275 with sachin and sehwag out in pavillion......yes, right place and right time dhaan :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
now if team wins series against england - "dingu maama buys ECB" allegations will come up with some make my trip ticket and hotel booking details of swann or strauss.......
Maddy, I would cut some slack on Dhoni the batsman in tests overseas and asking your wkt keeper to hold fort in batting after 2 days of Keeping/top order failing every single time is pushing it a tad..Dhoni unlike Gilly/Boucher was never a natural wkt keeper and he was chosen when the likes of Parthiv/D(k) were proven to be a liability in keeping. Dhoni was deemed 'safe' wkt keeper and it worked out like dream when you throw in his captaincy/butchering attacks on subcontinental conditions.
He was a safe option even in India's tour of Eng/OZ '07 but now his wkt keeping skills has deteriorated and started to hurt our newbie test bowling attack. Its already been well established how Dhoni never fancies keeping up to quickies and prefers to stay way back which wrecks our slip catching+his hesitancy in stretching his lower back whilst going for those in-between catches to first slip..we are looking at a serious liability in wkt keeping. Dhoni for reasons unknown never goes through the wkt keeping drills so I can't see his wkt keeping skills improving to warrant a place in the test side.
When Gilly's wkt keeping skills started to wane in our 2007 series he called it quits before the selectors could raise a finger..Gilly unlike Dhoni still goes through the drills and his reflexes are good when you consider his age but keeping against quickies in tests is a completely different challenge..same is the case with Boucher who is a gun wkt keeper for starters and whatever he does with the bat is secondary.
Whatever I said on Dhoni's wkt keeping skills stands true for his captaincy too..he is a damn good skipper in subcontinental conditions and more than willing to attack with an array of spinners at a semblance of a chance and knows when to hold back/defend but does neither and comes out a cropper when given the same task overseas with seamers/pacers so I have reasons to believe that his wkt keeping skills has some bearing on the way he captains the side..he seems to be far more at ease against spinners which shows in captaincy in subcontinental conditions.
Maddy - no use being emotional(seenu mama bought ecbnu solvAngo etc reaction). Romba dispassionate$a dhaanE pEsikitturukkOm. "Even after doing so muc? Testla? As wizzy said, succesful odi pla/captain - worked with limited resources even in odis but quite succesful. Not so in tests. Viru, if not AtG, has a lot of success outside sub continent comfort zone. Anyway, I expect Dhoni's test captaincy to hit a nadir with the upcoming England series in India. That should do for his test captaincy and hopefully, Seenu mama's prepsidency. Anyway, enough discussed. Curve is getting normalised. It will hit the mean and all hyper narratives can take a rest - both positive hagiographies and negative rants.
Seenu Maama is president till 2014. Adhu varaikkum onnum asaikka mudiyadhu unless the hearing brought by AC Muthiah is ruled against him in SC, which I don't see happening.
its not emotional at all - why Dhoni is still hailed the "oye lucky lucky oye" of Indian cricket...............Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
thats a unfortunate thing - why do we get such hopeless BCCI heads - not even one is really interested in aesthetics than commerce........and the worse, dingu maama always having CSK at the back of his mind, is a death blow to test cricket..........see, he does not even moral authority neither interest to whip the dissidents within the team......Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
Maddy, whats wrong in Dhoni being deemed 'lucky'..Dhoni would be the first one to acknowledge it..some of the decisions he had taken in the past did pay off but they were devoid of any cricketing logic and his stubbornness in proving his detractors wrong w.r.t team selection/batting order is well documented and it has cost the team dearly.
i dont believe in this delhi pasanga vs dhoni...everyone are playing for India and every one will try to give their best for the country...venumne ivan captain namma ivan pecha kekavenamna yosipainga?...even shane warne,gilly,waugh ivangellam udan pirapugal illiye...teamdhan mukkiyam..everyone would want to give their 100% for the team..and India just did not have a couple of bad series...it was the worst in Indian cricket history.....Dhoni,the manner in which he got out every time...:neutral:...test quality ellam illinga...i think he will also be remembered as a great limited overs player and a great captain at that
MSD pockets 26.5 million USD an year. He is 31st on the list of top earning sportspersons in the globe. He earns more than Sachin,Usain Bolt and Djokovic.
Source: Forbes
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Onnumae therla Ajay. Ennanu sollunga.
It has Chennai map with the tagline 'The Heart of Chennai'.
keeper - uthappam ?
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RR,
Thats not the keeper. Its a fielder. Keeper often stands behind the batsman and not the bowler. :wink:
Its not Uthappam.
oh..no .. athu bowling end'a .. :lol:
looks like during some holiday in ooty...
nallaa palakkappatta area....
^could be Kodai..Seenu Maama often retreats to Kodai Golf club in the summer.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/imag...d/dhoni_ap.jpg
Wishing the captain a very happy birthday and many more wonderful years ahead. :thumbsup:
Happy Birthday Mahi! Wishing you good health and great success in future assignments :thumbsup:
Happy Bday Singham. Central-la irunthu aayiram prachaingal vanthalum namakku State irruku. Vazhthukkal.
Mahi, the only reason to watch cricket for....birthday wishes