MS Dhoni - The most successful captain of India

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sathya, I dont know the causes but fact is Dhoni's wicket-keeping in this test has been absymal. I put it down to the workload he has been subjected to. I think we may have killed the Golden Goose with the IPL. IPL is fun, sure, and I think I quite enjoyed it so far but it is killing our test #1 ranking and the chance to be a great test team. This is evident no more than in Dhoni's case. He is not as bad as this test has shown him up as a keeper and batsman.

As a captain, too, opening with Raina after Lunch reminds one of the similar instance that catapulted him to fame as captain - that of Ricky Ponting using Mike Hussey to quicken the over rate leading to Dhoni's first test series win. Within 2 years, he himself has fallen to the same syndrome. Atleast, Ponting took 5 years to reach that state.

I can only put that down to his over-worked brain.