Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Thats the way 'MAHI-VE'

Will the young Indian team prevail in testing New Zeland conditions?
Will the inexperienced team do what has never been done before?

Well, Dhoni’s men have silenced all these questions yet again. Although we got off to a bad start after the two horrible Twenty-twenty matches ,Dhoni’s positive mindset, calm appearance and great attitude towards the game he loves the most, inspired the young Indian brigade not to hang their shoulders down but to come back next game with better battle plans.

Dhoni in almost every pre- match press conference mentions that “the past is gone we cant change it . We will have to start from SCRATCH all over again”.that shows the sign of a positive captain.

From my point of view the best he has done to the team is that he has made everyone enjoy each others success. For example.
In the recently concluded India-England one day series, Sachin Tendulkar was going to return to the team mid-series after recovering from injury. Now somebody had to make way for the little master. Sehwag and Gambhir were in splendid form at the top.Yuvraj was on a roll after back to back centuries in the first two ODIs.Yusuf Pathan who was new to the team then , was doing a pretty good job lower down the order with the tail. The only two batsmen left were Rohit Sharma and Suresh Raina. Both were struggling to hit the right note against the pacy English attack. In the ODI before Sachin was to return Suresh Raina was on strike batting on 49*.Rohit Sharma had just entered the crease. The game was in India’s hands with a mere 10 to 15 runs to win ,with more than five overs to spare. Suresh Raina faced the next delivery. He got an edge to it and it went down to fine leg for a boundary. Raina was on top of the world because in such difficult times he finally got himself a hard earned fifty. Rohit Sharma very well knowing that this fifty of Raina will surely not assure a place in the side for the next game. He went running to Raina and gave him a big hug . And “ENJOYED HIS SUCCESS……..”

Another great quality in Dhoni is that he will never take the credit for any thing after winning the game.If you see in most of the team pictures taken after the 20-20 final,with a board saying 'CHAMPIONS' in front of the team. Suprisingly Dhoni is not in the frame at all, instead we see Robin Uthappa is holding the world cup high.