Luck labour and chance are the three things essential to become successful.Perhaps Dhoni is not as much lucky overseas for Indian cricket team.Now,Labour and chance are looking too far from the team at this moment.
They continue to struggle on a shambolic tour of Australia and fans back home lose patience with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men.MSD certainly have won the hearts of millions in the ODI formats and shorter version of the game but no luck is favoring MSD in Test cricket.The world No.1 team in the Test cricket is fighting to remain in the game.
'Faithful husbands' in Australia:
After a thumping defeat in the first test in Melbourne, India are staring at another humiliating loss in Sydney where the hosts racked up a mammoth 659-4 before declaring their first innings.India have never won a test series in Australia and a comprehensive defeat this time around is likely to bring fans onto the streets burning effigies and garlanding players' posters with slippers. A series whitewash would not go down well in a country of more than a billion cricket experts.
With India on the ropes in the second test, Dhoni and his team mates are coming in for stinging criticism back home.
"Indian batsmen are like faithful husbands, they perform only at home..." model Poonam Pandey quipped on her Twitter page (twitter.com/iPoonampandey).Her comment made it to the front page section of Times of India newspaper, which usually reserves its use of quotes to philosophers and thinkers such as Plato.
Her Twitter page is flooded with requests to do it this time around to help the Indians arrest their slide in Australia.
Criticism on the cards:
After the humiliating defeat in England by 0-4 the team lost the number one ranking.Dhoni is being crticized on being "too defensive".Mark Waugh the former Aussies cricketer quoted."Captain Cool (Dhoni's nickname) sounds okay when the team is doing well but if the team is doing badly, he needs to be a hard captain," Kapil Dev was quoted as saying in the Times of India newspaper.
Equally sarcastic was former captain Sunil Gavaskar, who reckoned not much had changed since his playing days when many cricketers revived moribund careers by playing against India.
"It has always been the case over the years and it's the same now," Gavaskar told NDTV channel."If you want a resurrection of your career, play against India. If you want your highest score, play against India. If you want your best bowling figures, play against India."
Australia captain Michael Clarke could vouch for that, having hit a career-best 329 not out before declaring the first innings in Sydney.A selfless captain got the praise in Australian media being selfless.The former skipper, who led India to 1983 World Cup victory, felt Dhoni alone could do little if his team mates let him down.
This is really a matter of concern that BCCI must take some stern decision for the sake of Indian Cricket.
