Finally  

Posted by Ram in ,

 It has happened. A long long wait has ended, more than a decade and a half has Indian Cricket waited for a good captain and it seems like the prayer of the fans have been answered.


Indian Cricket has always had great Individual talents but unfortunately has never had had a good captain, a captain who is both tactically astute as well as a natural leader of Men at the helm. 

Things finally seems to have fallen in place. Dhoni an unassuming, No Nonsense speaking, Calm, composed and sensible person with a wonderful sense of humor and loads of audacity

Motivating other seems to come so naturally to him. Tactically too he seems to be very shrewd and above all his out of the box thinking really impresses me.

No captain would have had the guts to call off a team meeting before a match and even if anyone might have, i bet no one would have the guts to speak about it in a post match conference, for Team meetings are rituals which is to be followed strictly no matter what.

The leader in him shone brightly when he said after losing the IPL finals "I am not going to blame anyone,we played our best and we are happy with this result". Wow, that's a true leader speaking for you. How often have we heard " The boys did not bowl well, bat well, field well, we were 20 runs short and all such nonsense", Not to say that Dhoni is not issuing such statements but he chooses the right occasions to say that. 

More recently when he so boldly came up with the 8-1 field set up, providing us a glimpses of his out of box thinking. A captain who is "truly" aggressive,a captain who lets his actions speak louder than his words unlike some of his predecessors. 

Of course these are early days and I am sure that he will go through rough patches and testing times as does any sportsman or for that matter any human. As they say "Greatness is not about avoiding failures, for failure is inevitable. It is making sure that the frequency of failure is long" and I am confident that Dhoni's greatness as a captain, I am willing to put my head on the line and  predict that here is one captain who will go down in the annals of Cricketing History as one of the Finest Captains of all time.

P.S: Just one advice for U, Do not get occupied with personal prejudices and involve yourself in divisive methods like some of your predecessors did. That will do.

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2 comments

Anonymous  

waiting for ur new post

November 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM

Yes he shudnt involve himself in any cheap politics like previous Indian captains and also he shudnt stick with a bunch of players alone for all the matches.

November 16, 2008 at 4:46 PM

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