Dhoni Possesses A Rare Combination Of Intuition, Judgment And Xperienc

[Yuva Nataratna]

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[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]As the rain came down [/size][/font][/color][url="http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-champions-trophy-2013/engine/match/566948.html"]at Edgbaston[/url][color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3], many blurry TV hours were filled with punditry, most of it lost on the airwaves to heaven. Somewhere along the way though, someone, and I don't recall who, said something like this: "At heart, MS Dhoni is a gambler… "[/size][/font][/color]

[color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]What Dhoni did in offering Ishant Sharma the 18th over of England's innings with Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara at the crease and 28 runs required from 18 deliveries, was something altogether more instinctive, a rare and charming combination of intuition, judgement and experience that carried with it inherent risk. Here was the match, in the hands of the team's most profligate bowler.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]
Ishant, still coltish at 24 and with a career that often seems to be gripped by slow but inevitable entropy, was nervous - which he had the grace to admit afterwards. Morgan and Bopara had timed their charge, and both had begun to clear the boundary.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Tahoma][size=3]
There was an element of Napoleon's dictum on luck about Dhoni's decision, and there is no doubt that had things gone the other way, he would have come under heavy fire. But one of his great qualities is a calm fearlessness that he has shown so often. The underlying logic behind using Ishant was sound; Dhoni knew that England would take the batting Powerplay in the last two overs, and he wanted his spinners for them. But his decision was proactively to bowl Ishant rather than Umesh Yadav or Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and that was at the heart of India's win.[/size][/font][/color]

[Yuva Nataratna]

[aragorn]

I miss his hard hitting batting though he sacrificed his batting slot for the team. he shld bat at 3

[pinky123]

[Yuva Nataratna]

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I miss his hard hitting batting though he sacrificed his batting slot for the team. he shld bat at 3
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Agreed.... miss his hard hitting a lot....

[kiladi bullodu]

dhoni anna rocks\\

dhawan anna kuda manchi records cheyali

[dhonifan]

dhoni rocks

[chandrabhai7]

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[Maximus]

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[littlestar]

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[Yuva Nataratna]

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[Yuva Nataratna]

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