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     Ustad Megastar Username: Ustad Post Number: 22338 Registered: 07-2008 Posted From: 76.169.161.29 Rating: N/A |
Dhoni is a brilliant limited overs player...no doubt about it. Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't - Henry Rollins | ||
| Junior_no1 Comedian Username: Junior_no1 Post Number: 1979 Registered: 09-2014 Posted From: 101.63.239.14 Rating: N/A |
lucky 2ni NTR bomma pettakunda few months gadipi , dikku leka malli NTR bomma ke mokkadam modalettina kukka CBN fans ikkada...-animuthyam by OT | ||
| Hero Username: Reddit Post Number: 11280 Registered: 05-2013 Posted From: 122.175.23.141 Rating: N/A |
BY CHENNAI STANDARDS it was cool, and rain hung heavy in the air, on 1 December 2005. In a stand just behind the pickets at Chepauk stadium, a young man sat surrounded by a small posse of journalists. In less than twenty-four hours, he would make his Test debut against Sri Lanka. If he was nervous he didn’t show it. “That question bores me,” he said coolly, when asked how his early years as a football goalkeeper had shaped his game. “I’m not going to talk about that any more.” His preternatural confidence always marked Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a man apart. It was this quality that had caught the eye of the national selection committee when they went to watch the 2003–2004 Duleep Trophy final between North Zone and East Zone at Mohali, a year earlier. They were there primarily to check on the match fitness of Ashish Nehra, one of the country’s premier fast bowlers, just days before India embarked on a historic tour of Pakistan. Nehra, Aakash Chopra and Yuvraj Singh—all of whom would go on to be part of that successful trip—were playing for the North side. But the match’s main talking point occurred on the fourth day, when East began their pursuit of North’s score of 408. In the first sixteen overs, one of the opening batsmen, a relatively unknown wicketkeeper from the cricketing backwater of Jharkhand stole the limelight. East ended up losing by 59 runs, but Dhoni’s 47-ball 60, at a venue generally considered seamer-friendly, left everybody wondering how the match would have panned out had he batted a while longer. His assault on Nehra stunned Chopra, who was standing in the slips. “Dhoni took the aerial route and drove the first ball from Ashish for a one-bounce four,” he recalled. “I was slightly shocked to see someone bat like this in the first over in Mohali. The second ball was an expected bouncer. Dhoni hooked it for a six.” This year marks Dhoni’s decade in international cricket, which began with a one-day international appearance against Bangladesh in December 2004. He now stands at the centre of India’s cricketing universe, as statistically the country’s most successful captain, and as the key player in its most controversy-ridden domestic cricket franchise. Dhoni’s achievements as a cricketer and a leader have been crucial to the Indian national team’s successes over the past decade. But an ongoing Supreme Court-appointed probe into deep-rooted corruption in Indian cricket, for which he was questioned by the Justice Mudgal committee, has also made the public uncomfortably aware of his possible failures. In November 2014, when the Mudgal report on allegations of spot-fixing in Indian Premier League matches was submitted to the Supreme Court, it threatened to shatter the country’s cricketing edifice. For alleged incidents of betting, the report indicted Gurunath Meiyappan, a former team principal of the Chennai Super Kings, an enormously successful team captained by Dhoni. The Super Kings are effectively controlled by N Srinivasan, the suspended president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the chief of the International Cricket Council. Srinivasan is also Meiyappan’s father-in-law, and the managing director of India Cements, the conglomerate that owns the Super Kings. An initial version of the report, which came out in February, caused a stir about Dhoni’s role in the affair. Lawyers arguing against the BCCI in the Supreme Court alleged that Dhoni had lied to investigators by telling them that Meiyappan was merely a cricket enthusiast, not officially part of the franchise’s management. As the committee prepared a more detailed final report, Dhoni was called in for further questioning in October. That version was still sealed, exclusively for the eyes of the Supreme Court bench, at the time this story went to press, and the BCCI argued successfully for the names of some individuals mentioned in it to be protected. But Dhoni’s name has come up in the hearings anyway, and to grave effect. At a hearing in late November, a lawyer representing the BCCI’s opponents asked if she should assume that Dhoni was one of the key figures connected to Meiyappan in the report. To this a judge on the bench responded: “Assume and argue.” - See more at: http://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/sun-and-shadow#sthash.Pt Ck3RIW.dpuf} At some point you have to give up hope for a better past. |
