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Ustad:

followed by 2 - 1 loss to Eng at home




Idi still naaku shock ey. Jadeja ee series lo undi unte manam Mumbai test geliche vaallam ani naa strong feeling
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Onlytruth:

where are we at ODI and Test rankings ?



We are doing good in ODIs and poor in Tests. We are whitewashed by Eng & NZ followed by 2 - 1 loss to Eng at home. Only consolidation is 4 - 0 at home against a very weak Aussie side.
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Onlytruth:

bottomline : Are we winning or not ? where are we at ODI and Test rankings ? matters




ejjactly
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2010 lo baaga perform chesaru ga.



Aa performance ki main reason sachin, dravid, lax & Zak...who are mocked as dead weight now.
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bottomline : Are we winning or not ? where are we at ODI and Test rankings ? matters
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// ee team la short bowling face cheae candidates yevary?

Short bowling vese vallu tappa vere bowlers undara SA lo. Entha short bowling vesina 86/8 range choking capability undi SA ki. Dhoni team will capitalize on that.

Teams are having very few death bowlers and who can pitch short balls. There are good bowlers in teams like Eng, SA but not to the extent of how we used to have in the past(Mcgrath,Donald, Waqar, Vaas,Pollock etc). Unna Steyn like bowlers ki, there is no one to complement him either from the bowling side or the batting side.
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Ringo_rangaswamy:




Fyi.
Dhoni captaincy lo we are test number spot lo chala months unnam.
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One day number one. T20, test lo top three.
Oka one day world cup, inkoti t20 world cup
Inkemi kavali Dhoni ninchi
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Ringo_rangaswamy:

ee team la short bowling face cheae candidates yevary?



kohli, pujara, rohit, dhoni
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Dhonifan:


ee team la short bowling face cheae candidates yevary?
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Ringo_rangaswamy:

Tests lo ni.1 position poyindi. Overseas short balls face cheyyaleka white washes ayyinayi. Yeppudu world cup ki team ani gola tappithe tests lo yetlamallee no.1 kavali ani ledu




adhi undhi kabatey, laxman lanti players ki badhakaliginchina good bye ani hint ichinaru. inka varusa vyphalyalatho sathamathamavutunna openers ki kavalsinanni chances ichi inka kotthallaki avakasam ichinaru.

SA series definitely maro Eng, Aus tours laga white wash avadhu thats for sure.
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Ringo_rangaswamy:

Ganguly became slow only as he started reaching retirement




ever seen his running b/w the wkts when he was captain...best example take 2002 wc :D

many occasions where sachin was frustrated with his running, and still remember turning down many singles to yuvi in semis vs kenya
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Tests lo ni.1 position poyindi. Overseas short balls face cheyyaleka white washes ayyinayi. Yeppudu world cup ki team ani gola tappithe tests lo yetlamallee no.1 kavali ani ledu
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Vjawarrior:

oh yeah....dhoni will come 8th down after ashwin...scores 33 not out....average more than 800....
lol




hehe..top5 fastest to reach 7000runs in odis..which means less number of innings. that cant be acheived with mere avges...lol

now do not come with overseas dlm pls...he is is the highest avged indian cricketer overseas in odis lol
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Laxman always slow but Ganguly became slow only as he started reaching retirement
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Ustad:

Next SA series undi...ela perform settaro soddam



oh yeah....dhoni will come 8th down after ashwin...scores 33 not out....average more than 800....
lol
Naakonchem tikkundi...kaani daanikoka lekkundi...
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Jai_tdp:

2010 lo baaga perform chesaru ga.




ye sari SA bowlingg inka tough, plus mana bowling inkaa weak
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Ustad:

Next SA series undi...ela perform settaro soddam




2010 lo baaga perform chesaru ga.
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Next SA series undi...ela perform settaro soddam
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baba nenu gangu ni lacchulu ni annanu......
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
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Film_fan:

Dhoni under lo super upgrade ayyindhi....running between wickets and fielding from younger lot.....

for decades our stalwarts were gifted enough not to run but score in us boundaries.....that lethargy hurt us later when other teams compensated with quicker runs....

ippudu one of the best runners between wickets...look at the number of two's and three they try to run......approach loney difference undi.....

go dhoni go.....



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yes. Tendulkar already retired, lol
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Dhoni under lo super upgrade ayyindhi....running between wickets and fielding from younger lot.....

for decades our stalwarts were gifted enough not to run but score in us boundaries.....that lethargy hurt us later when other teams compensated with quicker runs....

ippudu one of the best runners between wickets...look at the number of two's and three they try to run......approach loney difference undi.....

go dhoni go.....
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Jai_tdp:

Dhoni super amma. Best Indian captain after i started watching Cricket(1994)




yes :-)
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Whyme:

we want dhoni icon



Helicopter shot icon kavali.
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Dhoni super amma. Best Indian captain after i started watching Cricket(1994)
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Whyme:

we want dhoni icon.. tokkalo noota nalafai deshala kapal icon pettar indian team captain icon pettaraa?

khandisthunnam




icon eti?
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we want dhoni icon.. tokkalo noota nalafai deshala kapal icon pettar indian team captain icon pettaraa?

khandisthunnam
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Dhonifan:

Dhoni doesn�t kill their individuality. In fact, with every move, he seems to say that �This is not MY team, it is OUR team,� and that�s making the big difference.




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Dhoni has often publicly backed Rohit Sharma�s talent � he is clearly a believer. Despite his inconsistency, the Indian skipper believes that the Mumbai batsman can make a mark in international cricket and continues to push him into the squad whenever he can.




malla experts Nohit sharma ki sances rakunda sesthunnadu antar dhoni....kikiki
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i dont think he wanted vijay to go.. but given that if vijay is not there selectors will push gothi down his throat
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Dhoni basically is targetting negast warald cup.. he aath cares peoples sentiments.. he wants to take talented players (ishant sharma excepted) who listen to him and whose strengths and eeknesses he understands well (example: SirJaddu, Raina)
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2008 australia tri series saurav, rahul ni pakkanetti gambhir lanti batch ni tesukunnappudu kuda janalu gola gola chesaru

taken for granted attitude ni taggistunnadu ilanti selections tho
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nest waraldcup kooda manade antava..between..imran khan ki okkate ga//

naaghty ba...pransa lone javaabu vundhi
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this era imran khan with two odi warald cups



nest waraldcup kooda manade antava..between..imran khan ki okkate ga
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this era imran khan with two odi warald cups
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yep, after tendu's retirement he might even come out and support DRS
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This almost doesn’t feel like the Indian team. There has been no talk of politics – in fact the talk has been nothing but positive. The average age of the team is comfortably less than thirty (in the last game it was 25.81 and Dhoni is the only above-30 player in the team) – a sharp drop from the 2011 World Cup. They can field like the best in the world – they need to only ‘hide’ Ashwin in the field.

But even if it doesn’t feel like an Indian team, it does feel like Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team. Some might argue that it is never an individual’s team, they might say that it’s all about working together and making things click as a unit but look at the contribution of the Indian skipper and you can’t help but feel that if there is an owner of this house, it’s him.

Dhoni has often publicly backed Rohit Sharma’s talent – he is clearly a believer. Despite his inconsistency, the Indian skipper believes that the Mumbai batsman can make a mark in international cricket and continues to push him into the squad whenever he can.

Virat Kohli is another player who was given support when everyone thought he was down and out – remember the Perth Test in Australia. Before the third Test of the series, Kohli had scores of 11, 0, 23 and 9 in the first two Tests, almost everyone felt he needed to make way for Rohit. But Dhoni backed him and now he is getting his reward.

Dhoni, like Ganguly, is building his own Team India. AP

Suresh Raina has blossomed as a T20 and ODI cricketer under Dhoni. He has a role to play in the shorter formats – a very specific role – and he does that well. His fielding has been superb and even though both of them came into the team around the same time, Dhoni’s maturity has led to becoming not just a friend, but mentor to Raina.

Ravindra Jadeja is someone whose bond with Dhoni has only grown stronger over the last couple of years. He was always a cricketer with talent but that alone never clinches things at the top level. Dhoni has worked on Jadeja’s approach to the game during their time at the Chennai Super Kings and the results of that are now showing.

R Ashwin made his way into the team through his performances for the Chennai Super Kings, where his captain is once again Dhoni. There are few things about Ashwin’s bowling that are a mystery to the skipper and that is why he gets his backing even when he is in a trough.

Ishant Sharma, despite his lack of wickets, has ability that Dhoni recognises just as he continues to hold Irfan Pathan in low esteem. And that recognition can make a big difference to the selectors. You’d rather give the captain a bowler he believes in than one who the captain believes is incapable of doing the job.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is new to the team but Dhoni has shown enough confidence in his brand of swing bowling to give him the new ball ahead of more experienced bowlers. He doesn’t try too many things and mostly that’s the kind of bowler that Dhoni seems to like.

Umesh Yadav has also only played under Dhoni in international cricket. He is quick and is often used by Dhoni in short bursts. He can be wayward but once again Dhoni realises that he has that little extra something to make the difference.

Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys. Sourav Ganguly had a happy knack of backing the right players (Harbhajan Singh, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and more) to come good. Now, Dhoni seems to be developing a similar knack.

A captain’s belief – no matter how noble it is — matters little if he cannot get the rest of the team onto the same page – he’ll spend too much time pulling dead weight… time that could have been utilised planning an opponent’s downfall.

However, Dhoni’s greatest asset has been his ability to make each team member feel as if the team belongs not to Dhoni but to them. They all take ownership of it and that’s something. The team isn’t being pulled in different directions – they pull together, towards victory; towards a greater cause.

Dhoni doesn’t kill their individuality. In fact, with every move, he seems to say that ‘This is not MY team, it is OUR team,’ and that’s making the big difference.

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