Saturday, April 18, 2009

It is not really "Chennai" Super Kings playing out there

I have half a mind to stop watching CSK games after today's CSK match. Dhoni is 100% responsible for it. He picks Parthiv Patel ahead of Chennai's Vijay. I think Vijay is better in these conditions being a test class opener. But that's still acceptable. He drops Balaji for a different combination of bowlers. Not fair on someone picked to play test cricket for India not too long ago.
He then picks R Ashwin and does NOT give him a bowl. Why? Why? Why? Even after Flintoff gets tonked for 3 sixes in the 18th over. It is irking me even more as the spinners won it for MI in the end. Dhoni also got CSK's batting order horribly wrong. Patel is no opener in SA conditions in my book. Flintoff at 4 when 2 early wickets fell is again a slap on Badri's face. He then picks himself and Oram ahead of poor Badri who was forced to come in at 7 when they needed 60 off 30 or the like. Not too surprising given similar shoddy treatment in last season's IPL. I remember hapless Kapugedara coming ahead of Badri in last yr's final. Badri needs to shift to Royals in order to get more opportunities. Dhoni is getting too involved with his foreign cricketers and going too much on face value. He needs to back performers like Badri, Ashwin, even Vidyut and Vijay. Even if we lose, we lose with our Tamil boys screwing it up... Atleast give our boys the chance Dhoni. Don't be this autocrat. If you continue in this vein, you might lose your biggest supporters...
Dhoni seems hell bent on losing the respect of Chennai fans like me.
(The following is my reaction to Monkee's comment that informed me of 5 TN cricketers being sent back to India)
Who is Viraj Vilas Kadbe? He averages 26 in 6 matches with the bat and has taken 7 wickets for Vidharba in Domestic ODIs. He is yet to play T20. What has someone like Vidyut or Suresh Kumar done to miss out on selection ahead of this Kadbe? Suresh Kumar is a useful all rounder who averages 51 in 10 list A games for TN batting at 6 or 7.
Vidyut was more than useful last year. I am not citing Abhinav/ Anirudh's case yet cus the mandate seems to have been to retain the bowlers/ bowling all rounders. Vidyut and Suresh can both bowl ok. They have done enough to retain their spots. What has Kadbe done to stay in the CSK? He is 19. Even if some unbiased sport was to argue saying that his age was on his favor - Napoleon Einstein my friend. He is an allrounder as far as I know, and has been in India's Under 19 squad. What has Kadbe done?
And in any case I find Jakati staying on inexplicable. He is NOT getting a game in any case. Murali, Ashwin are the top 2 spinners. Even Indian teams dont take 3 spinners for tours abroad, and you are looking at players with Murali Kartik/ Amit Mishra's class missing out. Surely Jakati is not their class in left arm spin (He has 103 wickets in 41 first class matches!!!!). The guy has never played even Zonal cricket if I were to believe cricinfo. Face it Dhoni - HE IS NOT GONNA TURN OUT IN CSK's XI ever!!!! There will never be injuries to BOTH Ashwin and Murali. Even if such a situation were to arise, we could have managed with Vidyut/ Einstein if only you had retained them.
Dhoni seems to be in a rampage to send back TN cricketers and eventually lose supporters from Chennai. God save him. Finally "Idhu Chennai Chennai Superkings!!!!!"

11 comments:

Atulya said...

FYI: http://content.cricinfo.com/ipl2009/content/story/400362.html

Jay said...

This is so depressing. IPL is not serving its point of promoting local talent. Rajasthan has 0 players from Rajasthan, CSK will soon follow suit.

Girish said...

Surely you must know that its no more "idhu" chennai super kings right?
That song has been in Hindi for more than a month on TV now, aint it?

Ennavo. Worst news, this sending back TN players crap.

Basthardo MSD!

Anonymous said...

Yawn. It is better you don't blog than type such boring posts.

maheshbalaji said...

i dont think this trend will continue. when IPL is back in India i hope more Chennai players will be in the team. And mostly ICC will soon free up Aprils for IPL and more foriegn signings are in the offing.

but whats happened this time is bad logic and ridiculous to call it Chennai SUper Kings, Rajastan Royals or for that matter even Indian Premier league is wrong. so being in theme,CSK team composition for this time is fine...

Anonymous said...

completely agree J. K 2 MSD.
Chennai super kings will loose big time if MSD continues this way !
God save CSK

Girish said...

dei..
just scrolling down, there is no humor till the end of the page!
Bring back the nakkal and the laughs i say!

Me gonna start writing like the good ol' times.
You start with Airtel Super singer i say.

Atulya said...

Surely Jakati is not their class in left arm spin. The guy has never played even Zonal cricket if I were to believe cricinfo. Face it Dhoni - HE IS NOT GONNA TURN OUT IN CSK's XI ever Famous last words.

Jay said...

Atulya, That one comment of mine has given me a lot of flak :)
Girish, Enna da humor, therla paa. Anyway I have a new post today. Check it out.

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