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***Official*** South Africa in India 2015

duffer

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Black_Warrior said:
About Dhoni, I know he got a lot of flak for the semi final innings, when once again it was Jono's boy who was a bigger culprit for getting distracted by Anushka, India was out of that game pretty early...and Dhoni just tried to take it till the end as much as he could. I thought the Dhoni hate was totally unfair.

But today, I felt Dhoni should have finished the game. Rahane and Sharma set up the game. So, is this failure part of a larger decline in Dhoni the player we know or is it just the injury which greatly hindered his shot making prowess?
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I heard they broke up?

edit: Or not.
 
cnerd123

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I mean somehow thinking 'fun' would be to log onto a forum and thread you have no involvement in and posting garbage, and yet thinking other people are losers...that's incredible lol
 
TheJediBrah

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I mean somehow thinking 'fun' would be to log onto a forum and thread you have no involvement in and posting garbage, and yet thinking other people are losers...that's incredible lol
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such as?

literally all I said was that Dhoni isn't the player he once was and that I've seen him lose games that India should have won

and where did "thinking other people are losers" come into it?

you're really stretching here
 
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TheJediBrah said:
such as?

literally all I said was that Dhoni isn't the player he once was and that I've seen him lose games that India should have won

and where did "thinking other people are losers" come into it?

you're really stretching here
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I'm not going to go ahead and spend my night going through archives

Do you really think I give two ****s whether you agree with me or not?
 
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***** said:
I'm not going to go ahead and spend my night going through archives

Do you really think I give two ****s whether you agree with me or not?
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didn't think so

If you're going to go ahead and talk ****, at least let it have some basis. Making completely arbitrary insults with no basis in history or fact tends not to get very far.
 
cnerd123

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TheJediBrah said:
didn't think so

If you're going to go ahead and talk ****, at least let it have some basis. Making completely arbitrary insults with no basis in history or fact tends not to get very far.
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Dude chillax. You're talking this forum wayyy too seriously.
 
weldone

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Black_Warrior said:
About Dhoni, I know he got a lot of flak for the semi final innings, when once again it was Jono's boy who was a bigger culprit for getting distracted by Anushka, India was out of that game pretty early...and Dhoni just tried to take it till the end as much as he could. I thought the Dhoni hate was totally unfair.

But today, I felt Dhoni should have finished the game. Rahane and Sharma set up the game. So, is this failure part of a larger decline in Dhoni the player we know or is it just the injury which greatly hindered his shot making prowess?
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9 per over in the last few might not be the toughest in cricket these days, but it is not a walk in the park. We often make the mistake of labelling something either too tough or too easy. When Kohli came in to the crease, India were in a strong position. He played a bad inning 11(18) and when he left India needed 90 off 10. Despite the sixes Rohit hit after that, the RRR was always hovering around that 8-10 mark. As I said, it is not the toughest job in the world, but it takes some seriously good batting. When Rohit got out, RRR was 9 then also. Raina hit a googly outside off against the spin. Yes Dhoni couldn't finish the job here, but I won't blame him. Even the best finisher can't score 9 per over in the last few everyday. There is a big difference between 7 per over with wickets in hand and 9 per over.
 
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weldone said:
9 per over in the last few might not be the toughest in cricket these days, but it is not a walk in the park. We often make the mistake of labelling something either too tough or too easy. When Kohli came in to the crease, India were in a strong position. He played a bad inning 11(18) and when he left India needed 90 off 10. Despite the sixes Rohit hit after that, the RRR was always hovering around that 8-10 mark. As I said, it is not the toughest job in the world, but it takes some seriously good batting. Yes Dhoni couldn't finish the job here, but I won't blame him. Even the best finisher can't score 9 per over in the last few everyday.
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yeah i agree with this
 
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weldone said:
9 per over in the last few might not be the toughest in cricket these days, but it is not a walk in the park. We often make the mistake of labelling something either too tough or too easy. When Kohli came in to the crease, India were in a strong position. He played a bad inning 11(18) and when he left India needed 90 off 10. Despite the sixes Rohit hit after that, the RRR was always hovering around that 8-10 mark. As I said, it is not the toughest job in the world, but it takes some seriously good batting. Yes Dhoni couldn't finish the job here, but I won't blame him. Even the best finisher can't score 9 per over in the last few everyday.
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can't agree with this either tbh

Unless you're Glenn Maxwell you generally wouldn't see a lot more than that. It looks bad because he got out obviously.

but yeah obviously not entirely Dhoni's fault
 
Black_Warrior

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weldone said:
9 per over in the last few might not be the toughest in cricket these days, but it is not a walk in the park. We often make the mistake of labelling something either too tough or too easy. When Kohli came in to the crease, India were in a strong position. He played a bad inning 11(18) and when he left India needed 90 off 10. Despite the sixes Rohit hit after that, the RRR was always hovering around that 8-10 mark. As I said, it is not the toughest job in the world, but it takes some seriously good batting. When Rohit got out, RRR was 9 then also. Raina hit a googly outside off against the spin. Yes Dhoni couldn't finish the job here, but I won't blame him. Even the best finisher can't score 9 per over in the last few everyday. There is a big difference between 7 per over with wickets in hand and 9 per over.
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Yeah I get that but here's the thing, if it's 9 per over with 6 wickets in hand, 90 to get, I would back Dhoni to win me that game 8 times out of 10. So is today's game one of those 2 times when doesn't because he's human, or because he was injured or because he is on a decline?
 
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