lol I know.
Root probably motm for me. Willey up there too and all the bowlers (by wood) tbh. All round great effort by England
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Root probably motm for me. Willey up there too and all the bowlers (by wood) tbh. All round great effort by England
Dhoni always bats for his average. Just look at his stats. Horrendous strike rate and huge number of not outs. Pathetic really
marc71178
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The majority of the time his not out in the second innings is because he’s lead India to a win. Would have to be a very blinkered person to not recognise that. Anything he does now or in the future shouldn’t take it away from him being up there as the best keeper bat in ODI history (I accept others prefer Gilchrist but IMO they’re wrong to).
Black_Warrior
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What? How did this happen? This match was supposed to end in 43 overs with "Kohli finished it off in style with a six "
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Why was Moeen so economical I thought India were going to slaughter him?
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pitch dried out. Was actually turning off the straight.
+ Dhoni was animal porn levels of filth.
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For every match I've seen Dhoni help win in a chase I've seen 3 or 4 that he has almost single-handedly lost. I've never really got why anyone rates him tbh.
A big part of that probably because I've only really seen him outside Asia, and apparently he's very different when playing at home
A big part of that probably because I've only really seen him outside Asia, and apparently he's very different when playing at home
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Why can't they just say he had a bad day and will bounce back strong next game or something generic like that instead of this nonsense?
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Because it's going to keep happening so they need to make it seem planned, deliberate and part of their system
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There isn't anything wrong with trying to bat out 50 overs in a losing run chase in a situation where NRR matters, like the WC, it's just a bad excuse to use in this scenario because the game was not dead when Dhoni walked in. He killed it.
Borges
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They can't just say he had a bad day: a bad day is one where you try to keep up within sighting distance of the asking rate and get out cheaply.
Ok, they did not want to come out say that this guy is past it and ought to be put to pasture; they could have tried saying that he had an an extended 'brain fade',
After all, if the Australians fell for the brain-fade theory hook, line and sinker, it is a reasonable gamble to assume that the others would, too.
The majority of the times I've seen him at the end of a win is when Yuvraj, Raina or Kohli set the chase up. If you take the first 2 or 4 years of his career out, he's never been the finisher that people glorify him to be. Our best chases have been set up by SRT, Sehwag, Gambhir i.e. top order & he's been there at the end, barely! The chase against Aus in Aus 2012, when Gambhir criticized his approach, was classic Dhoni - playing defensively till the last over or two. He was lucky there was no Starc IIRC, otherwise an easy chase would've looked impossible at the end. Similar thing happened in 2016 run chase, 4th ODI against Aus. We were cruising along & he stuffed it up! The guy has no balls or shame, he should be relegated to his favorite IPL team period.
An ordinary slogger outside Asia is what I'd label him as.
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