Meh, I can understand the shuffling. He's accepted that he needs to adopt a strange batting strategy in Australia or he'll just get out precisely how he did today. The fact that he thinks he's more likely to get bat on ball all the way around his front pad when he's a foot outside off than he is to not snick off batting properly speaks volumes but it's probably true.
Worst of all some people think Binny is the answer. He'd struggle to find a spot in the West Indian team.
Tbf to Dhoni his walking across the off stump worked in England which was done to counter the swinging conditions, I can't understand why he's doing that in Australia though. It's not needed.
Now that they have picked him need to give him a good run. Not do a Mukund or Rahane on him given one or 2 slots are open anyway.
I'm not one of those people. As bad as Rohit was, he wouldn't play a shot that bad. Anyone advocating an all rounder at no. 6 with the tail we have and knowing how Dhoni is overseas needs to get a clue.
Yeah, him getting out with the shovel/bottom hand waft outside off is probably more frustrating tbh.
I agree. I don't see how a spinning all rounder would give you much more with the ball - finger spinners typically don't take wickets here - and pure sacrificing runs from a proper batsman at six (albeit there hasn't been much in the way of contribution at six in this series).
Yeah, he has no option but to do **** like this now, because he's been batting the same ****ing way for years and hasn't tried to improve.
Come on pews, you think Dhoni couldn't have done what Shami is doing right now? It was disgraceful.
Yeah that's pretty much my position. Shami genuinely has a better defensive setup for orthodox Test batting on Australian wickets than Dhoni. If Dhoni is to survive for any reasonable time here then he needs to put the bowlers off their lines, rotate the strike, counter-attack etc.
