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Test Debutant
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MI has always been our nemesis.
Some ordinary captaincy by Dhoni today. His bowling changes were off I felt.
Even ordinary bowling and fielding by some.
How could you lose a match from that position.
Shocking.
Dhoni did it perfectly till picking Negi to bowl the last.
That was a truly facepalm decision. A young inexperienced spinner at that stage was daft. If it was Hogg, Ashwin or Tahir you could see it, but even not trusting Nehra, he could have bowled Mohit who is a death expert. What is he even doing in the team if you trust Negi more with the 19th?
1. He kept bowling pacers in the first powerplay when they were getting whacked. First over by Ashwin proved that spin was good. If dhoni wanted to save Ashwin, he could have given it some other spinner to bowl 1-2 overs in powerplay. But no...he waited for 4 overs of pacers getting whacked giving the over to Ashwin who then got whacked too (I suspected that after the change of momentum). I would have gone with left armer cos Lendon Simmons was more dangerous and then given Ashwin the bal after powerplay.
2. Yeah..his planning of bowlers was weird. Hard to blame Negi. Even Ashwin would have struggled in that over but some of the blame has to go to negi too. You can't give away 25 runs at any point.
3. Nehra was tried too late and was gone for a lot of runs. He should have gone with Mohit Sharma.
All in all....his bowling changes were weird today and I was surprised right from the powerplay overs. A rare bad day in captaincy for him. Even that needed some incredibly poor performances to lose the game.
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