Australian former skipper Ian Chappell thinks that MS Dhoni should be discared as Indian Test Captain as his defensive captaincy brings two successive winless series in foreign soil. He thinks that aggressive Virat Kohli should be replaced DHoni immidietely.
“Dhoni is a brilliant captain in the shorter versions of the game, and a master at timing his run to the finishing line as a middle-order batsman. However, as a Test captain he’s too reactive and has a tendency to let the game meander along, like an absent-minded professor strolling in the park,” Chappell wrote in a column for ESPNcricinfo.
In January 2012 Dhoni had hinted that by the end of 2013 he might bring a stop to one of the formats. But its 2014 now, he is still playing all formats and has gifted us two winless series.
“His conservatism allows the better players among opposition batsmen too much freedom and too many easy runs. onsequently, big partnerships, like the match-saving one by Brendon McCullum and BJ Watling, build too often,” He wrote.
“Dhoni really should have been replaced as Test captain following India’s disastrous tours of England and Australia in 2011-12, when his teams displayed little fight in losing eight matches on the trot.”
Chappell thinks that whenever team is in pressure Dhoni lacks of idea. He is a master on ‘made to order’ turners at home where his strangle-the-opposition-by-drying-up-the-runs tactic has remained a conqueror. “When a captain starts to hinder his team, he needs to be replaced. During that horror patch, Dhoni was unable to inspire his team and looked like a skipper just going through the motions.There’s no doubt that a captain — even the best of them — can stay on too long, to the point where he loses his team,” he explained.
On the other hand Kohli has all the leadership quality as he had been the captain of young Indian team and he has got enough courage and spunk for the matches out of the subcontinent and he has at his right age, he is now matured enough.
“Dhoni’s latest injury may be fortuitous. It gives the selectors a chance to evaluate Kohli’s leadership credentials in the one-day arena, and if he’s successful, they should appoint him Test captain,” he added.
