Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been enfolded by altercation these days. He, along with the other players has been strangled by the Board of Control for Cricket in India officials, hence avoiding the media conference in Delhi before leaving for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament last week. They have kept sidestepping media persons, even after the five-run defeat against Sri Lanka in the first warm-up match. Now, Dhoni’s fitness has enclosed a new worry. He did not bat in the warm-up match against Sri Lanka in Mirpur. When his squad needed him on crease he did not appear and that has made the fans angry. Fans of Pakistan are even started taunting Dhoni’s ‘disappearance’.
Dhoni has passed over the Asia Cup tournament in February-March due to his side strain and he required taking rest to find recovered. Today he is the cardinal role of his team and his any injury will prove fatal to the squad. Dhoni kept playing the character of the wicket-keeper throughout the match, but there was no sign of pain in his facial expression. But Dhoni did not get to bat when his team got shambled off chasing the target. “I got a small fret in my right hand two days back. So we had the luxury of giving it a rest for a few more days. We nevertheless give birth one more practice game before the proper match’s start, hence there’s no point risking it. Besides, it gave me an chance to give other batsmen a fair chance.” He stated in a post-match TV chat.
He has avoided the media once again in Bangladesh so any further queries regarding his niggle has not been entertained by him and this disallowance make the travelling journalists as well as the fans unpleased.
“Avoiding the crease like he avoided the media, are warm-ups not for heroes?” An Indian fan posted on Twitter.
One side can include only 11 batsmen and any of the 15 players in practice matches. However, India sneaked in eight batsmen and Dhoni was not being involved in the team.
India could not make any single victory from December last year. Indian fan has become very disappointed with the successive defeats of the team against South Africa, New Zealand and in the Asia Cup and another defeat in a warm-up match would not realize any divergence.
At the same time Pakistani fans are riding his ‘absence’. One of the fans has stated on a famous cricket website there, “Captain leads from behind, what a legend.” Another fan posted, . “Dhoni did not bat since he demanded an oath never to see SL players face again because he was tired of seeing them over and over for last few years.”
Although, Dhoni is not being found fault with his apparent ‘excusatory approach’, some fans believe that if he is really hurt he should get a respite. . “If there’s an injury, just he didn’t bat. Could have aggravated it. Better set aside his power for bigger matches,” wrote another fan.
India is getting to pop out to paint their canvass with a high-profile mouth watering match against the all-time arch rival Pakistan and it is getting to be one of the best opportunities for Dhoni to shut all the critic’s mouth and lay fire on the fold.
