Harsha bhogle on ms dhoni biography
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Since my article in the Times of India got chopped in some centres and mutilated in others, here is the entire article so it can be fully understood. Sorry for the longish post:
MS Dhoni is learning, like all champion performers do, that if you set very high standards, you are condemned to be judged by those for the rest of your life. Champions need to be scrutinised, as everyone else is, but sometimes we set the bar too high. With time, even Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar struggled to hit the notes they were capable of and Dhoni is just part of a process in life that discriminates against no one.
And so, scrutiny of Dhoni must begin and end with three questions: Is he as good as he was? Is he worth his place in the side? Is he better than the next available person?
Clearly he isn’t as good as he was and it is something he is aware of. In his prime there were few finishers in his league. He was doing a very difficult job and it isn’t unreasonable to expect someone e
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An article inom wrote when Dhoni retired from test cricket. betydelsefull still!
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I don’t think anyone knew Mahendra Singh Dhoni. I don’t think anyone was meant to.
I certainly didn’t know him very well. inom had dinner with him once and it was revealing. He had komma over to the apartment we were at in Adelaide. My colleague had cooked, inom was warming the pre-cooked chapattis and he came over and said he would do it han själv . He talked freely. When he had finished dinner, he picked up his plate, walked across to the basin, washed it and placed it upside down on the platform next to it. He volunteered to wash the other plates.
I tried telling him that he must speak to India’s cricket lovers more often. He nodded and smiled. Of course, he didn’t. But I got the feeling that evening that inom was talking to someone who was not trapped by the game. We all are, in some ways, because cricket offers us so much. It fills our lives, but t
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The tasks of Clarke and Dhoni
The Australia and India captains are living two different stages of a team's life cycle. Their contest in the upcoming series will be intriguing
Michael Clarke: only the sixth Australian Test captain in 25 years • Getty Images
Over 25 years Australia have only had six Test captains. It is a staggering number, one routinely buried amid the rather more mundane records that pop up every half hour. In comparison, India have had 11 in the same period, though there has been far greater stability in the second half of that interval. What this tells you is that Australia have not only picked captains with care but have also chosen the right moment.
From Allan Border to Michael Clarke is quite a story, but it is not one of regular linear progression; no, life doesn't move in simple, straight lines. Instead, it is one of astonishing leaps forward - every captain stamped his personality on the job - and, a