Might as well call for at least one of the captains to be sacked.
His batsmen have crumbled against bowling they should be comfortable against, his senior players aren’t ‘standing up’, he’s insisting on fielding a part-time spinner instead of a specialist and he hasn’t made a hundred in his last 20 Test innings. He has to take responsibility for these things.
It’s the young, inexperienced players who are showing the way. It’s time to move on.
It’s not just us saying this. Someone who once played cricket internationally has also criticised Dhoni’s captaincy for some reason – possibly to do with tactics. They said they’d have done things differently and that what they’d have done would have worked, unlike what Dhoni did. It’s hard, if not impossible, to argue with that.
When will the BCCI finally accept that this team is at a low ebb and acknowledge that it is time for change?
July 31, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Nice to see a post with a picture. According to my calculations, you hadn’t posted a picture since July 12th. Bet you’re relieved to get that monkey off your back.
July 31, 2014 at 4:00 pm
It’s been a difficult time, but we had faith in our abilities. We’ve been using pictures well in drafts and and knew that the right image file was just around the corner.
July 31, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Did you also grow a beard to help with all this picture form?
July 31, 2014 at 4:09 pm
There are few things we won’t grow a beard for.
Then, a week later, we remember that having a lot of facial hair makes the skin around a particular part of our jaw go weird, so we have to shave.
July 31, 2014 at 4:10 pm
But wouldn’t you say that using a photo. he’s had since (at least) 2010 shows a certain conservatism? I’m sure that Jarrod Kimber is much more proactive with his pictures.
July 31, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Jarrod is one of the new generation of cricket writers who have grown up using moving pictures and are entirely comfortable with that. It’s the way the game’s going, but such things don’t come naturally to to those of us from an older, more orthodox school.
July 31, 2014 at 4:31 pm
There was a time when KC employed a wide range of pictures, drawing aahs and oohs from bloggers far and wide. “There is no man who could so skilfully insert that thing there, I didn’t feel a thing” exclaimed awestruck women. But a blog gets old, and things suddenly take more time to load. It simply cannot operate with youthful vigor anymore and has to be more judicious with picture selection.
July 31, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Jarrod Number is also comfortable wearing baseball caps. I’m not sure he’s a good role model.
July 31, 2014 at 7:34 pm
The heart of the matter is that they failed to get into a modern university for art due to a distaste for watercolours, hence leading them to focusing on the blogging side of the vocation instead.
July 31, 2014 at 9:10 pm
You’ve also got to remember that his family is the right sort, so ability and form are irrelevant.
July 31, 2014 at 11:10 pm
A blanced blogging order needs a mixture of reactive proactive authors. The former will use images in response to the situation before them, tending to fall back on defensive text as comments dictate. The latter will find opportunities to insert images irrespective of the comments and so try to influence the blog into a more image favourable situation. This latter role is often misunderstood, it does not entail wildly inserting gifs and video files in every paragraph – rather they create opportunities to insert images – even if only one per post – in to influence the situation. This in turn will create a situation the reactive blogger at the other url can create image rich post of hi (or her) own.
July 31, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Ps Worst headline of the day. Possibly of all time.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/jul/31/moeen-ali-england-india-third-test-swann
July 31, 2014 at 7:35 pm
Best headline ever. And flexible too – it makes no difference how many wickets he takes, the headline can still be used. And if our Alex was running the Graun, you can be sure it would be used every day of every match. What happy days they would be.
July 31, 2014 at 7:41 pm
I’ve just realised how much I judge things entirely on URLs
August 1, 2014 at 9:47 am
It’s like what would happen if they let Boycott off the leash.
“Give him out, Erasmus! You dickhead! You bottle-less get! If you’ve got any bottle he’s got to go! He’s given him not out. I can’t spake.”
July 31, 2014 at 6:43 pm
The last time a selector suggested that Gambhir replace Dhoni as captain, the selector was sacked. That hasn’t stopped Indian fans clamouring for a change. Naman Ojha’s selection only increases the speculation. Hope the Indian selectors don’t copy the 90s English selectors and make Rohit Sharma as captain.
July 31, 2014 at 7:49 pm
Rohit was England captain in the Nineties? Actually, that makes sense. Everyone else was.
July 31, 2014 at 9:58 pm
Which Public School did he go to?
July 31, 2014 at 8:13 pm
But KC, the hover captions! You used to be magnificent
July 31, 2014 at 9:32 pm
Off topic, indeed not our sport, but I think my reasons for posting this link will become obvious.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby-league/355444/VIDEO-Is-this-the-most-biased-sports-commentator-EVER
August 1, 2014 at 8:48 am
Bert, that’s magnificent. “I can’t spake! I can’t spake!”
August 1, 2014 at 9:04 am
A lesson for Test Match Special I think.
August 1, 2014 at 9:48 am
It’s like what would happen if they let Boycott off the leash.
“Give him out, Erasmus! You dickhead! You bottle-less get! If you’ve got any bottle he’s got to go! He’s given him not out. I can’t spake.”
August 1, 2014 at 10:00 am
“But he’s got him this time, clean bowled. Shove it up your arse.”
August 1, 2014 at 1:48 pm
“‘E’s the best bowler in the worrrrrld!”
August 1, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Also worth saying that this is textbook use of the word “get”, per the hover caption and discussion on this link.
http://www.kingcricket.co.uk/michael-clarke-and-the-line/2014/04/30/
August 1, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Absolutely. And worth noting that gets are often dirty.
August 1, 2014 at 11:41 pm
But very rarely bottleless, in my experience. I would go so far as saying that might be a unique combination.
August 2, 2014 at 9:58 am
Also quite unusual to hear ‘Campbell’ pronounced as if it’s two words.
We must have watched this video nine times now. It doesn’t get old.
August 2, 2014 at 10:42 am
Wonderful – I hadn’t seen that vid before and it literally made me LOL.
“I can’t spake” reminds me of KP’s gibbering interviews, usually after one of his better performances, smattered with the occasional “I’m literally speechless”.
But you can speak, my good man, you are speaking ceaselessly. You are not speechless, KP, you are in full flow making a speech.
Thank you, Bert.
August 2, 2014 at 5:38 pm
I see Seattle now has a semi-serious rugby side.
Sadly, it’s bloody Sarries. I hate Sarries.
http://www.saracens.com/seattle-saracens-join-global-network/
Apparently the ‘Football’ players are learning how to tackle without using their heads. Revolutionary.
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/aug/02/seattle-seahawks-coach-pete-carroll-tackles-safety-rugby
August 4, 2014 at 10:00 am
Just watched the video again. It peaks on ‘You dickhead’, and then again on the final ‘We all can’t spake’.
August 4, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Sounds like the 12th Man
August 1, 2014 at 8:36 am
You youngsters don’t know you were born.
In my day we had to play with uncoloured pictures. And don’t even talk about the poor equipment we had to use compared with high-tech things they snap with today. Even me mom could snap 100 with one of them things.
Uncoloured pictures – that’d sort out thems who can snap and thems who can’t:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianlharris/8527836294/in/set-72157638632001045