Saturday, June 13, 2009

Dhoni vs Sehwag

A lot has been said particularly in the TV Media castigating Dhoni for messing up the team spirit and even leaking Sehwag's injury to the media.That self proclaimed oracle on Indian Cricket,B.S.Bedi has accused Dhoni as being too big for his boots.Yet for the two days that all this drama was being played out on the TV screens Sehwag's questionable role in it all was buried.Everyone saw Sehwag missing a few matches in the IPL owing to injury and this assumes considerable significance given that the IPL is the creme de  la creme of the indian cricketers' moolah.After this,if the selectors went ahead and included Sehwag they should have known something which the vast public did not{perhaps not even Dhoni}.If ,after reaching England Sehwag had only one hour of nets and withdrew from all cricketing activity thereafter the blame can hardly be laid at Dhoni's door.One can safely assume that he would have been subjected to a gag order on the issue.If the media hounds him to speak out when he cannot his frustration is understandable.The media should have concentrated on Sehwag and demanded why he did not voluntarily withdraw himself for selection when he alone knew the real extent of the injury.This has happened before and will happen again.Players will deliberately hide their injuries before a series and hope all will be sorted out as they play on.Sadly it fails most of the time.Even Sehwag's betters are guilty of this.I feel the media is guilty of blowing up an issue and worse,persecuting the wrong man.