Dhoni, who is generally considered as the coolest cricketer, shocked everyone, last night, by loosing his cool in front of the media.
This shocking incident took place in a press conference, held after India’s victory against Bangladesh in WT20.
One of the reporters yesterday, asked Dhoni, whether he was really satisfied with the victory, considering India needed to win with better run rate at least by 50 runs. The reporter commented that the team instead huffed and puffed its way to a one wicket win, making it a close game.
The irritated Dhoni, interrupting the reporter from completing his question, said, “One minute, I know you aren't happy that India won. Listen to me. Your tone and your question says that you aren't happy with this result, okay? As far as India winning this match is concerned, there is no script. Its about the script. You have to analyse how after losing the toss, on what wicket we batted, what the reasons were that we didn't make a lot of runs. If you don't analyse all these things off the field, then you shouldn't ask these questions.”
This reaction from the Indian skipper came as a surprise to many, as everyone knows Dhoni, before that, only smiling in any situation.
When Dhoni was asked how he manages to keep cool in tense situtions, he said, “I think what is important is to listen to everyone. In situations like this it's literally chaos. You're trying to manage chaos. Everyone will come, he will have his own opinion, often the opinion of a batsman is very different to that of a bowler, but what you have to do is see what the strength of a batsman is who is batting at that point of time. How the wicket is behaving. Whether there is reverse swing or not, all these things you need to calculate.”
The Indian skipper, further added, “I feel what really helps is listening to all of them, but at the end of the day you push the bowler to bowl what you feel is good at that point of time. If I am convinced that this is something that I want to do, then I go ahead and do it. But definitely having an open mind at that time really helps because in situations like these, under pressure, you may have a tunnel vision and that's where the point of views of others come in handy. You have to assess everything in a very short span of time.”
By Phani Ch
