It is hard being the captain of a cricket team that represents a nation of 1 billion-plus people and Mahendra Singh Dhoni discovered it the hard way on Sunday when his team lost to England by 3 runs - a loss that proved costly as it booted them out of the Twenty20 World Cup tournament. This team has been fantastic in the last couple of years and they should have won this tournament. Was Dhoni boys were wholesomely tired coming from South Africa to India to England or cripplingly fatigued from the game itself, or was it a tactical Blunder on his part. If I were to be asked as a cricket loving fan I would say it was the later. Right from his decision to bowl first to sending Ravindra Jadeja up the order at number four ahead of Yuvraj Singh, "gambles" taken by Dhoni in what was a do-or-die match all was a recipe for disaster. "Perhaps the team got it all wrong with the batting strategy and the way they played the short ball. I don't think they were prepared for [the short-pitched bowling] at all and it caught them cold. As“Dhoni asserted that it’s “not the end of the road”. Of course, it isn’t, but Team India could well end up on the same path if the many lessons aren’t learnt quickly.
"Cricket never tests your character when you are doing really well. It tests you when you are not doing well.
