{"id":10530,"date":"2012-10-03T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T10:12:27","slug":"dhoni-should-stop-making-excuses-and-take-responsibility-for-india-not-reaching-semis-chetan-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10530","title":{"rendered":"Dhoni should stop making excuses and take responsibility for India not reaching semis: Chetan Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian fast bowler Chetan Sharma slammed Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his captaincy in the ICC T20 World Cup and said that Dhoni stop making excuses for India not being able to make it to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is such a big tournament and it hurts to see the captain making excuses for India not being able to qualify for the semifinals for the third consecutive time. Dhoni should take the responsibility,\u201d Chetan told the reporters here during the announcement of dates for U-16 Coca Cricket Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>India despite winning the match against South Africa could not qualify for the semifinals because of poor net run-rate. India had to restrict South Africa within 121 or less but Dhoni\u2019s men failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoni in the post match presentation ceremony said that the match against Australia cost team the spot and blamed the rain for Indian bowlers\u2019 poor performance in the match. \u201cI don\u2019t know the reason why Dhoni made such comments, maybe he was trying to save his captaincy as the team has not done well in the past three T20 World Cups\u201d, said Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just can\u2019t understand why Dhoni played three fast bowlers. The Australia-Pakistan match showed that the pitch favored spinners and it was a big blunder not to play Harbhajan Singh in the match. His team selection was simply unbelievable,\u201d added Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma also criticized Dhoni for not picking Virender Sehwag for all the matches, \u201cSehwag is the most explosive batsmen in the Indian team and he should have played in all the matches. We needed him in the match against Australia. If Sehwag was dropped because of poor form than why wasn\u2019t Zaheer Khan dropped,\u201d Sharma asked.<\/p>\n<p>About the possible rift in the team, he said, \u201cIf there is any rift in the team than it should be stopped immediately, if for that we need to drop a few players than we should not hesitate in doing that. Team&nbsp;comes above everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur team made mistakes and that is why we are not in the semis, India won two matches in the Super Eights, but so did the other four teams that have qualified. So blaming this on bad luck is not done,\u201d Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>By Gaurav Jha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian fast bowler Chetan Sharma slammed Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his captaincy in the ICC T20 World Cup and said that Dhoni stop making excuses for India not being able to make it to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is such a big tournament and it hurts to see the captain making excuses for India not being able to qualify for the semifinals for the third consecutive time. Dhoni should take the responsibility,\u201d Chetan told the reporters here during the announcement of dates for U-16 Coca Cricket Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[6760,466,622,6761,557,694],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories","tag-icc-t20","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-u-16-coca-cricket-tournament","tag-virender-sehwag","tag-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dhoni should stop making excuses and take responsibility for India not reaching semis: Chetan Sharma - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10530\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dhoni should stop making excuses and take responsibility for India not reaching semis: Chetan Sharma - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Former Indian fast bowler Chetan Sharma slammed Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his captaincy in the ICC T20 World Cup and said that Dhoni stop making excuses for India not being able to make it to the semifinals. \u201cIt is such a big tournament and it hurts to see the captain making excuses for India not being able to qualify for the semifinals for the third consecutive time. 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