{"id":12301,"date":"2012-12-13T09:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12301"},"modified":"2012-12-13T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:37:17","slug":"selectors-wanted-to-remove-dhoni-from-captaincy-amarnath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=12301","title":{"rendered":"Selectors wanted to remove Dhoni: Amarnath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-10351\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100.jpg\" alt=\"Selectors wanted to remove Dhoni from captaincy: Amarnath\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100.jpg 161w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian selector Mohinder Amarnath said that the selectors were&nbsp; thinking of sacking Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Indian team\u2019s poor performance in Australia. India lost all the four Test matches in Australia following their 4-0 whitewash in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, there were discussions to replace Dhoni and people had even agreed to do so, but for some internal reason it didn\u2019t happen. I would not like to divulge what the reasons were,\u201d Amarnath said in an interview to <strong>Times Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a report in <strong>The Indian Express<\/strong> says that Mohinder Amarnath, the North Zone selector, Central Zone\u2019s Narendra Hirwani and East Zone\u2019s Raja Venkat wanted to remove Dhoni from captaincy. But they did not had the support of chairman Srikkanth and West Zone selector Surendra Bhave said Raja Venkat to <strong>The Indian Express.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSanjay Jagdale, the BCCI secretary and convener of the national selection committee, consulted BCCI president N Srinivasan who shot down the proposal. Srinivasan made it clear that though the majority of selectors felt that Dhoni didn\u2019t inspire confidence as Test skipper, the time was not right to remove him,\u201d Venkat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-10351\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100.jpg\" alt=\"Selectors wanted to remove Dhoni from captaincy: Amarnath\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100.jpg 161w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/dhoni-captain_161_100-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/>New Delhi:<\/strong> Former Indian selector Mohinder Amarnath said that the selectors were&nbsp; thinking of sacking Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Indian team\u2019s poor performance in Australia. India lost all the four Test matches in Australia following their 4-0 whitewash in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, there were discussions to replace Dhoni and people had even agreed to do so, but for some internal reason it didn\u2019t happen. I would not like to divulge what the reasons were,\u201d Amarnath said in an interview to <strong>Times Now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[466,622,4578],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-mohinder-amarnath"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Selectors wanted to remove Dhoni: Amarnath - 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=12301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Selectors wanted to remove Dhoni: Amarnath - 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 selector Mohinder Amarnath said that the selectors were&nbsp; thinking of sacking Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Indian team\u2019s poor performance in Australia. 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