Dhoni Burns out!

may have a long term impact on him!

Good. Means someone like Karthick or Parthiv can get an opportunity to show if they have really improved and can give selectors more options. I always felt Karthick is more better keeper/bat for tests than Dhoni. Parthiv is the best among all 3 where batting in tests is concerned but his keeping was such a damp squib at the time when he was dropped. If he has shaped up since then, than nothing like it.

Soft.

JGK wrote:Soft.

Yep, he has done a Tait.

dhoni might be the first of a whole new wave. players choosing ipl/odis over tests. understandable in some ways

Fark 'em all. Let's see how famous they will be if they don't play tests.

Dhoni's the ODI captain. So, don't think he wants to miss ODIs.

Though the worrying thing is the previous player to choose ODIs over tests was Afridi. Not nice.

JGK wrote:Let's see how famous they will be if they don't play tests.

there are dozens of very famous players who are not famous because of test matches

bevan, klusener, dhoni, afridi, symonds, etc etc

Well you got to 5 anyway...

Each of whom played a number of tests.

and would have been popular even if they never played a test

JGK wrote:Fark 'em all. Let's see how famous they will be if they don't play tests.

Hmm, methink swimming in bucketloads of rupees (by the crore-dad load) probably sh!ts all over fame.

As they say in the Burbs, KFC (Ker-Farkin-Ching).

Dhoni Burns is a Scottish cricketer?

What a complete wimp. Lost all respect for him.

skully wrote:

JGK wrote:Fark 'em all. Let's see how famous they will be if they don't play tests.

Hmm, methink swimming in bucketloads of rupees (by the crore-dad load) probably sh!ts all over fame.

As they say in the Burbs, KFC (Ker-Farkin-Ching).

That's fine. Take the money but don't ever expect to have earned respect. Dhoni has in fact lost a great deal of it.