Sehwag is the worst captain ever: Crowe
Posted on Mar 28, 2009 at 20:22 | Updated Mar 29, 2009 at 03:45
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Napier: Criticising stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag for his poor leadership, former New Zealand captain Martin Crowe said India's performance in the on-going second Test in Napier is a far cry from their attempt at becoming the world's number one team.
Crowe claimed regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni -- he is out with a back injury -- was being sorely missed and pin pointed Sehwag's leadership as one of the prime reasons for India's desperate situation against the Kiwis in the second Test, which the visitors are trailing by 267 runs after following on.
"The Indian team effort was pretty sloppy. There was a resigned feel about what the Indian side were obviously thinking in terms of looking to draw this match and to retain
that 1-0 advantage," said Crowe.
"But these are troubled signs for India. They have almost taken their eye off the ball. The Virender Sehwag shot was very irresponsible. Gautam Gambhir was lucky to survive a run-out, and the stroke that he played to get out. All this does not become of an experienced side that wants to be No. 1 in the world. Their fielding again was just slack. Nothing much changed and MS Dhoni was badly missed," Crowe wrote in his column for a cricket website.
He blasted Sehwag for his tactics and termed the Delhi dasher's decisions as "unfocused thinking".
"Sending out a nightwatchman was always unnecessary and shows further muddled and unfocused thinking," Crowe said.
"I have never seen captaincy so bad as I saw with Virender Sehwag," he added.
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Posted By dev0416
ofcourse, u are afterall-virufan!
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Posted By dev0416
You should be ashamed of viru\'s antics this series, u foolish virufan.
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Posted By greendreemz
I agree/disagree what Crow crows.
Agree: Team's transition during tour off/on field. Should work hard to clip
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Posted By virufan
I agree with Martin Crowe on one thing namely their late arrival at Napier which did not give them enough
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Posted By pratapchandran
I tend to agree with most of the things written by Crowe. Otherwise how could one explain such a steep
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