Dhoni blames IPL parties for T20 debacle

Last Updated: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 09:08

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Dhoni blames IPL parties for T20 debacle

Zeecric Bureau

St Lucia: After being eliminated from the third edition of T20 World Cup, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed post-match IPL parties for the debacle.

“The IPL parties after the every match took a toll on the Indian players,” said a visibly upset MS Dhoni while addressing the post match press conference here on Tuesday.

He also said that it’s up to the players how they respect their bodies during the hectic IPL schedule.

“It’s up to the individual player how they respect their bodies and balance the parties with their performance,” said the India skipper.

He also said his side failed to play to its potential.

India needed to win by at least 20 runs against Sri Lanka but lost the Super Eights match by five wickets to crash out of the elite ICC event.

India looked set for big score as they were 90 for one in 10 overs after electing to bat and could score just 163 for five and ended up losing all second round matches.

"I think execution of plans from their bowlers was very good, even with set batsmen we couldn't score freely. Overall, batting is our strength and we should have done better.”

"We didn't perform to our potential. The last 4-5 overs that they bowled really restricted us. We need to improve in quite a few areas," Dhoni said after the match.

Sri Lanka enhanced their chances of making the semifinals with this win and captain Kumar Sangakkara had nothing but praise for his bowlers.

"At the end, we were chasing at least 144. Even I thought India would make a very big score, but the guys came back really well at the back end to cut off the runs and to pick up wickets as well," he said.

"Dilshan really got the momentum back after the early wickets, and we have always talked about how good our young players are, and they showed that today. Whatever happens after this, we can rest assured we have done the best we can."

Angelo Mathews, adjudged Man-of-the-Match for his crucial 46-run knock said, "I had to give a good performance with the bat, I'm glad I did it at the right time."

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First Published: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 09:08

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Mukesh Kumar - Bangalore
mr dhoni you have no right to blame ipl.you are responsible for poor show in world cup

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haha... - delhi
mr dhoni u have 2 clear ur thought processes :-
1)apart from winning the 1st edition ur show in 20-20 is dismal to say the least, u won it becoz ghambhir/yuvi where in great nick..u havenot won any major odi/ not even represented in the semis. winning the test no 1 was not becoz of u it was a process started by ganguly/dravid u were the lucky one to get the end result.
reason,
1)ur cricketing accume needs upgradation, u should realize players like u ,yusuf,raina cannot heat quality fast or medium pace bowlers out of the park they cannot score at the rate of even 8 per over against them.though raina has got some runs his technique is wanted for he cannot perform against aus/pak/sa(that day was a fluke, he was out on no ball also)there r only 4 players in your team who can hit any bowler anytime sehwag,sachin,yuvi,rohit make them play max over.
2)get back irfan pathan he is a better allrounder than his bro infact a better batsman also.
3)rohit should be in the playing 11 till the 50-50 wc if required at the cost of gambhir also he is a better bat in odi than gambhir.

wc 14 (1st eleven are written in oder
1 sehwag 2 sachin. 3. rohit 4 yuvi 5 msd 6 yusuf pathan 7 irfan pathan 8 bhaji 9 praveen kumar 10. zak 11 umesh yadav 12 raina 13.ghambhir 14 piyush chawla

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RAJENDRA GULATI - new delhi
after 10 overs 95/1 and last 10 overs we made only almost 70 runs , its too slow in 20 overs format i think despite we have lots of wickets in hand , we played too slow and mr. dhon should take the responsibility and should resign from captaincy. in india like politicians , cricketers also dont take responsibility for their flop show. we crores of people are being cheated by these cricketers. actually now their main motto is to earn money , not to play for the country. tournament like ipl should be banned or else only new talented cricketers/retired cricketers who is not part of team should play ipl matches. ipl shud be a platform to search new talents instead of money making.