Melbourne : Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni today made light of the criticism he is facing in the wake of continuing poor results by saying that a review of his leadership can be done only through a PIL. India today suffered a third successive series defeat under Dhoni when the side conceded an unassailable 0-3 lead to Australia following a three-wicket loss in the third ODI here.
“There will be a conflict of interest if I start reviewing my performance. We would have to put a PIL to judge my performance as the skipper,” Dhoni said jokingly at the post match press conference.
On a serious note, he argued that the teams faltering bowling unit is just not experienced enough. “It is not about the leader. I am captain at the moment and somebody else will come later. It is more important to see the areas we are lacking, the departments which have to improve when it comes to shorter formats. “We dont have a seaming all rounder so lets not even go to that topic. If you see this series it is a relatively inexperienced bowling lineup. Ishant Sharma has played a lot of international cricket but he is not someone who has been consistently part of the format. “Umesh Yadav has been on and off and there are others who have made their debuts here. So we have to assess right now is how good the individuals are and what are they doing and whats their rate of development,” Dhoni said.
Once again though a top-order batsmans effort went in vain. After Rohit Sharmas two hundreds in the first two games, it was Virat Kohlis turn this time, as his 24th ODI century came in losing cause. Dhoni lauded the progress Kohli has made in his career, having seen him from a very young age. “He has consistently performed and improved his performance. He is the best amongst the Indian batsmen, along with Rohit in the shorter format. Today the way he paced his innings, it was slightly different to the first two games. But he reads the game really well, which I think, is very important in the middle overs. Virat is somebody that well have to look up to in the future, because hes somebody who will take the team forward for a long time,” Dhoni said.
Courtesy : PTI