Internet Desk: Rarely did anyone noticed the Indian captain losing his cool. He did lost his cool soon after leading India to a thrilling 1 run victory over Bangladesh at Chinnaswamy stadium. A visibly annoyed Indian captain lashed out a scribe after being asked if he was contend with the one-run win over Bangladesh in the ICC World Twenty group match here.
Dhoni walked into the post match press conference smiling, but soon the smile turned into an anger at the very first question, which not only took the India skipper by surprise but also left him furious.
Dhoni was asked how satisfied was he with the result, keeping in mind that India needed to win it big to improve their net run rate for brightening the semifinal prospects.
Rubbed the wrong way, Dhoni said, “I know you aren’t happy that India won today.”
As the reporter tried to clarify, Dhoni cut him short and added firmly, “Listen to me. Hearing you, your tone and your question, it’s clear that you aren’t happy that India has won.And when talking about a cricket match, there’s no script.It’s not about the script.”
The Indian captain went on saying, “You have to analyse that after losing the toss, what was the reason that we couldn’t make many runs on that wicket. If you aren’t analysing these things sitting outside, then you shouldn’t ask this question.”
A long pause followed at the press conference hall, before the mike was passed on for the next question.
Indian captain said the team’s ability to stay calm under intense pressure and manage the “chaotic situation” with a cool head paved the way for their nerve-wracking win.
“In a situation like this, it’s literally chaos. What you are trying to do is you’re trying to manage chaos,” Dhoni said after the match.
“But at the end of the day you push the bowler to bowl what you feel is good at that point of time. If I am convinced that this is something I want to do, I will go ahead with it but definitely having an open mind at that point of time really helps because at times in situations like these under pressure, that’s where the input of others comes in. But you have to assess everything and it has to happen in a very short span of time.””Everybody will come and he’ll have his own opinion. Often the opinion of a batsman is very different to the opinion of a bowler. But what you have to do is you have to see what the strength of the batsman is who is batting at that point of time, how the wicket is behaving, whether there is some kind of reverse swing or no reverse swing on offer. All these things you need to calculate and I feel what really helps is you listen to all of them.
The win in Chinnaswamy will definitely erase the painful memories of 2007 when India were knocked out after losing to the same opponent. But it is not the same for Dhoni as he said the victory will not erase the pain of the 2007 loss.
“We still remember 2007 loss. The reason being we were not able to qualify for the next stage in spite of playing good cricket. We are also human beings – we also feel hurt if we have not done well. I think it is an emotional connect to the game and I think this victory does not ease 2007 loss,” he said.
Dhoni hailed the younger players in the side for stepping up and performing in key roles. He specifically gave credit to Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah, who looked nervous at the start after a misfield that led to a boundary and a dropped catch.
“As far as Hardik is concerned, there is a phase where there would be ups and downs. Once you are through these phases or chapters, you become an accomplished player as a bowler and as a batsman,” he told reporters at the post-match press conference.
Defending a modest 146, India looked down and out till the last three balls were bowled by Hardik Pandya, as he picked Musfiqur and Mahmudullah off consecutive balls before Dhoni ran out Shuvagata Hom to clinch a thrilling win in the last ball.