Dhoni, it's time to give up captaincy

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The bigger the 星／主役にする, the faster he 落ちるs. Take Mahendra Singh Dhoni as an example and you will know what I am talking about.?

Not so long ago, the Indian ODI captain was at the Sydney Cricket Ground, egged on by a wave of blue, and just a game away from making it to the World Cup 2015 決勝戦. But with just a couple of lost games in Bangladesh, the most powerful man in Indian cricket ? the only captain to have won all the three ICC Tournaments ? seems to have run out of friends and confidantes within the dressing room.?

Innuendo?

I am going to invoke one of Newton’s most famous 法律s of 動議 ? every 活動／戦闘 has an equal and opposite reaction.?The 活動／戦闘: One day Dhoni （機の）カム out, mocked the マスコミ and played the emotional card. If I am 責任がある the 敗北・負かすs, he said, take away the captaincy from me.?

Dhoni has had a 広大な／多数の／重要な career as an ODI player and captain, but the time is 権利 to?let Kohli develop his 見通し and his team for the 未来

The reaction: Soon, Ravichandran Ashwin, India’s most potent bowler in sub-大陸の 条件s, and Dhoni’s チーム仲間 at the Chennai 最高の Kings 需要・要求するd that we all have 尊敬（する）・点 for his 船長／主将 and said that he could “die for him.”?

Then, having won the Man of the Match award in the last game, Suresh Raina, another of Dhoni’s CSK friends, said Dhoni had done so much for the country, one bad series could never be a mirror by which to 裁判官 him.?

But the biggest and most 予期しない reaction （機の）カム from India’s 実験（する） captain Virat Kohli. 査定する／（税金などを）課すing India’s shoddy play in the 最近の ODIs Kohli 明言する／公表するd 率直に: “Our 決定／判定勝ち（する） making has been doubtful...Our players 港／避難所’t been able to 表明する themselves.”?

It has been more than 36 hours at the time of going to print since Kohli’s 素晴らしい comments, and with all the innuendo and 共謀 theories 飛行機で行くing around, he still hasn’t （疑いを）晴らすd the 空気／公表する as to whose “doubtful 決定／判定勝ち（する）-making” didn’t let the players 表明する themselves.?

Unlike others, I 辞退する to believe it is a 一斉射撃 at Dhoni. Why? Because Kohli himself was India’s biggest let-負かす／撃墜する in the series, 得点する／非難する／２０ing a mere 49 in the three ODI innings he played.?

But if Dhoni and Kohli aren’t sitting in the same corner of the dressing room any more, there cannot be any 勝利者s. The BCCI has to 捜し出す the 経営者／支配人’s 報告（する）／憶測 and based on that decide on the way 今後.?

It is 批判的な to know what 誘発するd all these reactions of the week gone by: Is it indeed Dhoni-versus-Kohli? Why is Dhoni feeling the heat on his ODI 王位? Have things been said or made 明らかな to him by a few in the dressing room? And, has the wheel come 十分な circle for Dhoni??

重荷（を負わせる）?

At the 危険 of annoying most of the country’s cricket fans, I feel it is time for Dhoni to give up the ODI captaincy. He has had a 広大な／多数の／重要な career, both as an ODI Captain and player, but if he wants to play for a couple of years or more, he should 緩和する his 重荷（を負わせる）, concentrate on his own game and let Kohli develop his 見通し and his team for the 未来.?

In a nation obsessed by World Cups, that would mean 許すing Kohli to have a 十分な four years to get 始める，決める to 勝利，勝つ World Cup 2019. Also, by continuing as another year or two as ODI captain, is Dhoni now going to 達成する anything? No.?

The 現在の 状況／情勢 in the Indian team, where a 26-year-old youngster leads in 実験（する）s but plays under a much older captain in the ODIs, will 自然に divide the team.?While one will keep waiting for the 王位 to be 手渡すd to him, the other will be just like a golden leaf in autumn, 粘着するing on and hoping to 生き残る another day.?

India can’t afford to 単に 生き残る. They have to move on.?

軽く押す／注意を引くing?

Leadership has a shelf life, and Steve Waugh ? one of the world’s most successful captains ? once famously said it took five-six years before the stagnation 始める，決める in.?

Dhoni was lucky to have captained India in 実験（する）s and ODIs in an 時代 when the legends were still around, and the Sehwags, the Yuvrajs, the Zaheers and the Harbhaj ans were match 勝利者s in their own 権利.?

He rebuilt a young team a couple of years 支援する and tasted success, but in this very period Dhoni’s detractors （人命などを）奪う，主張する that he had strong personal likes and dislikes. Some, like Ravindra Jadeja were favoured, while Dhoni’s dropping of Ajinkya Rahane was believed to have peeved Kohli because Rahane has been a prolific run-getter for India in 実験（する）s.?Kohli 明確に believed he could do the same in the ODIs.?

No Indian captain ever wants to leave the 職業, because of the fame, attention - and most importantly 商業の 裏書，是認s.?However, if Dhoni does not stand 負かす／撃墜する soon, he runs the 危険 of 存在 軽く押す／注意を引くd.?

Now that Kohli has shown the requisite talent and temperament for the 最高の，を越す 職業, he has to be 信用d, both by selectors 同様に as Dhoni. What the Tendulkars or Dravids were to Dhoni, MSD must now be for Kohli.?

Dhoni still has a lot to 申し込む／申し出 in ODIs as the move to bat at No. 4 in Bangladesh showed, and his presence as a 上級の player may 貯蔵所d the team together and will help both Kohli and India.?

The writer is Editor (Sports) Aaj Tak

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