UNIQUE&theBEST of FIRSTS-M.S.DHONI,theSKIPPER of INDIAN CRICKET

The Just one record Sachin the greatest cricketer of India could not make&is not likely to make ,the Best&the super first recors among Indian Cricketers has been made by M.S.Dhoni,the Indian Skipper today at Phiros shah Kotla Stadium,Deli. Yes! I am referring to the first ever Whitewash in a Test series belongs to Mahendra Singh Dhoni when the event staged at the Stadium today. No other Indian Captain could claim this Unique crown until today in the History of Indian Cricket. He is also the winning Captain of One day Cricket World Cup&the T-20Cricket World Cup. M.S.Dhoni has many outstanding features to his credit.He is the most successful Captain of India. In the history of overseas victories Dhoni stands first.As a Keeper with Gloves behingd the wickets his records are exemplary. He is a dominating Batsman&a dominating Captain. Indian Team in the Last World cup shown the dominating captaincy of Dhoni. Indian Team has never before dominated as much as it did under the captaincy of Dhoni He has opted to play from number 3 batting position to number 7 position dominating every position equally. His national Spirit while playing for India has no comparison. Players like Sachin &yuvraaj Singh had praised his ability to take decisions which have in most of the occasions found winning ways for India The Best quality of Dhoni as a Batsman&a captain is his frame of mind to overcome the resistance caused by the opposition.When his team is in a bad situation, he plays with better enthusiasm to take the Team to success. In a matter of 7 years of play in Test cricket he had played 73 Tests scoring over 4100 runs at an average of 40&an amazing strike rate of 60, He had ,however ,won Player of the match award only twice both occasions against the Australians. He has scored 8 centuries&28 half centuriesapart from a double century. If one starts narrating the qualities of Dhoni,he would need at least 25 fullscape sheets of paper&enormous amount of time. So let me not go very deep into those aspects. Let us come back to the present Test match at Kotla on the third day. I have not enjoyed a better dominating Test match than this one today. Australians crumbled like cookies in all the departments of the game except bowling by Nathan Lyon&batting by Peter siddle. They were continuously on the backfoot even producing the impression that some other team other than the once upon a time dominating team of Australia under Border,Tailor,Steve Waugh or Ricky Ponting. The match winners WATSON&WARNER flopped in both the innings cutting most pitiable sorry figure of themselves. Johnson never appeared to be the same Mitchel Johnson who used to strike frequently with broad smiles on his face. In this Test it appears that the defeat of Australians are likely in a matter of under just18 hours of Play. The Indians Dominated particularly Jadeja,Aswin&Sharma. With end of this Test today on the third day Sachin Tendulkar has played 198 Test matches.2 more required to create a world record of 200 Tests by any cricketer of the World. As the next Test series is likely after almost 6 months gap,Whether Sachin would continue to play until then is a matter Sachin Tendulkat&time alone could tell. Jadea claimed 5 wickets in the second Innings,Nathan Lyon 7 wicketrs&Peter Siddle 2 half centuries This is, perhaps,the fist Test match in which a CENTURY was never born. In view of this Peter Siddle with 2 half centuries should be awarded the Player of the match which is most unlikely because the selectors of the Award would never think on these lines.The usual tradition is to bestow the award on someone from the Winning Team.Especally when Cheteswar Pujara had overtaken him not merely today but in thr series as well. So finally India has won the Border&Gavaskar Trophy in suchy a way that never before Australia or India won in the manner it happened today. Most strikingly the winning shot came from the Blades of the great Skipper with a 4.Or was it Pujara purposely avoided taking a run from the last ball of the previous over to give the Glorious honour to the most honourable Skipper of India? The man of the match is likely to be Ravindra Jadeja &the series could belomng to none other than the Skipper himself. Murali Vijay had most of the runs a in aggregate.And Aswin most of the Wickets.But the way Murali Vijay got out today ,perhaps,confusing a Test match to be a IPL match with most unwanted reverse sweep had reminded me of Mike Gatting the then Captain who lost an opportunity for England to win a world cup against Australia towards the fag end of the Final. So Hip Hip Hurray to India &her greatest Captain who is celebrating the First ever whitewash of the series with any Country. Today's win for M.S.Dhoni is as good as winning yet another WORLD CUP in imagination. By SreedharanMundanat 24th March,Sunday 16-16Hrs(IST)