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Dhoni is under fire for his tactical blunders during the
World Cup and according to a source, the selectors want to
exert pressure on him by putting him on notice when they sit
down to select the Indian team for the Asia Cup next month.
The source said Dhoni would be given the captaincy on a
tournament-to-tournament basis.
Although he has led the team to the top of the ICC Test
rankings and to the number two spot in the ODI rankings,
Dhoni's captaincy has not been upto expectations in the
Twenty20 format.
Support for Dhoni came from former captain Sunil
Gavaskar, who felt that he is the best man to lead the side.
"I don't think anybody should be complacent enough to
think his place in the team is secure as a player or as a
skipper. But having said that, Dhoni has done the best he
could. I still think he is the best bet as far as captaining
the country is concerned. He has not quite had the luck he had
when he started with India's captaincy," Gavaskar said.
Gavaskar, however, dismissed as a "poor excuse" Dhoni's
comments that IPL's after-match parties and the hectic
travelling had taken a toll on the players.
"I don't think that is an excuse at all. I think that is
a very poor excuse used by people to say that IPL parties were
the reason for the team not performing. Tell me one thing,
there were no parties in the West Indies were they? So how can
you say that the team performed badly in the Caribbean because
of parties in India," said Gavaskar. PTI AY
RBT


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