Cricket - The Gentleman’s Game

Disgusted Mahendra Singh Dhoni has yesterday threatened to resign from his duties as the Indian captain. In the last selectors meeting Dhoni wanted to have RP Singh in the team inspite of RP Singh’s failure in the second one-dayer. However the selection committee thought otherwise and preferred Irfan Pathan.

Not selecting RP Singh is not the reason for Dhoni’s disgust. All of this which happened in a closed was leaked to the media and this is what frustrated Dhoni. He said “something or the other leaks out”. He was quite disappointed that everything that happened in the selection committee is getting public and this hinders him from speaking his mind in the meetings.

He then threatened that he would resign to his post if this continues. The BCCI top officials had to immediately intervene and warned all the selection committee members not to talk anything about the their meeting proceedings to the media. They said that they are very serious about this ‘leak’ and do not want this to happen again in the future.

Dhoni has taken back his decision to resign. He sincerely urged the members not to talk about the meetings which were supposed to be private. “If everything goes out to the media, we could instead invite the media and discuss in their front, was what he had to say.

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