Angry cricket fans in Mahendra Singh Dhoni's home town of Ranchi burnt effigies of the India captain on Monday, one day after his team's defence of its Twenty20 World Cup title was ended before the semifinals.
India, the 2007 champion, lost to England by three runs Sunday to record consecutive losses in the Super 8 stage of the tournament in England after having already been beaten by West Indies. The Indians now cannot progress out of their group.
Dhoni was criticized by several former test players for perceived tactical lapses, being overly defensive, repeatedly shuffling the batting order and not making greater use of in-form batsman Yuvraj Singh.
"Failure to handle pressure led to our loss," former test spinner Erapalli Prasanna said. "In a crucial match, Dhoni should not have sent England in to bat first."
Madan Lal, a member of India's 1983 World Cup-winning squad in the 50-over format, said the team lacked "intensity."
India's aggressive top-order batsmen failed to fire against England and the run-rate shot up drastically at Lord's in a match watched on a live telecast by millions of cricket-obsessed fans in India through the early hours of Monday.
Dhoni later acknowledged that holding back Yuvraj for a late hitting assault was not a wise move. He instead promoted Ravinder Jadeja, who was playing his first game, up the order.
"Sending Jadeja up the order smacked of overconfidence and defensiveness," Press Trust of India quoted former selector V.B. Chandrasekhar as saying.
"We were also over dependent on Yuvraj. We would have been eliminated much earlier had he not performed," Chandrasekhar said. "The decision to send Jadeja up the order ahead of Yuvraj was baffling because he had not played in the tournament."
India, the 2007 champion, lost to England by three runs Sunday to record consecutive losses in the Super 8 stage of the tournament in England after having already been beaten by West Indies. The Indians now cannot progress out of their group.
Dhoni was criticized by several former test players for perceived tactical lapses, being overly defensive, repeatedly shuffling the batting order and not making greater use of in-form batsman Yuvraj Singh.
"Failure to handle pressure led to our loss," former test spinner Erapalli Prasanna said. "In a crucial match, Dhoni should not have sent England in to bat first."
Madan Lal, a member of India's 1983 World Cup-winning squad in the 50-over format, said the team lacked "intensity."
India's aggressive top-order batsmen failed to fire against England and the run-rate shot up drastically at Lord's in a match watched on a live telecast by millions of cricket-obsessed fans in India through the early hours of Monday.
Dhoni later acknowledged that holding back Yuvraj for a late hitting assault was not a wise move. He instead promoted Ravinder Jadeja, who was playing his first game, up the order.
"Sending Jadeja up the order smacked of overconfidence and defensiveness," Press Trust of India quoted former selector V.B. Chandrasekhar as saying.
"We were also over dependent on Yuvraj. We would have been eliminated much earlier had he not performed," Chandrasekhar said. "The decision to send Jadeja up the order ahead of Yuvraj was baffling because he had not played in the tournament."
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