Well; well; well; the mutual acrimony; rancour; bitterness and bad blood between the swashbuckling opening batsman Virender Sehwag and India's so called most successful captain Mahendar Singh Dhoni is out in the public domain for all to see.......
At the outset; let me make it clear that I am far from being either a Dhoni fan or acolyte and have always believed that Sourav "Dada" Ganguly was and will continue to the best skipper that I have seen during my lifetime as he set the foundation and built up the team that took Indian cricket to unprecedented and unimagined heights of cricketing glory and stardom........
What made this fact crystal clear was Sehwag's noteworthy omission of Dhoni's name from the list of captains; coaches and administrators who allowed him to flourish and achieve the unique cricketing pedestal he occupies all by himself.........
During the course of his all to brief speech during the felicitation ceremony organised by the DDCA preceding the onset of the India-South Africa test match early this (December 3rd) morning Sehwag took the time out to express his gratitude and eternal thankfulness to his father for allowing him to play the game; make it his entire life and express himself in the manner that only he could.........
He also paid reverence to his first coach A.N. Sharma and other coaches whom he did not mention by name as well as his first captain Ajay Jadeja followed by Sourav Ganguly; Rahul Dravid; Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar strictly in that order........
Viru also mentioned the steadfast and fawning Indian cricket fan who stood like the "Rock of Gibraltar" by his side at every step of his illustrious cricketing career and thus played an instrumental role in making him strive that extra mile in order to achieve cricketing immortality.........
Was the omission of Dhoni's name from the list of captains to whom he owed everything and more a slip of the tongue; a momentary memory loss or then a deliberate slight to the captain that many believe truncated and short circuited Sehwag's career even though he had a good three to four years of cricket left in him at the point when the carpet was unceremoniously pulled out from under his feet by Dhoni and his burgeoning ranks of chamchas within the annals of the BCCI..........
Sehwag who is the only Indian to notch up the rare and emulatory honour of notching up two test triple centuries as well as a 293 was accompanied by his devoted wife and dapper sons during the course of the felicitation ceremony in which a silver salver was presented to him by Anurag Thakur the incumbent BCCI secretary as a mark of gratitude and appreciation for his stellar and Everestian cricketing exploits..........
Over to Dhoni and his sworn chamchas for their reaction at this supposed slight or downright insult.........
At the outset; let me make it clear that I am far from being either a Dhoni fan or acolyte and have always believed that Sourav "Dada" Ganguly was and will continue to the best skipper that I have seen during my lifetime as he set the foundation and built up the team that took Indian cricket to unprecedented and unimagined heights of cricketing glory and stardom........
What made this fact crystal clear was Sehwag's noteworthy omission of Dhoni's name from the list of captains; coaches and administrators who allowed him to flourish and achieve the unique cricketing pedestal he occupies all by himself.........
During the course of his all to brief speech during the felicitation ceremony organised by the DDCA preceding the onset of the India-South Africa test match early this (December 3rd) morning Sehwag took the time out to express his gratitude and eternal thankfulness to his father for allowing him to play the game; make it his entire life and express himself in the manner that only he could.........
He also paid reverence to his first coach A.N. Sharma and other coaches whom he did not mention by name as well as his first captain Ajay Jadeja followed by Sourav Ganguly; Rahul Dravid; Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar strictly in that order........
Viru also mentioned the steadfast and fawning Indian cricket fan who stood like the "Rock of Gibraltar" by his side at every step of his illustrious cricketing career and thus played an instrumental role in making him strive that extra mile in order to achieve cricketing immortality.........
Was the omission of Dhoni's name from the list of captains to whom he owed everything and more a slip of the tongue; a momentary memory loss or then a deliberate slight to the captain that many believe truncated and short circuited Sehwag's career even though he had a good three to four years of cricket left in him at the point when the carpet was unceremoniously pulled out from under his feet by Dhoni and his burgeoning ranks of chamchas within the annals of the BCCI..........
Sehwag who is the only Indian to notch up the rare and emulatory honour of notching up two test triple centuries as well as a 293 was accompanied by his devoted wife and dapper sons during the course of the felicitation ceremony in which a silver salver was presented to him by Anurag Thakur the incumbent BCCI secretary as a mark of gratitude and appreciation for his stellar and Everestian cricketing exploits..........
Over to Dhoni and his sworn chamchas for their reaction at this supposed slight or downright insult.........
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