Ajay Jadeja noted that Team India skipper Virat Kohli had already played a lot of matches under MS Dhoni's leadership.
Former India batsman Ajay Jadeja has slammed the BCCI for appointing ex-skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a mentor to Team India for upcoming T20 World Cup in UAE and said that he he has been left “surprised” by BCCI’s decision. Jadeja has been finding it “impossible to understand” this decision by BCCI.
Jadeja noted that Team India skipper Virat Kohli had already played a lot of matches under Dhoni's leadership and it was not necessary to appoint Dhoni as the mentor of T20 side.
“It is impossible for me to understand. I am thinking for two days about what could be the thinking. I am not talking of MS Dhoni, the understanding he has or how useful he can be, I am not going towards that. It was like you sent Ravindra ahead of Ajinkya, the person thinks why it has been done,” Ajay Jadeja said.
“I am surprised. There is no fan bigger than me of MS Dhoni. I believe MS Dhoni was the first captain who made the next captain before leaving or they used to always keep changing whenever they wanted,” he added.
Raising questions over BCCI's decision, Ajay Jadeja said that it seems that the selectors don’t have complete faith in leadership of Kohli and Ravi Shastri.
“When you made and left and that player has taken that team to a different level, there is a coach who has taken the team to World No.1, what happened overnight that a mentor was required? That thinking is surprising me a little. The Indian cricket I am seeing is working in a different way. Dhoni used to run it one way, he used to play the spinners, he never used to play four fast bowlers. What happened for Indian cricket in England was the doing of four pacers. One person thinks one way, the other thinks some other way, probably it is an attempt to merge the two,” the former batsman concluded.
India is set to clash with Pakistan for their opening encounter of T20 World Cup on October 24 in Dubai. The Men In Blue will then meet New Zealand, Afghanistan, and two other teams from the qualifiers in the Super 12 stage.
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