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Lalit Burma · Master Blaster Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 294 2467 Runs

South African's batsman they were dominating this series with their bats and Indian bowlers were starving for the wickets but as soon as captaincy change we saw the difference ... we saw how Dhoni uses his bowlers in critical situations ...

So tell me guys ... was this the magic of Dhoni Captaincy or the effect of addition of Ishant, Chawla and Yuvraj ...

What do you think ?

varungupta · Top Scorer Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 335 2013 Runs

well surely not!!!!
Dhoni is getting too much of appreciation for this game!!!
We all know it was primarily due to the turning track that SA players felt wanting!
& 2nd factor is some quality bowling from Ishant & spinners !
& dont forget the effort of Sourav Ganguly !!!!!!!!
i dont feel Dhoni had to do much in this game

Lokesh Aggarwal · Master Blaster Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 111 1096 Runs

and where was dhoni's magic during the 2nd test match when we lost in 3 days?

descorpio · Top Scorer Joined: 04 Apr 2008 Posts: 165 756 Runs

i could purely say that, this is the magic of the pitch. Smith had given a disappointing note about the pitch. Even ICC had summoned BCCI for the pitch. Now the convener had been made the scapegoat. That was a must win situation for indians and i suppose thats why the pitch was made like that. The south African journalist Thorpe in an interview said that, he had not seen such a worst pitch in his lifetime.