Dhoni denies rift reports - Cricket News Update
Indian captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 has become the first Indian player to come out and deny speculations of any dissension in the Indian dressing room. Over the past one week, talk of disagreement within the Indian camp has been making the rounds in the
Indian and well as the international media.
Speaking to media reporters ahead of their crucial league match of the ongoing Commonwealth Bank series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739, insisting that the environment in the
dressing room has always been very good.
There were reports that the BCCI officials are likely to step in to resolve the issue, but Dhoni has strongly denied the reports, and said that there was nothing wrong between him and Sehwag that needed to be settled down.
"If there's nothing, why do we need to have a chat? When we don't have a problem, why do we need to solve it? There's nothing negative in it," said Dhoni when asked whether he will discuss the matter with his deputy, as reported by the media.
"He [Sehwag] is a senior player, you know, and we don't need to clarify because we all have belief in each other as to what was said and what happened,” he added further.
Dhoni-Sehwag confrontation started last Sunday after India’s 51-run defeat at the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 under stand-in captain Virender Sehwag. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, had missed the match due to a slow over-rate ban, in a press conference after the loss explained
the reason behind his contentious rotation policy saying that the slow fielding of the trio – http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607, Sehwag and Gambhir – had prompted him not to pick all of them in a match. Dhoni had further added that he feared playing them together might cost the team
some extra 20 runs in the field.
Sehwag promptly lashed back at Dhoni in a separate media conference saying they had never been communicated that fielding was a problem.
The war of words, that too publically, did not go unnoticed by BCCI’s top brass back at home as the president and vice president of the Indian cricket board dismissed the reports of a rift, claiming the players have been misquoted and their statements have
been exaggerated by the media.
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