Dhoni feels Chawla needed this game more than Ashwin as he is not as mentally strong. It will provide him an opportunity to rebuild his confidence. Now let's see how many things are wrong with this line of thinking.
Firstly the match is being played vs Netherlands, hardly a champion team vs spin, so even if Chawla had a half decent game, it wouldn't really mean much and how would he feel about bashing a minnow side?
Chawla has been playing cricket for many years now, he has also played for India many years back. If a player with this much experience is still mentally weak, he isn't cut out for international cricket. And since when do teams use world cup games allbeit against a minnow side as a confidence-gaining exercise.
Now Ashwin, who is the other spinner in the squad and the one most likely to take Chawla's spot, how is this fair on him, he's not being provided with a chance to get some match practice, so when he'll be quite under-prepared when he does play. Chances are he'll play against West Indies at his home ground in Chennai, but I feel he also needs to play against South Africa too. One game in his home conditions won't do him much good.
Another concern is our supposed wicket-taking, strike bowler Harbhajan Singh. It seems he can't buy a wicket these days and we're having to rely on part timers to take wickets for us. Dhoni believes its because teams look to play him out which makes it difficult to get wickets, which you would've thought if you hadn't watched him bowl, where we see how defensive he has become as a bowler. For me he's in the team to take wickets, not contain the batsmen and then hope he can build enough pressure for others to take wickets.
Someone needs to inform him taking wickets will automatically control the scoring rate.
Team India needs to re-assess their strategies because a decent side could play Bhaji out and smash the part timers instead of getting out to them
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