Mahendra Singh Dhoni Premediates Questions for the Captain After Winning the World Cup

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Sreelata YellamrazuApr 2 2011

It did not take very long for the Indian captain to rub it into the media queries about his decisions as he decided to take it onto himself during the post match presentation at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni is now accustomed to the kind of questions being pitched during media and press conferences. And before the media had a chance to get to him, he decided that India winning the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 final against Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai would a good time to show just how prepared he was.

Check out his answers:

I took a quite few decisions tonight, if we hadn't won I would have been asked quite a few questions:
Why no Ashwin, Why Sreesanth.
Why no Yuvraj, Why did I bat ahead?!
That pushed me and motivated to do well.The pressure had got to me in the previous games. In this game, I wanted to bat up the order and Gary backed me and also the the senior players.
I had a point to prove more to myself. Virat and Gautam batted brillantly; lots of singles. Then with the help of bit of dew, we put pressure on the spinners.

Dhoni previously admitted to erring on the decision of going for three pacers instead of a spinner in Mohali in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 against Pakistan and he knew that with Sreesanth's performance wayward and Munaf Patel and Zaheer Khan leaking runs in the end, Dhoni could have been answering those very questions had India's batting, his included, did not respond so resplendently.

Dhoni's honesty in admitting his errors as well as backing his decisions and taking the onus on to himself in the final are bound to raise more of those captain courageous tags.

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