MS Dhoni is among the sharpest cricket minds I’ve encountered: Greg Chappell

Australian nice Greg Chappell has rated former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as “one of the sharpest cricket minds”, saying his decision-making abilities set him aside from his nice contemporaries.
Chappell, who had a tumultuous two-year tenure as India’s chief coach from 2005 to 2007, had typically spoken extremely of the two-time World Cup-winning captain who ended his superb profession as one of many nation’s best gamers.
The Australian cited the instance of Dhoni whereas lamenting the absence of pure environments that when performed an enormous half within the growth of gamers in sturdy cricket nations.
“The developed cricket countries have lost the natural environments that were a big part of their development structure in bygone eras. In those environments, young cricketers learned from watching good players and then emulating them in pick-up matches with family and friends,” Chappell wrote in ESPNcricinfo.

“The Indian subcontinent still has many towns where coaching facilities are rare and youngsters play in streets and on vacant land without the interference of formal coaching. This is where many of their current stars have learned the game.”
One of them is Dhoni, who got here from the city of Ranchi in Jharkhand.
“MS Dhoni, with whom I labored in India, is an effective instance of a batter who developed his expertise and discovered to play on this vogue.
“By competing against more experienced individuals on a variety of surfaces early in his development, Dhoni developed the decision-making and strategic skills that have set him apart from many of his peers. His is one of the sharpest cricket minds I have encountered,” Chappell stated.
Beginning his profession below Sourav Ganguly and John Wright, Dhoni started flourishing within the Rahul Dravid-Greg Chappell period, his explosive knock of 183 not out in an ODI towards Sri Lanka being of the highlights.
Former Australia batter Chappell is of the opinion that coaches have to create environments the place gamers can study problem-solving and decision-making on their very own.
Noting England’s struggles within the recently-concluded Ashes, Chappell stated the issue is with the absence of pure environments for the children to specific themselves.
“England, then again, have only a few of those pure environments and their gamers are produced in a slim band of public colleges, with an emphasis on the teaching guide. This is why their batting has misplaced a lot of its aptitude and resilience.
“The games that young people make up and play are dynamic and foster creativity, joy, flexibility in technical execution, tactical understanding and decision-making, which are often missing in batting at the highest levels.”
He added, “Invariably, when an grownup will get concerned with children taking part in cricket, they break up the sport and kill its vitality by emphasising appropriate approach.
“This reduces a dynamic, engaging environment that promotes learning to a flat and lifeless set of drills that do little to improve batting in games.”

Chappell stated having extremely structured settings will not be the fitting strategy to go.
“The growth in structured training in the preparation of batters has not only failed to take batting forward, it has actually resulted in a decline in batting. Highly structured environments, and an excessive focus on teaching players to perform “correct” approach, dehumanise cricket.”