Sachin and captaincy doesn’t seem to go together, does it? It didn’t work in the 90s and it isn’t working now. The move to drop himself to number four to prop up the middle order and the move to send the in-form Duminy to open the innings both failed. He correctly identified the problem – openers were not providing consistent starts and that in turn was putting pressure on the young middle order who haven’t been able to cope. I am not willing to believe that he made the decision to ring in the changes to the batting order to solve the problem, especially after I read this. As the Mumbai Indians are getting ready to face off Bangalore in a must win match for the franchise, the problems with batting still exist and the right way to solve it is for Sachin to do what he does best – score runs, lots of them, at the top of the order.
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