Watta Fall!

I had planned to write an article bashing Dhoni after the T20bacle(My eyes turned into Vijayakanth's seeing Ravindra Jadeja playing in the second Super Eight match after all the thrashing he got against Australia.)But thought otherwise seeing the upheaval against him as if he had lost us the nation.
So,I prefer to post what Vinod Mehta wrote way back in 2007 after the Carribean WC disaster(Sounds similar?!):
I told-you-so journalism can be both exasperating and juvenile. Thus, I get no pleasure in reminding you that four weeks before our determined fifteen left for the Caribbean, I had lamented: "Am I the only one turned off by Indian cricket? I'd much rather relax watching an old film than see our boys wield the willow. The occasional fluke victory is all we can hope for.
Our two disgraceful performances in the World Cup prove once again that the Indian fan's love affair with his team is a one-sided, indeed fatal attraction. We were comprehensively beaten by rookie Bangladesh and against Sri Lanka we were never in the match. Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are estranged SAARC countries and I suspect there must be huge satisfaction in Colombo and Dhaka that Big Brother has been taught a lesson on the playing field at least. One positive fallout of our ignominious exit could be a strengthening of SAARC . That is the only silver lining I see in a very dark cloud.
We must also ask ourselves if the media and the marketers promoting the prospects of the home team are doing us a favour by injecting such hyper-nationalism as they collectively raise unrealistic hopes of India's conquests. The martial music, the thumping of chests, the shouts of "India, India", the painting of the national colours on faces, the patriotic exhortations of politicos suggests that the Cup is already in the bag; the winning is just a formality. When we experience not just defeat but a sound thrashing, the Indian cricket fan, who has been duped by slick promos and to some extent his own credulity, finds reality intolerable. If, instead, expectations were kept at a reasonable level we would not undergo such a tremendous feeling of being let down. We could cope with the disappointment.
No other team in the World Cup, not even the Aussies and the Proteas, play under so much pressure, most of it induced by greedy advertisers hoping to exploit the passion for the game. I believe this exploitation has gone on long enough. The market must stop playing with the emotions of a nation. Meanwhile, we should remember we have just lost a game of cricket. We are not finished as a nation.

MS Dhoni is under as much pressure as Manmohan Singh.He is just the captain of a team of a sport which is played by less than 10% of the world's countries.Don't make him a God and don't demonise him later.Let us do our jobs and let him do his job.Switch off the Sidhus for a while.Please.