who is more cool headed while batting,MS Dhoni or James Franklin?
By stardustcdsd
@stardustcdsd (1856)
India
May 6, 2012 12:17am CST
hi friends.i have been meaning to start this discussion for a long time ever since franklin started playing for MI but forgot.
i have seen this guy play as casual as possible even when the runrate required is over 9 an over.
he hardly sweat while batting and doesn't play any rash shot which usually happens when someone is under pressure.
to be honest,he is most level-headed guy in MI and that the reason he is the team while players like blizzard,jacobs,levi struggle to keep their place.
there is another guy who has the tag of being cool.very calm under any circumstances,allegedly.lol.
MS Dhoni.
but who is the most-level headed and cool under pressure guy,MSD or Franklin?
there may be other cool guys out there but i didn't notice.
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7 responses
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
6 May 12
Hi star,
You said it rightly. A game is not of mere fours and sixes. Calm and composure are also required to make it to a win. Dhoni, though called captain cool, in my opinion he seldom suppresses pressures. On the other hand Franklin , as you have mentioned does not show any sign that they are on the verge of losing the game.
Calm and coolness is his forte. Franklin supersedes Dhoni in this test of nerve.
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@Wakeupsud (201)
• India
6 May 12
I think it has to be Dhoni as he is the cool headed person and plays according to the plan,but the only thing goes against him is while chasing he leaves it for too much late and end up in close matches.Franklin is also a cool headed palyer and is there much closer to him.There is one more player who is Chris gayle as any moment he can change the flow of the game.As we have seen the innings in which he played 5 sixes from 5 bowls of Rahul Sharma as until then he was not stroking the ball that fiercly and in this way he changed the flow of the game and then won the match for his team.
@thewonderboy (7501)
• India
6 May 12
I think dhoni is more coll headed on batting. He had the power to do big shots with less tensions but now he is not able to do it becuase he is unlucky to play the big ones.
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@ROCKHARISH3844 (395)
• India
6 May 12
I think MS Dhoni. he has more pressure of the captain and with that pressure he plays nicely.
Franklin is also a cool man and he improved a lot in his batting. He started his carrier as a new ball bowler and now he is opening batsmen in MI.
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@Bijoykrishna (16)
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6 May 12
It clearly has to be Ms Dhoni. I mean the way he batted to win the game on the last ball against Rajasthan Royals was purely epic. Even though the pressure was tremendous, there was no rush, no hurry what so ever. He just waited till the last ball and won it by taking 2 runs.
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
19 May 12
I think most probably James Franklin is cool now a days. I think Dhoni was one of the coolest cricketer until he started to feel the pressure recently. I think in some games CSK has not done very well and this might have added more pressure to MSD. To my personal opinion Rahul Dravid is one of the coolest cricketer world has ever seen. I think Rahul Dravid is one of the best behaved cricketer in the field of cricket.
