{"id":15092,"date":"2012-09-29T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-indias-dhoni-wants-fearless-batting-from-teammates\/"},"modified":"2012-09-29T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T15:09:45","slug":"cricket-indias-dhoni-wants-fearless-batting-from-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-indias-dhoni-wants-fearless-batting-from-teammates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-India&#8217;s Dhoni wants fearless batting from teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ranga Sirilal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">COLOMBO, Sept 29<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wants his batsmen to throw caution to the wind and play their natural attacking game in Sunday&#8217;s crucial match against Pakistan to revive their stuttering World Twenty20 campaign.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India, who suffered a humiliating nine-wicket loss against Australia in their first Super Eights match, meet arch-rivals Pakistan in a must-win game in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Batting first, the 2007 champions laboured to 140 for seven wickets before a record opening stand of 133 by David Warner and Shane Watson helped Australia canter to victory on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dhoni urged his teammates to walk out and express themselves against Pakistan without fearing about the result.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think if you just see the potential, the team has got the potential and it&#8217;s just that you have to implement it on the field,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also what&#8217;s important for us is to go in and just express ourselves&#8230; let&#8217;s play the big shots and play with lot of confidence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And whatever the result may be, let&#8217;s not care about the result because it&#8217;s a very different format.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t do lot of planning&#8230; just go out, you have the talent, you have resources, just express yourself.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Sept 29 (Reuters) &#8211; India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni wants his batsmen to throw caution to the wind and play their natural attacking game in Sunday&#8217;s crucial match against Pakistan to revive their stuttering World Twenty20 campaign. India, who suffered a humiliating nine-wicket loss against Australia in their first Super Eights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}