Is MS Dhoni the Harry Potter of Cricketing World?

Last few days, a thought comparing India captain MS Dhoni to Wizarding world legend Harry Potter has been crossing my mind. While it may seem far fetched, on certain points, parallels can most certainly be drawn between the two. Look for example the sports they play- Dhoni is the best player his team has in his position, Harry is the best player his team has for his position. Both have won their teams trophies on their own. However on the flip side, both have never been made accountable for what can be called off limit and shameful behavior, only being saved from the sack because of their perceived importance.

On any other day, I would never have even thought of comparing these two. However, when MSD came out and actually saw "positives" from the messed up New Zealand tour, where he could have done so much more, these comparisons- especially those where both have been given a long long rope- started to surface.

I have nothing against Dhoni the one day captain- he is the best in business, but just his passivity and tendency to throw away test matches just riles me. And despite him doing this for a long long time, he doesn't get the sack he deserves. For me, he should go as the captain of the test team, on his own, but stay in and around the team.

 The only other character who gets this long a rope is Harry Potter, and there the comparisons start to form. this long rope syndrome is the only reason i was prompted to write this anyway. I know that many will think that this is probably too stretched and compared, but hey, have a look from this point of view as well. Im giving a comparison table describing acts of Harry and MSD with some comparison parameters. Im not forcing them down your throat, but do have a serious consideration about it.

Point of Comparison	Harry Potter	MS Dhoni
Sports Played	Quidditch	Cricket
Position	Seeker	Wicket Keeper
Status in team	Best player for his position	Best player for his position
Important Cups comparisons	Won the Quidditch Cup for the team when the senior most player in the team had his final chance (Oliver Wood)	Won the Cricket world cup for the team when the senior most player in the team had his final chance (Sachin)
Being handed captaincy even though not the seniormost in the team	Captain ahead of Angelina Johnson	Captain ahead of Viru, Gauti etc
Strange selections as captain	Selected Ron Weasley, his buddy when he was a pathetic keeper, prompting Slytherins to sing “Weasley is our King”. Picked Dean Thomas for a match- who was again his buddy.	Keeps picking pathetic non performing players such as Raina, Ishant, Jaddu etc as they are his buddies
Overlooking good players for to include his buddies in the team	Ron for Cormac MacLaggen	Ishant instead of Umesh etc, Jadeja/Ashwin instead of Mishra etc
Winning Tournaments that he did not deserve to win	Triwizard Tournament- thanks to Voldemort and Cedric being killed	Champions trophy- thanks to rain and England choking
Luck factor	Incredibly lucky to have numerous narrow escapes	Incredibly lucky to have numerous narrow escapes
What happens when you leave them alone in impending danger	Loses his consciousness when he comes near dementors. Has to learn a new spell to overcome it	Loses his off stump/Edges to the slips when facing inswingers from genuine fast bowlers such has Steyn, Johnson etc. Has never learnt how to overcome it
Applying glaze and polish to victories after donkey work by others	Ron and Hermoine do all the hard work to reach the philosophers stone, he gets all the applause	Gambhir and Yuvraj and Zaheer do all the hard work in WC2011, gets all the applause for the final performance
Lack of killer instinct in duels	When he has his opponent down and out, uses the expelliarmus spell and goes on defensive	When he has his opponent down and out, uses square leg, deep midwicket and long on and sweeper and goes on defensive
Has a bigshot godfather who no one likes	Sirius Black	N. Srinivasan
Most popular person in	Gryffindor	CSK
Atleast 1 official wanted him sacked	Snape	Amarnath
What happens?	Decision overruled	Decision overruled
Being saved by others from tight situation he lands himself in	Number of times people like Neville, Ron, Hermoine, Sirius, Lupin, Dumbledore save him is huge	Number of times people like Sehwag, Yuvraj, Kohli, save him is huge
Invisibility	Tends to hide under the invisibility cloak to avoid trouble	Tends to wear an invisibility cloak to hide from media when team is in trouble/loses badly
Framed by someone close to his perceived god father	Peter Pettigrew	Gurunath Meyiappan
Is careless causing others to land in trouble	Sirius Black killed at Ministry of Magic when he goes to “save” him.	So many test matches “killed” when he goes to “save” them by batting carelessly
Occlumancy	Is utterly incapable of hiding what is in his mind from opponents who take full advantage of it	Is utterly incapable of hiding what is in his mind from opponents who take full advantage of it
Other irresponsible behaviour which would have have led to expulsion if it were done by others	Blowing up Aunt Marge by magic, Driving a flying car to Hogwarts, sneaking out of the castle into hogsmeade	8 test matches lost on the trot away from home, no overseas win in last 14 games and still has says “there are positives”
But what really happened?	Let off each and every time and never sacked thanks to intervention from people holding power- Dumbledore, Fudge etc	Let off each and every time and never sacked thanks to intervention from people holding power- N. Srinivasan, Jagmohan Dalmiya etc
Why?	He is untouchable as the chosen one	He is untouchable as the chosen one

Its probably time to say good bye to this MS Dhoni the captain, from the test team,

Instead, the Indian test team can do so much with this MS Dhoni the swashbuckling wicketkeeping batsman: