Tendulkar declines Test captaincy

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Sachin Tendulkar declined the Indian Test captaincy, citing personal reasons, two days before the national selectors are scheduled to decide on the position. "I don't feel right about it at the moment," Tendulkar told CNN-IBN, an Indian news channel, reports Cricinfo.
Tendulkar (34) was widely tipped to be named as India's Test captain -- he was vice-captain during the Test series in Bangladesh and England -- after Rahul Dravid resigned in September. However, it is believed he has met the board of selectors and stated his reluctance. However, Greg Chappell, who quit as India's coach in April, said Dhoni may be too inexperienced for the Test captaincy.
"He (Dhoni) is doing his apprenticeship in the limited-over forms of the game," Chappell told the news channel Times Now. "Probably another 12 months or more I think before he is perhaps ready for all three of them. A tour of Australia behind him will finish him off nicely as a cricketer and as a potential leader."
Ravi Shastri, who was India's manager in Bangladesh earlier this year, felt that handling the Test captaincy to Dhoni would burden him. "It will put him under a lot of pressure. In future he may do it but not at this moment," he told the PTI. "He has a lot of talent but I think he is not ready for this responsibility now."