Dhoni played an unbeaten inning of 37* runs in 16 balls against Delhi Capitals.
MS Dhoni, who is playing as a player for the first time in IPL 2024, is seen finishing matches for his team in IPL this year. Let us tell you that yesterday on March 31, fans got to see vintage Dhoni in the Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings match in Vizag.
Let us tell you that in this match, Dhoni batted amazingly and played an unbeaten inning of 37* runs with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes in 16 balls. Although, this innings of Dhoni could not give victory to Chennai, but Dhoni reduced the margin of defeat to 20 runs.
On the other hand, during this innings, Dhoni played a shot which he had played against Chaminda Vaas during his unbeaten 183* run innings on this ground in the year 2005. It is said that during this innings, Dhoni’s era had started in Indian cricket. Dhoni played this innings against Sri Lanka. So, during this innings, Dhoni played exactly the same shot against Delhi in the extra cover area.
Watch the video of this shot of Dhoni
17.6 was similar to this. pic.twitter.com/HpMovBvDeE
— Akash (@rebelmla10) March 31, 2024
Also, if we tell you about this innings of Dhoni, in that match Dhoni came to bat at number 3 and this was the second century of his ODI career. Before this he had scored a century against Pakistan. In this match, Dhoni batted till the 47th over, due to which India easily achieved the target of 299 runs with 6 wickets in hand.
Apart from this, Dhoni had played innings of 45* and 80 runs in the fourth and sixth matches of the series against Sri Lanka respectively. India won this ODI series against Sri Lanka by 6-1. The story after this, you all know very well that India had won all three ICC trophies (T20 World Cup 2007, World Cup 2011 and Champion Trophy 2013) under the captaincy of Dhoni.