Former captain of the Indian cricket team MS Dhoni is known for finishing matches in the cricket world. Dhoni finished many matches for Team India in his cricket career. However, there was also an occasion when Dhoni did not finish the match himself but got it finished by Virat Kohli.

Let us tell you that this incident was seen in the T20 World Cup played in Bangladesh during the year 2014. The semi-final match of the tournament was played between India and South Africa. In this match, while chasing the target of 173 runs given by South Africa, India needed 1 run to win.

However, during this time, after the dismissal of Suresh Raina (21), MS Dhoni came to bat on strike. But Dhoni defended the last ball of the 19th over which was bowled by former African bowler Beuran Hendricks. But Dhoni could have easily scored runs on this ball, but he did not do so.

Kohli reacted to Dhoni’s shot by asking why did you do this. But Dhoni wanted Kohli, who was unbeaten at 68* at that time, to finish the match because he was the one who brought the match to the end and Dhoni did not want to take the credit for finishing the match.

Watch the video of this gesture of Dhoni

Due to Kohli’s brilliant innings, India won the match by 6 wickets

On the other hand, if we tell you about the situation of that match, then India won the match by 6 wickets on the basis of Kohli’s brilliant innings of 72* runs. Batting first, South Africa scored 172 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs against India. For South Africa, Faf du Plessis scored 58 and JP Duminy scored 45* runs.

So when India came out to chase this target, they easily achieved this target in 19.1 overs by losing 4 wickets. Apart from Kohli’s (72*) brilliant innings, Rohit Sharma scored 23, Ajinkya Rahane 32, Yuvraj Singh 18 and Suresh Raina 21 runs.