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Chennai beat the Rajasthan Royals by 18 runs in an IPL match on Tuesday at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.
Dhoni, who fell as the number seven hitter in the 14th of innings, was undefeated on 29 of 16 balls. The right-handed hitter gave a hint of a storm at the end even though he was at the start. However, the match was almost eliminated before he could open his hand. They needed 36 races on the last lap. So hitting three sixes in a row didn’t help.
Gambhir criticized Dhoni at an ESPNcricinfo event after the game for reducing the batting order. The former captain, who has won the IPL title twice, cannot find the reason for such a decision in a great chase.
“Honestly, I’m a bit surprised. Is MS Dhoni hitting at No. 7? Ruturaj and Sam Karan have been dispatched before him. I can’t find any arguments for this. The captain must lead from the front. But what he’s done It’s not leading from the front. When the team chases 213 (216) runs, does it drop to number 7? The match was over. Maybe Faf was a lone warrior. “
Gambhir thinks that if someone else made such a decision, they would have to face the anger of the people. According to him, people are still calm because of Dhoni.
“If someone else was doing it, hitting with another captain (batter), I would have heard a lot of criticism. Maybe no one is saying anything about EM Dhoni. In the absence of Suresh Raina, he is convincing people that Sam Karan is better than him. Ruturaj Gaikwad, Karan, Kedar Yadav, Faf du Plessis, Murali Vijay, they are all better than him. “
Dhoni hit his first limit in the last over of the match. Those three sixes at Tom Karan’s are over. For Gambhir, those are just a few personal careers.
“Yeah, we can talk about Dhoni’s hitting in the last over (when he hit 3 sixes). But to be honest, it didn’t work out. It’s all just a personal run.”
According to Gambhir, Dhoni should have joined Du Plessis, who scored 62 of 36 balls, as well as trying to win the match. The former Indian batsman also questioned his drive to win the match.
“There’s no problem going out early. At least start leading from the front, trying to invigorate the team. What he did last time, maybe if he had done it at 4 or 5 together with Faf, he could have made the game. He probably had no intention of winning the match. “
Gambhir also said that Dhoni has made that decision with his hitting in mind for the future.
“I think they gave up after that. And Dhoni was probably trying to get back on track hitting at the end. He wanted to score a few runs so he could play those innings in the next few games.”
However, Chennai head coach Steven Fleming has backed Dhoni’s decision to hit under. He also explained the reason why they left Karan and Ruturaj earlier at the end of the match.
“MS, the expert hitter towards the end of innings, was always like this. When we fell behind, Karan was trying to keep us in the game. As we’ve seen before, it’s good to get his heat … we want to play offensive cricket. We have a long batting order, we’ve tried to use it wisely. “
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