Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni) By defeating defending champions Gujarat Titans in the first qualifier of IPL 2023, his team Chennai Super Kings entered the final for the 10th time. Since then there is talk of MS Dhoni once again all around. After this match, when Harsh Bhogle asked Dhoni whether he will retire, Dhoni has said that he does not want to worry about it, he still has 8 to 9 months, he will think about it before the mini auction. . Hardik Pandya was in front of Dhoni in this match.
Let us tell you that the best team of this season has been Gujarat Titans. Gujarat performed brilliantly and won the maximum number of 10 matches to toss in the points table. Before this match, Chennai had lost to Gujarat in every match. In such a situation, Hardik’s team was looking heavy on Dhoni’s team, but it is said that Guru is Guru and disciple is disciple. In fact, Hardik Pandya considers Dhoni as his ideal and keeps taking advice from him on important occasions.
Dhoni made a big plan for Hardik
Chennai scored 172 runs in this match. Chasing this target, Hardik came to bat at number 3. Dhoni knew that Hardik had come to bat at number 3 only to play the captaincy innings while playing carefully and to win the team. That’s why Dhoni made a plan and killed Hardik under it. In this plan, Dhoni was supported by the experienced player of the team, Ravindra Jadeja.
CSK’s spin bowling Mahesh Teekshana was bowling to Hardik. Then Dhoni called a fielder at point from the leg side and made a plan to get Hardik out. On its very next ball, Hardik moved towards the leg site and cut Tikshana’s ball hard and the ball went straight into the hands of fielder Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik’s innings ended on 8 runs.
It is clear from this that Dhoni is a master in planning. Messing with them can be difficult for anyone. To win from Dhoni, one has to walk 10 steps ahead of him. Which Hardik Pandya and Gujarat team could not do and lost qualifier 1.
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