Former champions Chennai Super Kings struggled against Gujarat Titans in their first match of the IPL 2023 T20 series, which has come to entertain Indian cricket fans. However, with the support of Tamil Nadu fans in their stronghold Chepauk, Chennai defeated Lucknow by 12 runs in the 2nd match and returned to winning ways by registering their first win. In that match, the main batsmen like Ruduraj Gaikwad 57 and Davon Conway 47 played an important role in the victory while Moeen Ali performed brilliantly and took 4 wickets to win the man of the match award.
But the captain MS Dhoni, who entered the field in the last over before them, hit the following balls of England’s Mark Wood with a speed of 145-150 km and made the Chepak fans happy enough to ask for Marina beach and scored 12 runs and was dismissed in the very next ball. Dhoni proved that his born finishing style, even at the age of 41, will not leave him forever since that 12-run win in the end had a huge impact.
Sehwag Appreciation:
Similarly in the first match, he scored 14* (7) in the last over and added these 12 runs to become the first wicket-keeper batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL history and the 7th batsman overall. Especially Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner, Suresh Raina, all the players who have already crossed 5000 runs have added those runs while playing in the top order, only Dhoni has added 5000 runs by playing in the middle order full of pressure like 5, 6, 7.
Through this, he also got the honor of being the first middle order batsman to score 5000 runs in the IPL series. In this case, former Virender Sehwag praised Dhoni and said that no one else could have scored so many runs in the middle order without playing for achievements such as 5000 and 7000 runs. Here is what he talked about on Star Sports TV:
“If you go to MS Dhoni and ask this, he will ask you what is the difference between 5000, 3000 or 7000 runs. Because his intention is to win trophies rather than runs. That is what he has done even now. I especially wouldn’t think he’s a gamer for milestone achievements. That’s how I played in my time too.”
“Who knows how many runs we scored? But it is also true that you will think about these numbers after retirement. Because everyone will think about how many runs the players have scored after retirement. And usually the batsmen in the top order are expected to score big runs. But MS Dhoni has usually come in middle order or lower middle order and scored 5000 runs.”
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“No other player could have scored so many runs at his place. However, he has been consistently scoring runs at that spot and getting wins for his team. He is a great player.”