2024-04-02 17:08:22
Visakhapatnam: MS Dhoni graced the field for the first time in the Indian Premier League 2024 when he entered the field with a bat. There was a Diwali like atmosphere in the stadium at midnight. The 42-year-old star thrilled the audience at the ACA-VDCA Stadium and in their homes. Dhoni turned the tide of the times by playing a stormy innings of 37 runs in 16 balls with the help of three sixes and four fours. He reminded the old golden days by scoring 20 runs in the last over against Enrique Nortje, one of the most dangerous bowlers in the world. Dhoni hit two sixes off the Proteas pacer in the last over, including a one-handed six, which thrilled the crowd in Vizag.
Nortje, who is returning to competitive cricket after injury, looked in great form in the last overs and his yorkers were very accurate. When CSK needed 43 runs in the 20th over, Dhoni dismissed Nortje in the last over. On the first ball bowled a yorker, the former CSK captain hit a bullet-speed four over extra cover. The second ball, a full toss, went for a one-handed six over midwicket.
Things kept getting worse for the Proteas fast bowler as he bowled another full toss on the fourth ball and this too came up with a boundary. Dhoni ended his brilliant cameo innings of 37 runs in 16 balls with a six over extra cover on the last full toss. Jio Cinema, the OTT broadcast partner of the Indian Premier League 2024, has shared a video on its social media account, in which when Dhoni hits a six with one hand, the mouth of one of his young fans present in the stadium is left wide open.