Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni left most of his fans and even cricketing pundits speechless by stretching over 2 meters in his attempt to get back to the crease during the second T20I against Australia at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Wednesday.
Playing only the second ball of his innings, Dhoni decided to come down the track to skip down the track to disturb the length of the Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa in the 12th over of the Indian innings. But young leggie was smart enough to throw it wide. Having no chance of making contact with the ball, MS got back to his crease in a fashion only he could do.
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Instead of taking a quick backward step, Dhoni stationed his front foot and stretched his back leg back in the crease before Australian keeper Peter Handscomb took the bails off. Here is the video of the same:
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Dhoni’s stretch, marginally short of being an accurate split, later on, was measured to be of 2.14 meters.
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Earlier in the game, after winning the toss again, the Australian skipper, Aaron Finch decided to bowl first again with no changes in the squad. On the other hand, the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli revealed that the men in blue have made three changes as Rohit Sharma, Mayank Markande, and Umesh Yadav made way for Shikhar Dhawan, Vijay Shankar, and Siddharth Kaul.
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Team India reached a total of 190/4 in their quota of 20 overs with Kohli scoring 72 off just 38 balls. India smashed 91 runs in the last six overs. For Australia, Jason Behrendroff did a decent job as he gave away just 17 runs in his quota of 3 overs and got one wicket of Dhawan as well.
