MS Dhoni might be having a mediocre IPL to his standards But let us take nothing away from him as Dhoni again showed his hitting prowess by hitting the season’s highest wicket-taker Bhuvneshwar Kumar of Sunrisers Hyderabad for massive sixes in the 44th match of this year’s IPL.
Dhoni came into bat in a tricky situation after the fall of Ben Stokes, Dhoni being Dhoni took some time to settle, then in the 19th over he stepped up his game and the bowler in the receiving end was none other than Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, his India team-mate.
Dhoni got a yorker first up and he defended it with precision. the next ball was however hit for a boundary. then a wide followed, what followed it was a perfectly timed pull shot over deep midwicket boundary which sailed for a maximum.
The six was followed by yet another six a flatter one over the extra cover region.
Bhuvi’s over went for 19 runs. However, Dhoni perished in the next over caught-behind, to a bouncer from Siddarth Kaul which was expertly taken by Naman Ojha.
Pune scored 148 at the loss of 8 wickets with Dhoni scoring 31 off 21 balls. Rising Pune Supergiant went on to defend the score and beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 12 runs.
Here are the sixes he hit :
— Cricket Shots (@cric_shots) May 6, 2017
Video Credits – IPL.
Feature Image Source – iplt20.com (screen grab)
