With an hope to get another blazing start in pursuit of chasing down 182 against Rising Pune Supergiant, Kolkata Knight Riders once again promoted Sunil Narine to open the innings with Gautam Gambhir in the ongoing match at Pune. However, their hopes were quashed courtesy of a brilliant skill from MS Dhoni.
Narine had already raced to 16 off just 10 balls with the help of three fours and his presence would have surely caused a lot of problems for the home side before Dhoni cut short his promising innings. The incident happened in the third over when Gautam Gambhir tucked a Washington Sundar delivery towards the short fine leg and straightway set off for a single without realising that Narine is not the quickest of the runners. And he had to pay a hefty price for it as the dangerous Narine was caught short of his crease when Dhoni’s amazing flick dislodged the bails.
Shardul Thakur, who was standing at the short fine leg, made a quick underarm throw but there was still a lot to be done as Dhoni was standing with his back towards the stumps. But just like the previous times the former India skipper came out with flying colours once again.
Here is a clip of that dismissal: