New Zealand cricketer Mitchell McClenaghan has recently given his view on MS Dhoni after a fan asked him for few words about the former Indian World Cup-winning captain.
In the wake of the COVID-19 or coronavirus, the world cricket is taking rest as almost every event has been postponed. In this leisure period, the 33-year-old left-arm pacer Mitchell McClenaghan has recently faced the Q&A session on Twitter.
While a fan asked him for a few words about MS Dhoni.
McClenaghan replied the fan, “Rather not bowl to him ?”
Rather not bowl to him ?
— Mitchell McClenaghan (@Mitch_Savage) March 21, 2020
Mitchell McClenaghan made his international debut in December 2012. He was once a regular player for New Zealand as he was the fastest Kiwi bowler to take 50 ODI wickets (in 23 ODIs). But later, his position has been faded away from the national team due to the tough competitions and fitness issues.
Last time, he served for the Blackcaps in March 2016. While he has played one more international match after that in May 2018 but it was for ICC World XI.
McClenaghan has played 48 ODIs and 29 T20Is where he has taken 82 and 30 wickets respectively.
In the Indian Premier League (IPL), McClenaghan is still serving for Mumbai Indians (MI).
In his cricket career, McClenaghan has faced MS Dhoni for multiple times. While McClenaghan has managed to dismiss Dhoni for once each in the ODI and T20 cricket, Dhoni has achieved better success against him for most of the times.
In T20 cricket, they have met in the IPL tournaments.
Mitchell McClenaghan (bowler) vs MS Dhoni (batsman)
| Format | Runs | Balls | Outs | Dots | 4s/6s | Strike-rate |
| ODIs | 35 | 41 | 1 | 22 | 4/0 | 85.37 |
| T20s | 31 | 25 | 1 | 10 | 2/2 | 124.00 |
(Special Note: T20s means all kind of recognised T20 cricket matches. However, McClenaghan and Dhoni have never met in the T20I cricket yet)
As McClenaghan hasn’t a good experience against Dhoni, the Kiwi bowler feels it is better to not bowl to him.