MS Dhoni Told Me In Advance That Kamran Akmal Would Be Bowled: RP Singh

Aug 22, 2020 at 2:31 PM

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MS Dhoni Told Me In Advance That Kamran Akmal Would Be Bowled: RP Singh

Former Indian pacer has recalled, how genius MS Dhoni predicted that Kamran Akmal would be bowled just by observing his stance. RP Singh, who is considered as one of Dhoni’s closest has revealed an astounding incident of the skipper — MS Dhoni.

Recently, MS Dhoni shocked the world by announcing his retirement from international cricket on the 15th of August, after which tributes were showered by people across the world admiring his greatness.

The cricketing world salutes MS Dhoni for the name he made for himself and his country at the biggest stage of the sport of cricket. MS Dhoni played his last game in the Indian colours during the semi-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

RP Singh lauds MS Dhoni:

T20 World Cup 2007, Here, in this article, we have mentioned the five bowlers who registered five best bowling figures in the ICC T20 World Cup 2007.
RP Singh. Image Credit: Getty Images.

The 2007 inaugural T20 world cup saw India send a young side led by a newly appointed captain in MS Dhoni. Former Indian speedster RP Singh recalls how MS Dhoni correctly predicted that Pakistani batsman Kamran Akmal would be bowled, just by observing his stance.

“For me, it was during the T20 World Cup final in 2007 that I got the sense he is a very special kind of a player. He was not the same Dhoni I had been interacting with. If you look closely, MS didn’t have any defining batting performance in that tournament but he was always there, almost in every match,” Singh told Cricket.com.

MS Dhoni and RP Singh
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“In the final of the T20 World Cup, MS told me in advance that Kamran Akmal would be bowled as his feet were not moving. He asked me to forget about other things and just concentrate on bowling line and length.

“I realized that he had got a tremendous reading of batsmen because I would have bowled differently to Akmal. I had asked for a different fielding set-up. But he convinced me in a way it was easier to follow,” Singh added.

He was right about the prediction and Akmal misjudged a ball to play his bat in the air, and the ball went straight in to hit the stumps.

MS Dhoni’s Staggering Numbers For Team India:

MSD has astonishing numbers for team India in 538 matches he has scored 17,266 runs, 16 centuries and 108 fifties. The former team India skipper had an early retirement from Test cricket back in 2014. He made 90 appearances in red-ball cricket to score 4876 runs.

Dhoni carried on playing the other two formats and handled the captaincy to Virat Kohli in 2017. With 10,733 runs, Dhoni is fifth in the list of India’s all-time run-scorers in ODI behind Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid.

MS Dhoni farewell match
MS Dhoni. Image Credit: Getty Images.

MS Dhoni will be back in action in September leading CSK in the 13th edition of the IPL. The teams have reached the venue in UAE and are under the strict quarantining protocols set by the BCCI and UAE government. The tournament starts on 19th of September and the final will be played on November 10.

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