Yesterday Dhoni Shows His Hilarious Keeping Skills In 2nd T20 With West Indies. Even Commentator Also Laughing
India’s first T20I in America has culminated in a last ball thriller on Saturday at Central Broward Regional Park, Florida. Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni could have a chance to alter the result taking two runs off the last ball by Dwayne Bravo. But Dhoni got out meekly.
Dhoni admitted that his execution of his last-ball dismissal, which led to his side’s one run loss against the West Indies was wrong, but said will take positive from the from nerve wrecking Twenty 20 International match.
“It was an amazing game. We couldn’t have expected more from the batting unit. The last ball, the thinking was right but the execution was wrong. Everything is judged by execution,” Dhoni said after the match.
West Indies batting first posts a mammoth total of 245 in 20 overs. Chasing 246 India were on the right track to complete the chase with KL Rahul scored a 46 ball 100-his maiden T20 hundred, but Dhoni was the last batsman to be dismissed. Rahul finally was unbeaten on 110.
India needed to score two runs from the final ball to win the match but Dhoni failed to get those runs as he was caught by Marlon Samuels, slicing a slower delivery off Dwayne Bravo to the heartbreak of a large number of Indian supporters at the stands.
India thus failed to notch up the highest ever successful run chase in T20 Internationals as they fell short by just one run in a nerve wrecking last ball finish to lose the first of the two T20 match against the West Indies.
“We did most things right. Whenever there was a partnership, we kept the asking rate at just 12. I felt Rahul was outstanding throughout. The others too were superb because it’s not always easy to chase down 250. A win would have been perfect, but there were so many things we did right today,” Dhoni, who scored 43 off 25 balls, added.
West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite said that he gave the go-ahead to Bravo’s plan to bowl a slower ball to Dhoni.
“When Bravo said he was bowling a slower ball at the end, I told him that he had my backing. But in my mind, I was thinking ‘really?’. We never do things easy, but we held our nerve. We couldn’t quite tell who was the home team. It was a great game of cricket,” he said.
Asked what he though when his captain threw the ball to him to bowl the final over, Bravo said, “With nine runs to go, I said we didn’t have anything to lose. I’d like to test my skills in these kinds of situations.”
“We know what MS (Dhoni) can do. He can finish off the game with one hit. I wanted to ensure the first ball didn’t go for a boundary. I wanted to keep my composure and back my skills with the two balls: the slower one and the yorker,” Bravo said.
“We wanted to keep midwicket in to prevent him from just hitting it towards that region. I was a touch apprehensive to bowl the slower delivery, but then I saw MS walking across and so bowled it and it worked out.”