At Visakhapatnam nearly 13 years ago – India batting first opened with Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.Against Pak, with Rana bowling, Indian score at 26, Sachin was out for 2 and Sourav Ganguly hatched a master plan of promoting a man who had scored 0 in his first outing; 12 & 7* (against Bangladesh) and 3 against Pak at Kochi – the rest is history as the man scored 148 hitting Pakis to all parts of the ground – India totalled 356 and won by 58 runs.It is indeed thala Dhoni.Mahendra Singh Dhoni has since retired from Tests & T20 – but continues to play ODI.In 90 tests he has scored 4876 (256 catches and 38 stumpings); in T20 has 1444 runs ~ and in 318 ODIs has 9967 runs – 10 tons – average of 51.37; strike rate of 88.40 besides 297 catches, 107 stumpings and over 200 sixers ~ a true champion adored by millions of Cricket followers in India. In India, Cricket is a religion – while the game may not attract so many - over 10,000 spectators watched Chennai Super Kings play an intra-squad practice match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday, and Rajiv Kumar, the newly-appointed fielding coach of the Lions, was amazed at the fan support for the much-decorated franchise. He is new fielding coach who has earlier captained MSD and so well known to him.
MSD Conferred Padma Bushan 2018 ~ Receives in Style
Posted on the 03 April 2018 by Sampathkumar SampathAt Visakhapatnam nearly 13 years ago – India batting first opened with Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.Against Pak, with Rana bowling, Indian score at 26, Sachin was out for 2 and Sourav Ganguly hatched a master plan of promoting a man who had scored 0 in his first outing; 12 & 7* (against Bangladesh) and 3 against Pak at Kochi – the rest is history as the man scored 148 hitting Pakis to all parts of the ground – India totalled 356 and won by 58 runs.It is indeed thala Dhoni.Mahendra Singh Dhoni has since retired from Tests & T20 – but continues to play ODI.In 90 tests he has scored 4876 (256 catches and 38 stumpings); in T20 has 1444 runs ~ and in 318 ODIs has 9967 runs – 10 tons – average of 51.37; strike rate of 88.40 besides 297 catches, 107 stumpings and over 200 sixers ~ a true champion adored by millions of Cricket followers in India. In India, Cricket is a religion – while the game may not attract so many - over 10,000 spectators watched Chennai Super Kings play an intra-squad practice match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday, and Rajiv Kumar, the newly-appointed fielding coach of the Lions, was amazed at the fan support for the much-decorated franchise. He is new fielding coach who has earlier captained MSD and so well known to him.