There are not many players or captains like Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the modern game. Its compound presence when the pressures at the boiling point have turned most of the opposition. His ability to see through the next movement of opponents has been one of the greatest strengths for Chennai Super Kings, who achieved five titles of the Premier League (IPL) of India.
KKR ALLROUNDER VENKATESH IYER has praise of Mrs. Dhoni
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Allrounder Venkatesh Iyer, after witnessing these skills in the middle, is amazed by the former captain of India when he remembered an IPL 2023 game where he came out due to Dhoni’s strategic domain.
“Dhoni took a gardener from the deep square leg and placed him in the short third, slightly far from the place where he is usually the short third. He [very] Next ball, I arrived directly at the hands of Third Sorth, ”Iyer told Espncricinfo in an interview.
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Iyer was hitting in nineteenth and scored two limits before hitting the ball directly to Ravindra Jadeja in the bowling of Deepak Chahaha. Curious about how all things happened according to Dhoni’s plan, Iyer spoke with him after the game that revealed a detail in which he had barely thought.
“After the game, I asked Dhoni why he placed that gardener in that place and had an adequate response for it. I was trying to understand the impact of the ball from my bat, the angles. His reading of angles is out of the world, and he knew that if I get to this take, he has to go in that direction, so he had a gardener there. This is being proactive. This is a true captaincy: understanding what a batter is doing, ”said Iyer.
KKR looks at a hard defense of the title in IPL 2025
Dhoni had renounced CSK’s captaincy when changing the hands of Ravindra Jadeja and then returned to him and then opened the batter Ruturaj Gaikwad.
They will face the Defensores KKR champions on April 11 at the Ma Chidambaram stadium in Chennai. The section back of the teams will be played on May 7 at Eden Gardens.
Iyer, who was an integral part of the third victory of the KKR title last year, was launched by the franchise at the auction, but was bought for a massive price of INR 23.75 million rupees in the auction.
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