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“Greatest finisher ever”: Virat Kohli jumps out of seat to cheer for MS Dhoni in DC vs CSK IPL 2021 Qualifier 1

Dixit Bhargav
|PublishedOct 10, 2021

"Greatest finisher ever": Virat Kohli jumps out of seat to cheer for MS Dhoni in DC vs CSK IPL 2021 Qualifier 1

Virat Kohli jumps out of seat: The captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore didn’t hesitate in appreciating his counterpart tonight.

During the Qualifier 1 of the ongoing 14th season of the Indian Premier League between Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings in Dubai, Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni rewound the clock by finishing a tense chase in style.

Coming in to bat at no. 7 in the penultimate over, an out-of-form Dhoni walked in with his team needing 24 runs to win off just 11 balls. Having failed to score a run off the first delivery that he faced, Dhoni made amends quickly to whack Capitals pacer Avesh Khan for a six through the mid-wicket region on the following delivery.

With Tom Curran dismissing his English teammate in Moeen Ali (16) in the last over, Super Kings needed 13 runs off five deliveries with Dhoni on strike. What followed was Dhoni hitting a couple of boundaries to reduce the equation to five off three.

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While Dhoni’s loyal fan-base would’ve hoped for him to hit a six to seal the chase, the 40-year old player hitting his third four of the innings was enough for his team to enter their eighth IPL final.

The sight of Dhoni striking at 300 made him an instant source of amazement at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium whilst also earning him accolades across social media platforms mainly from Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli.

Virat Kohli jumps out of seat to cheer for MS Dhoni in DC vs CSK IPL 2021 Qualifier 1

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.