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“He looked a different player,” says Sachin Tendulkar on MS Dhoni’s Adelaide innings

Dixit Bhargav
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Sachin Tendulkar on MS Dhoni's Adelaide innings

Sachin Tendulkar on MS Dhoni’s Adelaide innings: The legendary batsman was wax lyrical about Dhoni’s match-winning knock at Adelaide.

Former India captain and current wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni scoring back-to-back half-centuries during the ongoing ODI series against Australia has instilled a great deal of confidence in Dhoni’s teammates, former cricketers and his plentiful fans.

In two matches, Dhoni has scored 106 runs at an average of 106 and a strike rate of 70.66. While Dhoni and the Indian would be wanting the strike rate to go up, watching him back among the runs is a development in the right direction. The fact that his last half-century before this series had come against Sri Lanka at Dharamsala 13 months ago calls for enough respite among his teammates.

Since Dhoni’s match-winning Adelaide innings, he has received approbation from varying corners. From his teammates in Dinesh Karthik, captain Virat Kohli and opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan to former cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Kris Srikkanth and Sourav Ganguly, everyone has been throwing accolades on the 37-year old cricketer.

Among the latest names to be added in the list is Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who admitted that Dhoni was rusty at Sydney. Citing the second match, Tendulkar said that Dhoni looked a ‘different player’.

“Yesterday’s (Tuesday) contribution was good. In the first match, I felt he was a little rusty, he was not being able to hit the ball where he wanted to and that can happen to anyone. He walked out in the second match thinking differently and from ball one, he looked a different player,” Tendulkar said on his app 100MB.

Highlighting Dhoni’s knack of getting his eye in, Tendulkar said that an in-form Dhoni is likely to control the game from one end.

“He (Dhoni) is someone who loves to play a few dot balls, understand the wicket, how the bowlers are bowling and likes to take the game till the end. That is exactly what he did. He is someone who is going to control the game from one end,” he added.

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Dixit Bhargav

Dixit Bhargav

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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.

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