Chennai Super Kings (🎐CSK) skipper MS Dhoni batted intelligently on a tricky pitch and scored a well-calculated half-century against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Chepauk on Sunday.
Dhoni now has a prod♕uced a fifty in every IPL seaso🎉n since the inaugural edition in 2008.
He has 21 half-centuries, 1ไ9 for CSK and two for Rising Pune Supergiant, to his name in 1♏78 matches. Dhoni, however, is yet to score a hundred in the IPL.
The 37-year-old’s final flourish against RR propelled CSK to 175 for 5 at the end of 20 overs. He smashed three successive sixes off Jaydev Undakat in the 20th over and remained unbeaten on 75 off 46 balls.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Not Whistle Podu, but that was Whistle Todu and Whistle Fodu from Dhoni.
Very very good to see— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
M S Dhoni has got to be the coolest leader to have walked onto ancrixket field. I hope all the young kids around the world🌄 copy MSD’s body language, demeanor and calmness🗹. .
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
What a knock to witness. , you beauty 😍
— Rajal Arora (@RajalArora)
MS Dhoni's highest scores in
79* (44) – CSK v KXIP (Mohali) 15 Apr 2018
75* (46) – CSK v RR (Chennai) tonight
(prev HS at Chennai: 67* v SRH in 2013)— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
The Old Warhorse. 💥🏏
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar)
One of the best we have seen of in IPL
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
MS Dhoni will you get you out of trouble, take you to safety and slip into the background as quickly.𒅌 Every time.
— Moulin (@Moulinparikh)
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'Vintage' MS Dhoni powers CSK to 175 for 5!
SCORECARD —>— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
What was looking like being an average total is now an absolutely challenging one – One Man made the Difference – MS Dhoni. Remember, he came in when were in a trouble at 27/3 . This is experience for you
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
Whistle Podu…. 🙏🤗
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Most unbeaten scores of 70-plus for 🍨keepers in IPL:
4 – MS Dhoni*
3 – KL Rahul— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman)
This is why everyone backs 🌠so much, he knows how to save his team.First, settle in slowly and then destroy the opposition in the final💃 overs. Superb batting!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
If you want a management lඣesso☂n without going to a renowned B school watch this innings again and again and give yourself an MBA. Class !
— Vikram Sathaye (@vikramsathaye)