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During the match against Rajasthan Royals, Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni raised some eyebrows with his tactics. In a chase that lasted 217 runs, he came to bat at number seven and left many fans and experts scratching their heads about his batting role in the game.
Nevertheless MS Dhoni Justifying his long absence from the field, he was criticized by former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir for “not leading from the front.” Kevin Pietersen, the former England cricketer, has now entered the list of Dhoni’s critics for his tactics in the game.
It’s not a matter of experimentation, of saying, ‘Oh, it’s the start of the tournament.’ Let me tell you, T20 cricket is very easy to bite you. You can end up losing five games very quickly and then you end up thinking, “Oh my God, are we going to make the finals, actually?” ‘. “I’m not buying this nonsense,” Pietersen said on Star Sports after the match.
“There are some different things we want to do, like sending Sam or Jadeja. That’s something we haven’t done for a long time, and this gives us the opportunity to do that at the start of the tournament,” Dhoni said.
“You can see the senior players stepping in and taking on that extra responsibility as the tournament progresses.”
Well, other than that, we were one team that kept doing the same thing. I feel like we have a chance to try some different things. He added, “We can return to our capabilities if they do not succeed.”
However, Pietersen believed the outcome of the match might have been different if Dhoni had batted higher up the order.
You have to give yourself the possibility, at least, to win the game. Du Plessis started to get going when you see how close they were, then MS Dhoni started to get to the final, and then after that CSK He lost by only 16 points.
So we were talking about a 4 or 5 over time where they just hit it, and they played it stupid. They had to take over the game with little focus there. They could have easily gotten away with this outcome. “You can win this game if you need 20 at the end,” Petersen said.