MS Dhoni Has a Lucky Escape at MCG, Survives Despite Edging the Ball to Wicket Keeper During Ind vs Aus 3rd ODI Gillette Series 2019
India won the 3rd ODI Gillette Series 2019 and the team went on to win the same and walked away with the title.
India won the 3rd ODI Gillette Series 2019 and the team went on to win the same and walked away with the title. MS Dhoni and who scored an unbeaten knock of 87 runs and Kedar Jadhav for 61 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal also snapped six wickets and registered his career-best figures. Fortunes smiled on the 37-year-old not once, not twice but thrice. The former Indian captain was once dropped on 0 and then survived despite edging the ball to the keeper. Dhoni was also dropped during the Aaron Finch on 47.1 over. MS Dhoni Could Join Elite List of Players Like Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli During Ind vs Aus, 3rd ODI 2019.
Even Virat Kohli was quite lucky until he was on the crease. However, the video of Dhoni edging the ball to the keeper went viral. It was in the 29th over that Dhoni found his bat edged and carried it to the wicket-keeper Alex Carey. Glen Maxwell appealed for the same, Peter Siddle also appealed Faint-heartedly. The umpire obviously did not give him out and Dhoni continued batting. The video was shared by the official account of Cricket Australia. Check out the video below
Talking about Dhoni, this was the third time he scored a half-century in the three-match ODI series. With this, he got more than 1000 runs in Australia and registered his name along with the prolific list of cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. Mahi was just 34 runs away from getting the record. He also walked away with the Man of the Series award.
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