MS Dhoni’s 3 sixes against Hardik Pandya, Sunil Gavaskar’s outspoken ‘interest match’ dig | Cricket News

The IPL 2024 match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings was memorable for many reasons. The youngsters performed well and MI star batsman Rohit Sharma hit a single. While MI lost the match, popularly known as the national derby of the IPL, what kept the Wankhede Stadium and the Indian team going were the three sixes that MS Dhoni hit in the final over of CSK’s innings. Dhoni scored 20 points from four balls, which is also CSK’s winning percentage.

After the match, former Indian cricket team captain Sunil Gavaskar took a jibe at the Mumbai Indians bowlers.

“Okay, so I’m pretty sure Mumbai Indians also saw what he was practicing so they decided that this could be his last game in Mumbai so let’s do it in the same way too so that he can Please listen to the Mumbai audience, I’m not going to get over this, I don’t… Like all Indians, I’m a fan of his and I want to see him hit sixes, but not three sixes in a row, Gavaskar said in ” Star Sports” said in the program.

“It’s a full-length delivery, almost like I said, like a benefit match, you know, there’s a beneficiary and you want to make sure that the beneficiary is successful in his benefit match and doesn’t come out first Ball, that’s the kind of bowling ball.”

Absolute cinema! 3 sixes in a row.
Tonight, Chapri Hardik Pandya was seen as Dilhara Fernando by MS Dhoni.
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The game was often a matter of prestige for MI fans and Hardik Pandya was also booed. Ever since he took over as captain from Rohit Sharma, he has been on the receiving end of vitriol from fans of the team. After MI’s loss to CSK, Gavaskar also criticized Pandya’s captaincy and his bowling.

“It was probably the worst bowling I’ve seen in a long time. It looked like I almost hugged my hero. I had a bowling type of delivery where he would hit a six. One when you know that batting The hand was looking for a long ball to hit and the next ball was a long ball again, a full delivery down the leg side and he was looking for it and hit it for six. Absolutely average bowling, average captain.” Gavaskar said in his half-time analysis.