Published: Jun 14, 2015, 10:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Jun 14, 2015, 10:30 AM (IST)
MS Dhoni never had the best of techniques and now that he has retired from the longest form of the game, Test cricket, Dhoni is keen to get back to his original self of hitting the ball hard and clean. Just a couple of days before leaving for the ODI series against Bangladesh in Dhaka, Dhoni turned up for a surprise batting session at the National Stadium in New Delhi reported TOI.
It was the very ground where Dhoni honed his batting skills with his coach MP Singh. MP Singh told TOI that Dhoni had changed his technique to suit Test cricket but now that he had retired from Tests, he said, “He said he had changed his stance and technique for Test cricket. Now that he doesn’t have to think about the format, he wants to get back to his previous technique. He had widened his stance and started to keep his bat between the feet. He has now decided to revert to his earlier stance in a bid to bring back the booming backlift. He demonstrated it to me and asked if it resembled his original stance,” the coach said. Read: Darren Sammy praises MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli for their functionality and involvement in cricket
Dhyanchand Stadium had a surprise guest MS Dhoni today while children were their for the #SAI scheme pic.twitter.com/uIAeNApP7p
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Knowing that he would get to face a lot of spin in Bangladesh, he had Yuzvendra Chahal and Pawan Negi bowling to him in the nets and Dhoni got going against them to get his hitting flourish back in sync. On asked on Dhoni’s batting then, the coach said, “He was hitting them hard and clean, like he used to do in his younger days. Don’t be surprised if you see an attacking Dhoni in action in Bangladesh. I met him a few times in the last few years. Now he seems very relaxed and mentally strong.”
Dhoni also had a chat with the youngsters and there was also a talk about him promoting himself up the order. “We discussed if he could come up the order. He said he will deliberate if somehow batting at No. 4 can work out for him. He looks fit enough to carry on for some more time now,” the coach said. Read: MS Dhoni only Indian to list Forbes’ 100 highest-paid athletes in the world
