2023-05-29 21:05:30
# Peter James
Sachin was a god in the minds of the people who made cricket a religion. Ramesh Tendulkar. The Indian cricket team was bathed in the glory of that great talent. The bright pole star in Yas, that is MS. Dhoni. In later days, severe upasa in situations where even ‘God’ had given up. The honey of great victories to the multitudes who have been waiting with prayers through Nai. Mahi’s glory has been consumed.
It had been almost a quarter of a century since Kapil’s Devils had won a title on the turf at Lord’s when Team India was handed to Mahi by the BCCI. By that time, Indian fans were used to seeing heroes like Mohammad Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid shaking hands at international venues.
At that time, a long-haired man named Mahi, who led the Twenty20 team, where all the greats left after the embarrassment of the ODI World Cup in the West Indies, flies to South Africa. Then India played only a handful of T20 matches. Finally Misbah Ulhaq of arch-rivals Pakistan at deep fine leg S. Mahi celebrated that first crown with nothing but emotion as she was held in Sreesanth’s arms. And that was just the beginning.
Now, when Jadeja scored a winning run to the fifth IPL title and when the pitch was calling, Mahi did not get up from the chair he was sitting on. He could never see emotion on his face. A legend who plays cricket with his brain and never stops chasing his teammates.
The Kul-Cha alliance, the Indian spinners, gives a different answer to the question of why India is not winning international titles after Dhoni. The reason they didn’t get wickets was because Dhoni bhai was not there behind the stumps. Yes, a cricketing brain that knows the field so deeply, and is capable of even understanding what the batsman at the crease is going to do beyond two balls. To borrow the language of Dr. Sunny, “Mahi has superhuman abilities when he stands behind the wicket. Mahi, who comes behind the wicket after the toss, knows the mind of the batsman, knows when to play fretfoot, which ball to step out. When he reaches the nets, he walks with the batsman and bowls without even knowing it, he learns the game. He is fired…”
So maybe this will be the last match of Dhoni’s cricket career. Mahi, who won the title in the first tournament as the captain of India, when he leaves the field with the crown, can be said to have cut all the empires and become the “Emperor of Cricket” with nothing more to gain.
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