{"id":270,"date":"2006-06-06T10:25:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/06\/ms-dhoni-spirit\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:59:40","slug":"ms-dhoni-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/06\/06\/ms-dhoni-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni &#8230;..Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India declared their second innings on 521 for six after a controversy surrounding M S Dhoni&#8217;s dismissal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dhoni, who played like a man possessed, smashed three consecutive sixes off Dave Mohammad. He then smashed a fourth, <strong>but was caught by Daren Ganga on the ropes<\/strong>.<strong>It was unclear to both the field umpires and third umpire<\/strong> whether Ganga had taken the catch cleanly as he claimed or had he stepped on the rope.<\/p>\n<p>A consultation followed, holding up the game and West Indies captain <strong>Brian Lara was not happy <\/strong>when the umpires decided in Dhoni&#8217;s favour. Indian skipper Rahul Dravid then signalled for the <strong>declaration <\/strong>and Dhoni and Mohammad Kaif walked off the ground. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Dhoni finally ended the controversy by accepting Ganga&#8217;s version <\/strong>and was pronounced out caught Ganga bowled Mohammad for 69 runs that came off just 52 balls and included <strong>six sixes and four fours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trivia<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>MS Dhoni is the only batsman in the history of ODI cricket, amongst the batsmen with a minimum of 1000 runs, to have maintained an <strong>average of 50 (52.76) <\/strong>as well as maintained a <strong>strike rate of 100 (103.00)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India declared their second innings on 521 for six after a controversy surrounding M S Dhoni&#8217;s dismissal. Dhoni, who played like a man possessed, smashed three consecutive sixes off Dave Mohammad. He then smashed a fourth, but was caught by Daren Ganga on the ropes.It was unclear to both the field umpires and third umpire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4,8],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fun","tag-india","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}