When MS Dhoni is playing a match, there is too much possibility that he will use his mind games to bring the match in his team’s favour. Dhoni’s mind games to bag wickets is a well-known things to watch, and yesterday was one such match when Dhoni played a funny mind game to try and run out Hardik Pandya.
During yesterday’s match against Mumbai Indians, MS Dhoni tried to bluff Hardik Pandya in the 18th over. Hardik is a dangerous batsman in the death overs, and MS very well knows it. During Shardul Thakur’s bowling, Hardik took a single. Fielder Imran Tahir collected it at deep cover and threw the ball back to wicketkeeper MS.
But instead of collecting the ball, Dhoni threw the ball to bluff for an overthrow. Watching this, Pollard called out for a run to Hardik and even Hardik started running for a second. Seeing his idea work, Dhoni ran to collect the ball and tried to run-out Hardik at non-striker’s end, but could not hit the stumps. Have a look at the video below.
If You think this was an incident , then you are wrong , this was a Trick by Dhoni to Out Pandya .!
💙 Bcoz Dhoni knew it ” कौन डूबाएगा CSK का नईया , Hardik Bhaiya ! Hardik Bhaiya !! 😂😂 #IPL2019 #MIvCSK @hardikpandya7 pic.twitter.com/wdy1w8lo9N— Broken.ButBeautifull (@BButbeautifull) April 4, 2019
After Hardik saved himself from run-out, he got an idea of MS Dhoni’s bluffing and started smiling. Even Dhoni was smiling after his funny attempt to bluff both the batsman succeeded. After the incident, Hardik smashed 19 runs off the 20th over of Dwayne Bravo to take Mumbai Indians to 170/5. CSK failed to reach the target and were 133/9 after end of 20 overs.