Dhoni’s batting on Friday against West Indies has drawn a lot of criticism. Minimizing risk doesn’t mean you shouldn’t rotate strike! Watching him struggling to get singles was tough.
He seems to be struggling to find the right batting position for himself. He seems to be randomly coming in at either 3 or 5. As I said earlier, instead of a fixed position, his batting strategy along with Gambhir should be to take less risk than the others, holding one end up at least until the 15th over allowing the other batsmen to be aggressive at the other end. This means, Dhoni’s batting position is not fixed. He walks in when Gambhir gets out. If Gambhir bats through an innings he doesn’t get to bat (unless the other specialist batsmen are all back in the hut).
Strategically, yesterday’s batting order was perfect (Dhoni came in at the fall of Gambhir’s wicket), but the execution wasn’t.
When he moved up his batting order to number 3 he adopted a batting style thats causing major problem in the rest of the matches. I would say with his limited batting technique and powerfull hitting he can down the order 6 or 7 like before to regain his old form.
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