World Cup 2019: MS Dhoni's century in practice match, know why special it is for Team India
India, who lost to New Zealand by six wickets in the first warm-up match, registered a morale-boosting win before the match against South Africa on June 5. In the match, three top-order batsmen Shikhar Dhawan (one), Rohit Sharma (19) and captain Virat Kohli (47) were unsuccessful in the second match. But in this match, Rahul Dravid made a century with Dhoni, which gave the team plenty of relief. (Photo: Reuters)
Rahul has almost ended his problem of fourth number. Rahul scored 108 runs off 99 balls with the help of 12 fours and four sixes and strengthened his claim to number four. Rahul had been failing in the ODIs for some time now. Earlier, he had scored only 60 runs against Australia in Mohali. In last year, he had scored 9 and zero runs in two ODIs against England. (Photo: ANI)
Who would be India's number four batsman in the World Cup, this team had been the subject of discussion since the selection. By taking Rahul off the batting at number four in both the practice matches, Kohli gave a clear indication that who is their first choice for this important place. Rahul also did not disappoint his captain and bathed in a natural way and presented a fine specimen of his pull, cut and cover drive. For the number four, the selectors' first choice, Vijay Shankar, came for batting at number five but only got two runs. (Photo: ANI)
One time Team India had lost four wickets for 102 runs. But after that, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni took the side and the two shared a 164-run partnership for the fifth wicket, helping India to reach a strong score of 359 runs on seven wickets after dismissing the dangerous 102 for four wickets. . Rahul was out in the last over while Dhoni was out in the last over. (Photo: PTI)
The best news in this match was to come back to Dhoni's form. Dhoni played 113 off 78 balls including eight fours and seven sixes. Apart from this Dhoni retained till the last over. Dhoni came to bat in the 22nd over and he made his intentions in the next over by scoring his second ball. However, due to the quick runs of KL, Dhoni took his full time and hit six on his 23rd position. (Photo: IANS)
After the 35th over, Dhoni changed his gear and got his fifty done from his first round. After Rahul's dismissal, Dhoni batted hard and the team's score was more than 300, before the dismissal in the last over before the team reached 350. They were bowled on the bowling of Shakib Al Hasan and on the second ball of the last over at 348. (Photo: Reuters)
Dhoni specifically targeted spinners. He went ahead and shot several scenes and in the meanwhile influenced his power hitting. He completed his hundred in only 73 balls by hitting his sixth six in Abu Zayed. After this innings, there is a possibility of Dhoni going to number five in the World Cup. Dhoni has quieted his critics from this innings and also gave the fiance the confidence that the team is a strong contender for the title. (Photo: ANI)
In the middle, Hardik Pandya scored 21 runs off 11 balls while Ravindra Jadeja remained unbeaten on 11 and Karthik with seven runs. Vijay Shankar could not take advantage of practice matches at the same time. Vijay Shankar could only make 2 runs. After this, the Indian bowlers, especially the spinners, did not make the runs of Bangladesh batsmen speeding, so that the whole team of Bangladesh came under pressure and scored 264 runs. For India, Kuldeep Yadav and Yuswendra Chahal took 3-3 wickets while Bumrah took two wickets and Jadeja took one wicket. (Photo: Reuters)
