“Mahiya maar raha hai!” But it’s not the ball he’s hitting, it’s the stumps.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has once again given everyone a reason to obsess over him and his wicket-keeping skills. In India’s fourth ODI against New Zealand on Wednesday, Dhoni got Ross Taylor run-out with even looking at the stumps.
Collecting the ball from Dhawal Kulkarni who was standing at fine-leg, ‘captain cool’, without turning around, hit the stumps. I’m sorry, words are not doing any justice to this fancy dismissal. Please watch the video below. On loop.
God Behind Stumps & Peshwa Dhonirao
And it was to be expected that Twitter will not keep calm. Twitterati seem to be getting more creative with each passing day and this is how they reacted:
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