Mahendra Singh Dhoni's powerful forearms has won many matches for India and no wonder the former India captain has confidence to clear the boundary even when he is suffering from excruciating back pain.
For lofted shots, a batsman needs to maintain shape while transfering body weight into the shot. However against Kings XI Punjab on Sunday, the Chennai Super Kings captain was in real pain but kept clearing the ropes with consummate ease.
Dhoni's unbeaten 79 off 44 balls got CSK extremely close to the target before the visitors fell short by four runs.
When asked how he could hit those lofted shots with a painful back, Dhoni replied:
The back is pretty bad but God has given me lot of power and I don’t need to use my back a lot. My arms can do the job. It shouldn’t be too bad because I know what happened. And when you know the extent of your injury, you know how bad it really is.MS Dhoni.
Kings XI Punjab survived Mahendra Singh Dhoni's onslaught to beat Chennai Super Kings by four runs.
After being put into bat, Chris Gayle made a resounding debut for Punjab by smashing 63 off 33 balls, including seven fours and four sixes in Punjab's total of 197-7.
(With inputs from PTI and AP)
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