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Originally Posted by Rachael No. He sounds like a thug. I've no evidence that he can build a classy innings through delicate, low risk shots of real quality: it's early days but I fear he's likely to remain a one dimensional slogger who will never, in his entire career, play a shot worthy of endless replays. |
I beg to differ from this opinion. He may look like a thug, but in today's cricket, what matters more is not how you score runs but whether you are able to score runs. A hundred, which includes risky, unorthodox shots influences (is more helpful in) a game much more than a 30 or a 40 made out of delicate,low risk shots of real quality. If Dhoni is able to make big scores with those high risk shots, then I think they can't be called as high-risk shots, because such high-risk shots won't pay off every time.
Regarding his shots, some of them are so-unorthodox that they can be seen over and over again in TV replays.
And, please stop branding him a slogger. He isn't one. Call it "clean-hitting".