Virendra Sehwag comments on MS Dhoni's batting position; says 'Wherever he bat...'

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ALSO READ: MS Dhoni impressed with portrait made by fan; Thala's reaction goes viral Gill scored scored 104 runs off 55 balls and Sai Sudharsan hit 103 off 51 balls. Their partnership even matched the IPL record for the first wicket set by KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock for Lucknow Super Giants against Kolkata Knight Riders in 2022. While chasing 232, CSK batters could not sustain the GT bowling attack and were down 10 for 3.

However, Daryl Mitchell (63) and Moeen Ali (56) managed to stabilise the innings for sometime. Then again the wickets started to fall and Mahendra Singh Dhoni entered into the picture to bat at number 8. Though Dhoni scored 26 runs in just 11 balls, with 3 sixes and one boundary, CSK failed to reach the target.

Among the questions raised after the match was why did Dhoni come to bat at number 8. In the previous match against Punjab Kings, Dhoni batted at number 9, which still confuses his fans and critics. Former Indian opener Virendra Sehwag expresses that the debate surrounding his number should end.

ALSO READ: ‘MS Dhoni shouldn’t play if…’: Harbhajan Singh drops bomb after CSK vs PBKS IPL 2024 match “We should end the debate around MS Dhoni's batting position. He knows what he wants to do. It's his wish.

But if you want to win the match, the form he is in, and the strike rate that he's batting at... the other batters need to play at a similar level. It felt today that Mitchell and Ali couldn't match Sudharsan and Gill.

Someone has to score a 100. Or Jadeja and Dube had to score a 20-ball fifty to get close to the target," Hindustan Times quoted Sehwag as saying. “I don't want to get into the debate.