Antigua: Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a winning knock innings of 78 runs off 79 balls in the third ODI against West Indies and said that he's like old wine ,which only gets better with time.
MS Dhoni reached his fifty off 108 balls with just one boundary and the strike rate of 46.30. This was the second slowest fifty overall by an Indian in ODI history.
However, this was not the case during the fourth ODI which India lost by 11 runs while chasing a modest 190.
Dhoni, who came rather early on the crease, though scored 54 runs but took 114 balls to do that – slowest in 16 years by an Indian and the second slowest overall by any Indian.
Only Sadagoppan Ramesh has scored a fifty slower than Dhoni for India, taking 117 balls for against Kenya in 1999 while former India captain Sourav Ganguly is third on the list for his 105-ball fifty against Sri Lanka in 2005.
Dhoni, who has many records to his name, is known to keep calm in the end and finish the game off in style with six – as he has done it nine times in his career, but Sunday wasn’t his day.
After West Indies were stopped at 189 in their 50 overs everyone was assured of an Indian victory.
Jason Holder, however, had other plans as Dhoni and India suddenly found themselves chasing 16 runs in last two overs. Known for his cool head, MSD got out on the last ball of the 49th over with Indian requiring 14 off six.
Holder then finished off the things with two remaining wickets in his last over and completing his five-for.
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