Dhoni era started today in Indian cricket, Pakistan became a victim.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni won his first match as captain on 14 September 2007.
In the T20 World Cup, India defeated Pakistan in a bowl-out when the match was tied.

New Delhi. How tall is Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Indian cricket? This doesn’t need much explanation. It would not be wrong to call Dhoni the most successful captain of Indian cricket. Under Dhoni’s leadership, India has also won the T20, ODI World Cup and Champions Trophy titles. Team India has also become number 1 in Tests. It has been three years since Dhoni retired but he is still in the news.

From the point of view of Dhoni’s cricket career, today’s date i.e. 14th September is very important. On this day in 2007, Dhoni started the captaincy. The tournament was the T20 World Cup and the opponent was Pakistan. India then won the tie against Pakistan in a bowl-out and 10 days later defeated Pakistan in the final to become the T20 World Champions in the first year.

Let us tell you that after senior players refused to participate in the T20 World Cup in 2007, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was made the captain of Team India and under his leadership India became the champion in the first edition of the T20 World Cup. Team India’s first match in this tournament was against Scotland which was inconclusive due to rain. This was followed by a clash with Pakistan and in this match Dhoni made his debut as captain.

The T20 World Match between India and Pakistan on September 14, 2007 was breathtaking. India won this match in a bowl out after a tie. In this match, Pakistan won the toss and chose to bowl. The Indian team, who came to bat first at the Durban ground, could score only 141 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Apart from Robin Uthappa (50) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (33), no batsman played in this match.

Misbah was run out on the last ball
This target was not big for Pakistan. Pakistan needed 12 runs from 6 balls in the last over. Misbah ul Haq and Yasir Arafat were at the crease. Before this over, Misbah had scored 43 runs off 30 balls and Pakistan’s score was 130 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. That is, all the winning equations seemed to be in favor of Pakistan. S Sreesanth came in to bowl the 20th over for India and Misbah hit 2 fours in the first 4 balls to bring Pakistan closer to victory.

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India-Pakistan match was tied
Pakistan needed 1 run off the last 2 balls. Sreesanth threw a dot on the fifth ball. Now 1 run was needed off the last ball. Misbah started to run for runs after playing a shot towards cover but Yuvraj showed speed and caught the ball and threw it straight to Sreesanth at the non-striker’s end. By the time Misbah got inside the crease, Sreesanth had scattered Bale. In this way, Pakistan could score only 141 runs and the match was tied.

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India won the ball out
Then according to the rules of the tournament, the match was decided by a ball out like a shoot out in football. From India, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa and Harbhajan Singh hit the stumps accurately but every attack by Pakistan went in vain. Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi failed to hit the stumps and India won 3-0 in a bowl out.

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Tags: ICC T20 World Cup, India Vs Pakistan, MS Dhoni, On this day

First published: September 14, 2023, 11:19 IST

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