Chennai Tremendous Kings’ MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav in motion throughout IPL 2025. (Sportzpics for IPL)
IPL 2025: What makes MS Dhoni a real unique with the gloves, as he confirmed with the Suryakumar Yadav stumping
There are two true originals within the sport of cricket today: Steve Smith and MS Dhoni. Nobody else can bat like Smith, nobody else can bat and preserve wickets like Dhoni.
Dhoni doesn’t flick; he drags. He doesn’t drive; he shoves. He doesn’t minimize; he chops. He doesn’t lean ahead; he lunges. He doesn’t defend; he stabs. He doesn’t uppercut; he carves.
However all that to an extent remains to be apeable, however nobody has come near copying his wicketkeeping ability, particularly his option to stump batsmen. He doesn’t gather the ball; he snatches it. He doesn’t ‘give’, that cushioning that wicketkeepers are likely to deploy; he pounces on the ball at the same time as he strikes his palms ahead in direction of the stumps. It’s a exceptional visible. A lot in order that in real-time view, it’s a powerful blur. It was once stated of Gary Sobers’s reflexes in close-in positions that he used to catch blurs; Dhoni’s gathering of the ball itself a blur. Within the phrases of former fielding coach of India R Sridhar: “It typically appears like Dhoni can cease time whereas executing a stumping”. (READ MORE)