I don't know what message was sent out to MS Dhoni: Yuzvendra Chahal

The second ODI between England and India witnessed one o the greatest finishers of all time being booed by Lord’s crowd. His dour knock with the bat when the required run-rate was creeping up with every dot delivery left many puzzled and the frustrated crowd was left nothing to do in the end. However, before the 47th over, a message was sent out from the dressing room and MS Dhoni got out the very next ball trying to send the ball into the crowd.

When the veteran came in to bat after 27 overs when Virat Kohli had just lost his wicket to Moeen Ali and India needed him to play a whirlwind knock. Instead, he just dropped anchor in a dull chase which went nowhere in the second half of the innings. The pitch became very slow even as Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali tied the batsmen down with their wily lengths.

But it was baffling to see that there was no intent shown by Dhoni during his painful stay of 59 balls in the middle. Even after Hardik Pandya got out trying to up the ante, he continued playing the same way as one felt there was no point in wasting the time in watching the lost battle.

Chahal’s comment

However, following the grim proceedings and the crowd booing MS Dhoni, the skipper Virat Kohli sitting in the balcony of the Home of Cricket sent out a message to the batsmen in the middle to try and play the shots. The cameraman captured the moments of the incident and most expectedly, the question popped up in the press conference after the game.

Yuzvendra Chahal, however, cleared that he didn’t know anything about the message sent to the batsmen as he was not batting in the middle. “I don’t know what message the coaches had sent out to Dhoni because I wasn’t there in the middle at that time,” he was quoted as saying by Wisden India.

Eventually, after Dhoni’s wicket, the tail didn’t wag much and India were bundled out for 236 runs in 50 overs. The third and final game of the series will be played at Headingley and the fans might be in for a humdinger.

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