Having seen a young Mahendra Singh Dhoni from close quarters even before he went on to play for India A, former Zimbabwe cricket captain T...
Having seen a young Mahendra Singh Dhoni from close quarters even before he went on to play for India A, former Zimbabwe cricket captain Tatenda Taibu said that the Indian cricketer’s mental toughness separated him from his contemporaries.
Taibu was the wicketkeeper-captain of the Zimbabwe Select XI side when Sairaj Bahutule-led India A side came visiting in 2004. That squad had both Dinesh Karthik and MS Dhoni, with the latter donning the gloves.
“The first time I saw Dhoni, if I’m to be honest — he had come with the India A side — I thought Karthik was more natural than Dhoni. And still in keeping, Karthik is more natural... even in batting he is more natural,” Taibu said in an interview on Youtube titled Inside Out with Baggs.
Taibu then went on to explain Dhoni’s odd yet impactful technique.
“Now, the way he (Dhoni) keeps, his hands are not always together like you always have the little fingers together... when he catches his hands are always not like that. But he always manages to catch the ball and whip the bails in a flash with a very different technique... a very different and odd technique,” Taibu added.
While Dhoni did not do anything special with the bat in Zimbabwe, in the subsequent...
