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Chennai Super Kings’ MS Dhoni and Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav in action during IPL 2025. (Sportzpics for IPL)
IPL 2025: What makes MS Dhoni a true original with the gloves, as he showed with the Suryakumar Yadav stumping
There are two true originals in the game of cricket these days: Steve Smith and MS Dhoni. No one else can bat like Smith, no one else can bat and keep wickets like Dhoni.
Dhoni doesn’t flick; he drags. He doesn’t drive; he shoves. He doesn’t cut; he chops. He doesn’t lean forward; he lunges. He doesn’t defend; he stabs. He doesn’t uppercut; he carves.
But all that to an extent is still apeable, but no one has come close to copying his wicketkeeping skill, in particular his way to stump batsmen. He doesn’t collect the ball; he snatches it. He doesn’t ‘give’, that cushioning that wicketkeepers tend to deploy; he pounces on the ball even as he moves his hands forward towards the stumps. It’s a remarkable visual. So much so that in real-time view, it’s a magnificent blur. It used to be said of Gary Sobers’s reflexes in close-in positions that he used to catch blurs; Dhoni’s gathering of the ball itself a blur. In the words of former fielding coach of India R Sridhar: “It often looks like Dhoni can stop time while executing a stumping”. (READ MORE)