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MS Dhoni is not at fault, we are

MS Dhoni is not at fault, we are Aditya Joshi19 Jul 2018, 06:01 PM   ​ December 30, 2012. The left-arm seam bowling duo of the incisive Junaid Khan and the imposing freak that is Mohammad Irfan, run through the Indian top-order. All of a sudden Chepauk turns into Centurion, as the hosts are befuddled by the nip off the pitch and the parabolas in the trajectory of the deliveries under the grey skies. Three batsmen suffer the ignominy of having to hear the ominous sound of the stumps' rattling, as the scorecard reads 5/29 in 9.4 overs. Out walks MS Dhoni, a calm demeanor on his face almost antithetical to Rohit Sharma's look of disbelief and complete lack of belonging as he walked back. Except that the calm will not precede a storm; it will remain steady throughout, and with the passage of time inch closer and closer to nirvana. The keyboard warriors, a generation of impatient kids with their attention spans reduced to Curtly Ambrose's batting average, or the bowling...