Patel wasn’t expecting a marauding Dhoni to miss Umesh Yadav’s slower delivery before his direct throw sealed it for the home team on Sunday night. “We honestly wanted him (Dhoni) to hit through the off-side on the shorter side of the ground. ALSO READ: ‘Dhoni as my PM’ - Twitter erupts after MS Dhoni strikes Bangalore, almost pulls of heist“So we wanted (Umesh) to bowl slower and outside the off-stump and surprisingly he missed it. Patel said if Dhoni is around then 70 to 80 runs in the last five overs is always gettable at the Chinnaswamy. He wanted the game to go down to last three-four overs and he almost won the game,” said Patel.

Source: Hindustan Times April 22, 2019 06:00 UTC