{"id":1147,"date":"2020-08-10T15:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=31121"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:27:41","slug":"muttiah-muralitharan-lauds-ms-dhonis-leadership-as-csk-captain-during-chat-with-ravichandran-ashwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/muttiah-muralitharan-lauds-ms-dhonis-leadership-as-csk-captain-during-chat-with-ravichandran-ashwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Muttiah Muralitharan lauds MS Dhoni\u2019s leadership as CSK captain during chat with Ravichandran Ashwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan lauded India-wicketkeeper batsman MS Dhoni for his captaincy skills. Murali said the best part about Dhoni\u2019s captaincy was that he trusted the bowler and gave him the freedom to set his own field. \u201cDefinitely he was a young captain, I would say. It was in the 2007 World Cup that he captained and won. But his theories are very nice to see. Because he will give the ball to the bowler and tell him to set the field and bowl. If it wasn\u2019t working, then he would ask them to give a chance to the field he sets,\u201d Murali told India off-spinner R Ashwin on his Youtube chat show DRS with Ash.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murali talks about Dhoni, Arjuna, IPL, CSK, SRH | DRS with Ash | Muttiah Muralitharan | Episode 9\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VZIel5iC00k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Murali, as he was popularly called by his fans, lauded Dhoni for his encouragement skills. As a captain, not only did MS Dhoni try and help his bowlers, but also motivated them when a ball went for a six by clapping as long as he felt it was a good ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Dhoni) will clap if a good ball gets hit for a six. He\u2019ll tell the bowler that it\u2019s a good ball, and it doesn\u2019t matter if the batsman has hit you for a six. Batsmen too have the talent to hit,\u201d said Murali.<\/p>\n<p>Murali took 40 wickets during his three year sting at Chennai Super Kings. During his chat with Ashwin, he added that Dhoni took a personal interest in every single bowler. MS Dhoni would personally take a bowler to a corner and discuss the plan on how to approach the upcoming over rather than doing it publicly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo with that kind of appreciations, he\u2019ll call you alone, to tell you what\u2019s needed instead of doing it in pubic because of those qualities, he has been so successful,\u201d added Murali.<\/p>\n<p>Further explaining Dhoni\u2019s qualities as a leader, Murali, who has more than 1300 international wickets \u2013 the most \u2013 to his name, said Dhoni always listened to the advice of seniors even at a young age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has the ability to think calmly, it\u2019s because of these plus points that he became such a good leader. Even when he was young, he\u2019d listen to advice (from seniors). He\u2019ll listen to people and then he\u2019ll make the decision at the end of the day. That\u2019s how he used to captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut more than that, he wouldn\u2019t care about how players bat in the IPL. But he wants the players who can win the match for you. That\u2019s how he went about his business\u201d, Murali added.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoni is all set to lead his team, Chennai Super Kings in the 2020 edition of the IPL. After a hiatus spanning over 6 months due to the Coronavirus pandemic, IPL is finally ready to make a return. Albeit in a world of new normals, the mega cash rich league is ready to make a comeback, prepared to entertain fans all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murali, who has played under Dhoni\u2019s leadership in IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK), said Dhoni would sometimes clap for the bowler when a good ball was hit for a six.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ms-dhoni"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}