{"id":130200,"date":"2018-02-17T08:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T03:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=130200"},"modified":"2018-02-17T08:52:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T03:22:13","slug":"ms-must-bat-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/ms-must-bat-order\/","title":{"rendered":"MS must bat up the order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahi Dhonis current form and his performance in the death overs is making think twice about his performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known as the best finisher in the limited-overs format, Dhoni faced 85 balls and scored just 69 runs in the first 5 days against SA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He batted at number six and seven in the series. Coming out in Dhoni&#8217;s support, Suresh Raina, who has been included in India squad for the T20Is against South Africa, said the former India skipper should bat up the order. &#8220;I feel Dhoni can do better up the order. He can hit better and get more time,&#8221; Raina told Sports Tak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Suresh-Raina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130203\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Suresh-Raina.jpg\" alt=\"ICC World Twenty20 India 2016: Team Swachh Clinic - India\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhoni has batted at No. 2, 3 and 4 on 45 occasions and scored 2321 runs at an average of 64.47.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has scored three centuries and 18 half-centuries while batting at these positions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahi has batted at No. 5 on 68 occasions, scoring 2718 runs at an average of 53.29. He has 4 centuries and 15 fifties to his name while batting at No. 5.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MS is the kind of player who if he plays up the order will always keep the team in a strong position,&#8221; Raina said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahi Dhonis current form and his performance in the death overs is making think twice about his performance. Known as the best finisher in the limited-overs format, Dhoni faced 85 balls and scored just 69 runs in the first 5 days against SA. He batted at number six and seven in the series. Coming out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[66551,66552,5904,48763,66550,39147,66553],"class_list":["post-130200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-current-form","tag-death-overs","tag-dhoni","tag-mahi-dhoni","tag-ms-must-bat-up-the-order","tag-raina","tag-sa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/622765-605654-dhoni-retuers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}