{"id":130521,"date":"2018-02-19T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=130521"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:15:10","slug":"kohli-needs-dhoni-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kohli-needs-dhoni-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli needs Dhoni to finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag feels Virat Kohli not promoting Mahendra Singh Dhoni up the batting order has to do with the captain’s fear of not having a proven finisher in the team.<\/p>\n

According to Sehwag, the Men in Blue need to rectify problems in their batting order despite a thumping 5-1 series win over South Africa. One of the solutions, Sehwag feels, is promoting Dhoni to number four in the order.<\/p>\n

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The former India opener is of the opinion that Kohli should hand the finisher’s role to the likes of Hardik Pandya, Kedar Jadhav or Manish Pandey. “I believe, there’s still a scope of improvement in India’s middle-order batting line-up.<\/p>\n

MS Dhoni should play up the order. I think, Kohli fears that if Dhoni comes at No 4 and loses his wicket early then there won’t be anyone on the finishing spot. But Kohli should send him up the order and hand the finisher’s role to Manish Pandey or Hardik Pandya or Kedar Jadhav,” Viru told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag feels Virat Kohli not promoting Mahendra Singh Dhoni up the batting order has to do with the captain’s fear of not having a proven finisher in the team. According to Sehwag, the Men in Blue need to rectify problems in their batting order despite a thumping 5-1 series win over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[66706,4937,66705,6127,6335,9359,1688],"class_list":["post-130521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-former-india-cricketer-virender-sehwag","tag-kohli","tag-kohli-needs-dhoni-to-finish","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-sehwag","tag-south-africa","tag-virat-kohli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/e2-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130521","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=130521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}