Its good and normal and consistent batting style

Indian cricket has produced quite a few swashbuckling batsmen, and cricketers from Mushtaq Ali in the thirties to Virender Sehwag in the new millennium have done more than their bit to prove that when it comes to entertaining the crowds Indians are second to none. But even given this history, the batting style of Mahendra Singh Dhoni is absolutely unique.

It is not just about hitting fours and sixes, the eagerness to go for the big shots and his unorthodox methods of lambasting the bowlers. Dhoni is so prodigiously gifted that he is able to get away with the most enthralling of shots that at once has the spectators leaping with joy and leaving bowlers tearing away at their hair.

Dhoni revels in playing the most outrageous of strokes - most notably when he sends the ball high to long on with a flick of his wrist. He plays the paddle sweep with impunity, dispatches balls pitched outside the off stump to the mid wicket boundary and makes nonsense of field placings, cricketing theori ...more