Former Australia captain Allan Border was all praise for MS Dhoni after the Ranchi-born veteran played a key role in India’s historic One-Day International series win in Australia. With scores of 51, 55* and 87*, Dhoni took home the Man of the Series award.
“I thought the one-day series was quite close. Evenly balanced… most of the games. Old MS Dhoni is back with a vengeance. Isn’t he? He played very well in all the games, particularly the last couple where he got India over the line again,” Border told ANI.
“Congratulations to India on series victory. They have deserved those series victories. No doubt they have been the better side. We had our issues over the last 12 months with few of the better players not being available but still India played tremendously well,” he said.
“We expect them to do well in Twenty20 because of the IPL factor. They are a very good T20 side, they are the No.1 Test side in the world. So, it was not unexpected to see India play so well, particularly, what’s interesting is they won with fast bowling as against the traditional way for them winning through spinners. That was an interesting change the way things normally turn out between Australia and India” he added.
