{"id":56645,"date":"2019-03-08T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56645"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T10:59:14","slug":"ms-dhonis-2019-form-could-help-him-end-ranchi-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ms-dhonis-2019-form-could-help-him-end-ranchi-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni\u2019s 2019 form could help him end Ranchi drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wicket-keeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni will look end his poor record at his home ground when India take on Australia in the third ODI of the five-match series at the JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Men in Blue\u2019 will look to take an unassailable lead in the series after recording victories in the first two ODIs at Vizag and Nagpur respectively. Dhoni who played an important role in India\u2019s win in first ODI will look to improve his numbers at this venue. The right-hander aggregates just 30 runs in three innings across formats while he averages 21 in ODIs with a poor strike rate of 48.83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, these are the stats before the time Dhoni hit a purple patch in the 50-over format. In the current calendar year, Dhoni\u2019s batting average exceeds 100 and he is only behind South Africa skipper Faf Du Plessis and Windies hard-hitter Chris Gayle in this particular list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, another milestone awaits Dhoni in the third ODI as he remains just 33 runs away from completing 17,000 runs across formats Tests: 4876; ODIs: 10474; T20Is: 1617.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhoni will become only the sixth India cricketer to achieve this feat after Sachin Tendulkar (34,357), Rahul Dravid (24,208), Virat Kohli (19,453), Sourav Ganguly (18,575) &amp; Virender Sehwag (17,253).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wicket-keeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni will look end his poor record at his home ground when India take on Australia in the third ODI of the five-match series at the JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi on Friday. The \u2018Men in Blue\u2019 will look to take an unassailable lead in the series after recording victories in the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56647,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56645\/revisions\/56647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}