A chance for both captains
MS Dhoni may not have done much with the bat in the tournament, and he may have received criticism for some of his decisions, but if India win against Sri Lanka in Mumbai, this will be remembered as Dhoni's World cup, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan writes
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
MS Dhoni may not have done much with the bat in the tournament, and he may have received criticism for some of his decisions, but if India win against Sri Lanka in Mumbai, this will be remembered as Dhoni's World cup, Siddhartha Vaidyanathan writes on his blog.
Dhoni has a great chance to become the first captain to lift a World Cup at home but there’s another, slightly more quirky, statistic which many may not be aware of: Dhoni may become the first World Cup winning captain to go through a whole campaign without a single half-century. But it won’t matter. One of the most forgotten stats from 1987 is that Border made 183 runs in 8 World Cup games, with just one fifty, at an average of 22.87. His only half-century was against Zimbabwe.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo