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God has given me special powers: MS Dhoni

God has given me special powers: MS Dhoni

NEW DELHI – God has given me the power. I don’t need to use the back a lot,the hands can do the job,” said the CSK skipper MS Dhoni.

CSK fell short of just a boundary-hit in their four-run defeat against KXIPin the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Sunday in Mohali, when Chennaiskipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni – struggling with a back injury – hit 79 runsoff 44 balls and almost pulled off a miraculous win before fallingagonisingly short of the 198-run target.

It was for the third match in a row that Chennai pulled off a heist but itdidn’t happen like their victories in the first two matches of the season.Dwayne Bravo and Sam Billings were the heroes of those wins but Dhoni’sknock couldn’t bring the same result. However, the narrow defeat alsoraised a few questions around Ravindra Jadeja batting ahead of the in-formBravo.

But Dhoni has complete trust in the spin-bowling allrounder’s ability tohit big and wants to try him in that role of a finisher.

“It’s a difficult one. Fleming is in the dugout, so he needs to take thatdecision, and we have confidence in Jadeja also; one of the reasons is thatit’s not easy to consistently bowl to a left-hander and also this is thetime that we can give him that opportunity to express himself,” Dhoni wasquoted as saying by *ESPNcricinfo*.

“If he doesn’t do (the job), Bravo is an experienced one. He can always goback and do the job for us. But overall, Jadeja is somebody who can do itfor us and that’ll be really good.

“So far we have never really given him (Jadeja) the kind of opportunitythat he really deserves, so I will definitely back him to come good in thecoming games.”

Dhoni’s injured back also made a lot of news in the last-over humdinger onSunday, during which he also received medical treatment on the field.