[WATCH] 'MS Dhoni sees...'- GT star analyzes former India captain's leadership knowledge
Watch GT star analyzes the former Indian captain MS Dhoni's leadership knowledge.

Leadership in the shortest format is a scratchy job, and MS Dhoni, the former Indian captain, who earned the T20 World Cup 2007, was known for such instincts in the field, which could change the flow of the game instantly. One of the best aspects of his captaincy was the changes he used to make in the bowling attack and get wickets immediately.
The current Gujarat Titans opener and the former England captain, Jos Buttler, recently expressed that matchups were not part of the game in the past. He reckoned that Dhoni used to do the matchups back in the days, like he would bowl an off-spinner against the left-handed batter.
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‘Sometimes, in a sort of modern cricket, it gets a bit misconstrued that people talk about matchups. Be the word that everyone says on commentary, ‘oh, these are the matchups. It’s the modern thing.’ But back in the day, people just called that cricket knowledge. You know, I like Dhoni was doing matchups a while ago, back in the day, before it became. It’s like let’s just bowl an off-spinner at the left-hander.’ Buttler explained during a recent podcast with former pacer Stuart Broad.
Watch: GT star highlights MS Dhoni’s knowledge on leadership
Buttler, who has experience of 458 games in the T20s for 13055 runs at an average of 35.66 and a strike rate of 145.93, thanks to eight centuries and 93 half-centuries, explained how data would never be the combination of numbers only, but a mixture of experience and other staff.
'MS Dhoni sees things before it's happened. He is fountain of Knowledge' - Jos Buttler while talking about Match Ups in Cricket !! pic.twitter.com/0gwqN7kR3I
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‘It’s not like match-ups. Back in the day, it might have worked. Date isn’t just numbers. Data can be experiences; it can be quantified in loads of different ways. People talk about Dhoni’s captaincy, and it’s like he sees things before they happen. He is the fountain of knowledge and data. There is a collaboration and some kind of conviction, and that’s where teams work very well.’ Buttler shed light.
The thing is very simple. For any captain, it’s about deciding on their own in the field. Matchups will stay there, but having the gut feeling of how the game is panning out on that very day and tweaking the plans around that would put him in the front seat. There could be mistakes, but there are lessons to learn.
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