06 April,2017 06:04 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Rising Pune Supergiant's MS Dhoni and commentator Kevin Pietersen take potshots at each other suring the RPS vs Mi match in IPL 2017 on Thursday night. Here's what they said...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kevin Pietersen
Rising Pune Supergiants cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni stretches during the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Rising Pune Supergiants and Mumbai Indians at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on April 6, 2017. Pic/AFP
Pune: Friendly banters have always been a part and parcel of cricket and this time it was two former Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) teammates -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni and England's Kevin Pietersen -- taking shots at each other in the 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Mumbai Indians in Pune on Thursday.
Dhoni is usually a picture of concentration on the field but there was a departure on Thursday night when he decided to have a "go" at his former IPL teammate.
But the former India captain was in a mood to have some fun with Pietersen, who was on air during the IPL match between Rising Pune Supergiant and Mumbai Indians.
It was Manoj Tiwary at first slip, who was on microphone chatting with Pietersen when the former England captain said: "Manoj just tell MS that I am a better golfer than him."
Kevin Pietersen
Manoj was seen duly conveying the message to Dhoni after a delivery. "Pietersen kah raha hain woh aapse accha golfer hain (he is saying he is a better golfer than you)."
Dhoni leaned towards the microphone connected with Manoj and replied with a straight face: "But you are still my only Test wicket!" Pietersen was seen laughing.
For the record, it was in reference to a few overs that Dhoni was forced to bowl his medium pacers during a Test match against England at Lord's back in 2011 after Zaheer Khan hobbled out with a torn hamstring. Dhoni had Pietersen caught behind by then wicketkeeper Rahul Dravid and was given out by Billy Bowden.
Dhoni, however, seems to have forgotten the decision was overruled after a referral saw that the batsman hadn't edged it.
Pietersen went onto score a double hundred as England won the Test match.
Dhoni never bowled in Tests again. He has a wicket in One dayers though -- Travis Dowlin of West Indies.
