MS Dhoni advocates for aggressive, result-driven Test cricket

Legendary Indian cricketer and World Cupwinning skipper MS Dhoni expressed his admiration for a more attacking brand of Test cricket being played recently because of the teams mindset of not settling for drawsDhoni was speaking at an event in Goa Speaking at the event Dhoni said as quoted by ESPNCricinfo that cricket has evolved a lot over the yearsYou can give cricket any term that you want to what we have seen is cricket has evolved The way people are playing cricket is very different There was a time when in ODIs something was considered a safe score now that score is not safe in T20s too said DhoniYou give something a term it becomes much more interesting because you start talking about it you start relating to it but at the end of the day what is it Its a way to play cricket Some people want to play aggressive cricket some people want to play authentic cricket A lot of that depends on the kind of team you have got whether they can change the way they play that cricket What is important is to realise the strength of your team and according to the strength of the team you decide which is the way you want to play cricket but it takes time It does not happen that overnight you say let us start playing like this tomorrow You need to give time to individuals because they have played maybe 101215 years of cricket and they have a certain way of playing cricket so you need to give them that time to change he addedAlso Read MS Dhoni Team India play PUBG at Mumbai airportDhoni recalled that he faced some difficult days during his playing days when the draw result was certain on the final day of a Test match and he still needed to keep wickets and go through the motionsFor me the most difficult time during a Test match was the fifth day of a match which is the last day when you knew that 10 per cent it is going to be a draw I would still need to keep for nearly 25 sessions and that was the most tiring part You see there is no result happening you are just going through the motions Yes bowlers would like to take wickets batters will try to score runs but there is no result in the game You think lets finish this and go why do I have to be here So I love the fact there is change in the way teams are playing Test cricket he saidAlso Read A look at accomplishments of the man who modernize Indian cricket with his sharp mindThe legendary cricketer expressed that draws are not good for the game and it is great how Tests have become more resultorientedImagine telling someone who does not know much cricket we play over five days and we start at 930 and 430 is the scheduled end of play we play till 5 pm sometimes and after five days we do not get a result That is not nice for the game So I love how there is more results in todays world Even if we are playing only four days of cricket and one day gets washed out still you get a result that is the beauty of Test cricket and that is how it should stay you want to get a result after five days and you should not have a draw he concludedIn 90 Tests from 20052014 Dhoni scored 4876 runs at an average of 3809 with six centuries and 33 fifties His best score was 224All eyes will be on Dhoni as the day for the announcement of Indian Premier League IPL retentions comes closer and whether he will play another season for Chennai Super Kings CSKThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever