Rising Pune Supergiants beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets

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Despite the millions of fans, Dhoni has on various social media handles, Sushant has always been an ardent follower of the former TeamIndia's captain. He was only 27 then, still the age to wink at failures. We benefited from it at Chennai [Super Kings] a lot and people were yearning for a performance like that. They seldom needed Dhoni to construct an innings.

Now, at 35, Dhoni faces the most challenging phase of his T20 career. It's obvious he isn't quite adept at strike-rate rotation.

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Pandya and Harbhajan Singh were run out at the death, but for only the fifth time in the IPL's 10 years, a score under 150 was successfully defended. Harsh as it may sound, Dhoni batting longer puts his team in a severe disadvantage.

Raina's guidance came in the wake of his side's ten-wicket defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders in their previous IPL match.

"When the two of us open, being at the non-striker's end and watching you play a shot with the straight bat is a learning for me".

Under pressure for his indifferent IPL form, Dhoni finally comes good to steer Pune to a close win over Hyderabad For the first part of his innings, there was no sweet spot in MS Dhoni's bat.

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What matters is the absolute faith he enjoys from his captain.

Despite all of this, Raina believed that Dhoni deserves a lot more than such treatment as the latter is no less than a legend of the game and has done a lot for this Indian team and cricket as a whole. "The kind of shots that he played today as soon as he came out in the middle were unbelievable".

Dhoni played a brilliant knock to guide RPS to victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad from a seemingly hopeless position. We bowled well, there were two dropped catches and I think taking those would have changed the course of the game.

For Pune, Mumbai lad Ajinkya Rahane has had an up and down tournament, but today he will be playing at the Wankhede where he has played plenty of cricket. He believes his squad is fresh after the hectic schedule in the first few weeks since the cash-rich league commenced.

Meanwhile, in yesterday's other game, Mumbai Indians moved four points clear at the top of the standings as they claimed a sixth victory in seven games.

"They will be full of confidence which will be hard for us". Besides Kohli, the jersey has been signed by other Indian team players as well. "Nevertheless we have a promising young side", he said.

With Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashid Khan picking up wickets at will early in the season, Sunrisers will start as favourite against the struggling Supergiant.

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