The Master Finisher Faces Home Ground Challenge in Gujarat

BJP is banking on Modi swinging Assembly elections in Gujarat & K’taka its way –but it won’t be so easy this time.

A master finisher, someone like MS Dhoni, is a much-valued commodity in short-form cricket. In contests where things are nicely set up for him, he converts a potentially comfortable win into a decisive one – enhancing team and personal aura and denting opposition confidence in the process. In poised contests – contests where his team has not had the start it wanted, and the opposition, sensing chance of an upset, has acquired a spring in its step – he steps out with palpable intent, systematically targets bowling department vulnerabilities and fielding gaps, and takes his side over the line. Sometimes with more to spare than the match equation may have suggested at a particular point.