A young Indian team has twice hovered close to an overseas victory in the past eight months — at Johannesburg and Wellington. And twice its efforts were thwarted and M.S. Dhoni’s men had to settle for a draw.
Finally when a much awaited triumph was gloriously etched at Lord’s, the skipper was a happy man and he termed it as a ‘reward for hard work.’
“It was a Test where there was pressure on us. We lost the toss, had to bat and I thought the openers and the top-order did their job and then in their first innings Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) bowled well and in the second innings, Ishant (Sharma) did well,” said Dhoni. The skipper also praised the efforts of Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay and Ravindra Jadeja.
And then a chilling reality sunk in as Dhoni hinted at the inevitable curtains closing in on his career. “It will be my last Test match at Lord’s. I don’t see myself coming again and I don’t know when we will play here. It feels good to win Test matches outside India,” he said.
