WATCH: “MS, you are in there, I am not in your pocket,” Kevin Pietersen gets back at MS Dhoni recalling 2007 dismissal

With India and England about to face off in another important Test match at The Oval from Thursday (September 2), home team’s former captain Kevin Pietersen recalled how he once outfoxed and dismissed the great MS Dhoni at the same venue. The dismissal is from India’s 2007 tour of England where during the third and […]
 
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WATCH: “MS, you are in there, I am not in your pocket,” Kevin Pietersen gets back at MS Dhoni recalling 2007 dismissal

With India and England about to face off in another important Test match at The Oval from Thursday (September 2), home team’s former captain Kevin Pietersen recalled how he once outfoxed and dismissed the great MS Dhoni at the same venue. 

The dismissal is from India’s 2007 tour of England where during the third and final Test, Pietersen denied Dhoni what would’ve been a much deserved century. 

With England bringing on the part-timer and Dhoni in no mood to offer him any respite, the aggressive Indian wicketkeeper-batsman initially smacked Pietersen into the wide mid-wicket region for a huge maximum. 

At that stage, it seemed that Dhoni will reach the milestone in the next couple of deliveries only. However, Pietersen rained on the former India skipper’s parade and got him out mistiming his next attempted big stroke to the deep square leg fieldsman Alastair Cook. 

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WATCH: “MS, you are in there, I am not in your pocket,” Kevin Pietersen gets back at MS Dhoni recalling 2007 dismissal
WATCH: “MS, you are in there, I am not in your pocket,” Kevin Pietersen gets back at MS Dhoni recalling 2007 dismissal

Kevin Pietersen reminded MS Dhoni of the time he got him out at The Oval.

Kevin Pietersen responds to MS Dhoni’s “My first Test wicket” jibe

In a video made at The Oval for ‘betway‘, Kevin Pietersen was seen reminiscing of that Dhoni dismissal and giving back to his Indian mate for a jibe taken on him earlier on. 

 

“Alastair Cook was under a high ball (at deep square leg). And guess who the batter was? Mr. Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He’d knocked me for a monster six, almost went out of the ground into the Thames, gone,” Pietersen said in the video. 

“I held the next one back. MS, I am afraid to say, dude, you’re in there (pointing at his pocket), I am not in your pocket.”

 

It’s obvious here that Pietersen was responding amusingly to Dhoni’s comments on almost dismissing him during the Lord’s 2011 Test match. 

You never mess with MS Dhoni. But Pietersen chose to do so and was left confounded by the legend. 

The backstory to Pietersen’s response at The Oval is related to an IPL 2017 game where Dhoni was playing for Rising Pune Supergiants. 

Sitting in the commentary box, Pietersen was having a conversation through an earpiece with Indian cricketer Manoj Tiwari who, standing in the slips, was only next to Dhoni. 

As moments passed by, Pietersen told Tiwari to pass on his message to Dhoni which was about his golfing skills. 

“Bhaiyya, Pietersen keh raha hain woh aapse accha golfer hain (Pietersen is saying he is a better golfer than you),” Tiwari told Dhoni. 

Dhoni came up with the wittiest response one could’ve imagined. 

“He’s still my first Test wicket”, he said to leave everyone watching in splits and Pietersen completely bamboozled with his reply. 

But Pietersen also made it a point to remind in those few moments from the comm box that Dhoni hadn’t actually got him out and it was only an incorrect on-field call that was reversed by the DRS. 

It was the first-innings at Lord’s 10 years back. With India a bowler short after Zaheer Khan’s untimely injury, Dhoni took it upon himself to share the fast bowlers’ workload and provide them some breather with a few tight overs. 

As it happened, he initially threatened to pull off an LBW and then had him feeling for a ball outside off-stump on which, with some faint sound heard by everyone, Dhoni convinced umpire Billy Bowden to raise his finger. 

But Kevin Pietersen got his respite from DRS, with the replays confirming that the faint sound was from the batsman’s bat hitting the pad as opposed to Dhoni inducing an outside edge. 

This is why Pietersen mentioned it was not him in Dhoni’s pocket, instead the other way around.

What response Dhoni has up his sleeves to this is definitely a cause of great interest ahead of the UAE leg of IPL 2021 where Pietersen will once again be part of the commentary team and the legendary wicketkeeper-batsman will be captaining three-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK).