Another former Indian captain Kaif, MS Dhoni has often been praise for his ability to marry the use of technology and decision making based on gut feeling and intuition.
Mohammad Kaif, a former Indian cricket player indicated that MSD and Rohit Sharma have mastered the art of incorporating computerized skills with common reason in cricket.
Kaif, who played 125 ODIs and 13 Test matches for India emphasized that despite what can be offer by technology in terms of insights. It cannot replace the dynamic situations developed during a match.
Common sense and mental strength become crucial at such moments when he believes that Dhoni excels better than anyone else.
“Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rohit Sharma have achieved a balance between utilizing technology and applying common sense in the game. But you cannot forecast anything here. It is simply about commonsense prevailing under pressure regardless of how many meetings you may hold before or on match day. What you do is your mental strength and capability? Is there any greater example than Mr. Dhoni?”. Asked Kaif while being interview on 180 Not Out podcast where he profiled highlights from Dhoni’s thought-processes during games including his reliance on instinctual judgments backed by pure experience as well as sensing certain things happening within an encounter.
“Forget him as a computer-like brain… I mean he sees the game differently. He has got instinct, gut feeling also comes through experience. His memory bank says ‘I’ve tried everything’. If you think to hit this ball sixer then Dhoni will say let’s wait for one more ball maybe bowler will deliver bad ball.” Kaif told CricketRecently.Com
However some cricketers are different towards accepting technological advancements in the game not all players are interest in bringing it into their way of playing. Kevin Pietersen once England captain voiced out his love for unrestricted approach implying that he is not one of those tech savvy guys who gets too technical about the game.
“What I like about it, is that it gives people like me who want to use technology in that way the opportunity to do so. But I am not open for all those ideas; I am not that guy. I am not a tech guy who wants to go out there and think… Ok the ball is spinning that much and I have to do this one. Myself is a free spirited person,” Pietersen explained.
“Tonight if I walked out to bat, then you can say whatever this wicket is like. Hit a couple of balls and if it’s there, it can go, feeling good about myself for sure. It’s more let’s just hit on how technical we get how we hold our bat… As you guys know me well-enough, golf is my biggest passion in life…” You can be technical because golf has to be played technically when playing golf you are hitting at still object so many things must be done pertaining the ball but cricket involves just so different variations which are hardly available,” he said finally.
