New Delhi: Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis picked wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni as the best finisher the game of cricket has ever seen. Du Plessis, who bats as an opener under MS Dhoni's captaincy in Chennai Super Kings (CSK), said that Dhoni's 87 runs off 40-odd balls innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in last year's IPL shows his ability. 

Faf took to social media and shared quite a few CSK memories.

MS Dhoni has been, obviously, part of the team since the beginning but I see him as the best finisher in the game. To have been on the field and in the side for so many years and to have just seen him construct innings together and how he has finished games," Faf du Plessis said in a video tweeted by CSK.


"Last year against RCB. I think we were 60-6 or 7 and basically we should be bowled out for 90. He was in at the moment and absorbed pressure very well. Then he started hitting more and more sixes. The sixes he was hitting was out of the stadium. He ended up getting 87 off 40-odd balls (sic).

"I think it was 26 required off the last over and after the game, we were like what just happened," said Du Plessis. CSK were chasing a target of 162 and lost their first four wickets within the powerplay overs. The innings was reinvigorated when Dhoni, assisted for a time by Ambati Rayudu, started sending the ball out of the park. However, despite Dhoni's unbeaten 84 off 48 balls, CSK lost the match by one run.

Du Plessis mentioned Dhoni's innings while talking about his favourite knocks by CSK batsmen.

"2013, Suresh Raina scored a hundred against Kings XI Punjab that won us the game on its own. Fast forward to 2018, Dwayne Bravo against Mumbai Indians. We were completely out of the game, he came in at number 7 or 8 and got 67 or 70 off 40-odd balls. The game -- how we won it, I still don't know," he said.