Twenty-seven needed off eight balls. Mohammed Siraj had just bowled an excellent wide yorker to MS Dhoni. He attempted an encore and ended up overpitching it, but it was still a hard-to-hit low full-toss.
Not hard, however, for this Dhoni. The vintage Dhoni. He bent his back knee, opened the face of the bat, and scythed it over point for six. That it cleared the boundary was down to Dhoni's sheer power. Siraj was gobsmacked. The Chinnaswamy Stadium was gobsmacked. The Chennai Super Kings dugout was gobsmacked. Those who doubted whether Dhoni still had it were gobsmacked.