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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kudos_utopia" data-source="post: 5771971" data-attributes="member: 90660">Is it okay that Dhoni should play at number 5? IIIt's true that Dhoni has been outstanding at Nos. 3 and 4 - he first announced himself on the world stage at No. 3, scoring 148 against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, while his highest ODI score of 183 not out came at the same slot as well. However, in the last couple of years he has modified his game perfectly to suit the requirements of the lower positions: at No. 5, he averages more than 50 at a strike rate touching 88, and he hasn't done badly at six either. Batting higher up the order is often the easier task in ODIs, which is why Dhoni's numbers at Nos. 5 and 6 are even more praiseworthy. As the table below shows, he is the only player, among those who've scored more than 1000 runs at No. 5, to average more than 50 at that slot. His strike rate is excellent too, 87.65, which gives him a batting index (average multiplied by runs per ball) of 44.45. Andrew Flintoff follows closely, but apart from Flintoff and Andrew Symonds, none of the others have an index in the 40s. And for those who suggest Dhoni hasn't scored enough hundreds at five, you only need to point at Inzamam-ul-Haq's stats - he played 105 innings at that slot, but managed no century despite having gone past fifty 27 times. Shivnarine Chanderpaul hasn't scored a century at that position either, though he has 15 fifties to his name. Batting lower down the order obviously limits the possibilities of getting to three figures, but Dhoni's average and strike rates indicate he has been exceptional at that position. </blockquote>

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