MS Dhoni's crawl in Vizag was chiefly due to his inability to connect his shots, even those that were once his staple, like the heaves down the legside and the powerful slap-cuts. A reason he kept mistiming the deliveries was that he was woefully imbalanced at the crease. In the past, he unfurled all those big strokes with a solid base. Here, his head was falling over, the back-foot was dragging sideways and consequently, the bat-swing wasn’t quite fluid. Still, his fabled hand-eye coordination would salvage him, but it has been on the decline as well.