"You think I know him (Jadeja) well, but even I'm finding out over a period of time," a smiling Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony as he was asked about Jadeja's strengths having played alongside him at CSK as well.
"He (Jadeja) is a player who provides us with balance in the side as we don't have a quality seamer all-rounder," Dhoni explained as he expressed satisfaction with his team's overall performance.
"Our bowlers were able to keep the batsmen at their respective ends and didn't let them rotate strike easily. I think the execution was not really there (at the death). We'd been happy with 230 at the outset."
With Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag seeming to be a 'pair of the past', Dhoni is happy that both Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma has risen to the occasion.
The team is already in the semi-final but Dhoni said that they won't take the match against arch-rivals Pakistan lightly.
"I don't think Indian team has every played a dead game, I think it is also important in areas where we want to improve including death bowling where we didn't execute our plans correctly."
Man of the Match is Ravindra Jadeja said that sticking to a stump-to-stump line helped his cause.
Having played an ODI against England in 2011 at the Oval also helped.
"I played here against England and took two wickets.
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