Dhoni refuses to blame police, but sorry for spectators

Indian captain MS Dhoni today sympathised with the cricket fans who were lathi-charged in Nagpur during a mad rush for tickets for the high-profile India-South Africa World Cup clash but refused to blame the police for the incident.

Indian captain MS Dhoni today sympathised with the cricket fans who were lathi-charged in Nagpur during a mad rush for tickets for the high-profile India-South Africa World Cup clash but refused to blame the police for the incident.

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"It is difficult to react when you are not at the exact place where the incident happens. But I think police must not be happy to do that. They must have taken the action when they felt it was needed," said Dhoni.

"Police must have done that to avoid a stampede-like or a very bad situation. It is not ideal to always project the police as bad. But of course everybody feels bad when fans get beaten up," he added.