When MS Dhoni retired from worldwide cricket in August of 2022, the followers felt that there can be nobody like him for India ever. He retired as a legend, who’s missed until date by the followers, particularly when India doesn’t do nicely within the ICC tournaments. Dhoni has grow to be synonymous with calmness, smartness and humbleness. He carried his small city self fairly beautifully on the pitch each time he led India on the cricket floor. However what number of of you understand concerning the story of Dhoni changing into the captain of Staff India. It occurred within the yr 2007, when Dhoni was all of 26 years of age. After India’s sorry try at 2007 ODI World Cup the place they bought knocked out in simply the primary spherical, BCCI was searching for substitute of Rahul Dravid. The board had reached out to Sachin Tendulkar to steer the Males In Blue once more. However he refused. Not earlier than recommending a brand new title.
Sachin was fairly impressed with Dhoni. MSD was fairly younger and really new to the crew. However by then, he had spent numerous time with him within the slips. Sachin was very impressed with the insights of Dhoni on the sport. He used to ask for his suggestions and Dhoni would say the fitting issues. That’s the reason Sachin felt it was solely proper that Dhoni, even at such a younger age, led India on the sphere.
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“This was in England when I was offered captaincy. I said we have a very good leader in the team who was still a junior, and he is someone you should look at closely. I have had a lot of conversations with him, more so on the field where I would be fielding at first slip and asked him, what do you think? Though Rahul was the captain but I would ask him and the feedback I received was very balanced, calm, yet very much matured,” Tendulkar mentioned.
Tendulkar mentioned that he noticed nice qualities of a captain in Dhoni.
“Good captaincy is about being a step ahead of opposition. If one is smart enough to do that, like we say, josh se nahi, hosh se khelo (play sensibly). It doesn’t happen instantly, you won’t get 10 wickets in 10 balls. You have to plan it. At the end of the day, the scoreboard matters. And I saw those qualities in him. Hence, I recommended his name,” the previous India batter additional mentioned.
