Dhoni quit international cricket on Saturday, calling time on an illustrious, trophy-laden career. The decision ended a year of speculation around the future of the enigmatic 39-year-old, who quit Test cricket in 2014 and had not featured for India since the side’s semi-final exit at the ODI World Cup in July last year. The 39-year-old represented India in 350 ODIs, 90 Tests and 98 T20s while claiming a staggering 829 dismissals behind the stumps.
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Dhoni is among the most successful captains too in world cricket, he is one of the most admired and respected cricketers. Dhoni is also among the most successful captains in world cricket. It was under his leadership that India lifted the World Cup in 2011 after having led India to triumph in the World T20 in its maiden edition held in 2007 in South Africa. With India winning the Champions Trophy in 2013 in England, Dhoni became the first and is still the only captain to have won all three ICC Trophies. While his heroics in the limited-overs formats are well organised, it was also under his leadership that India became the number-1 Test side in 2009 and the team stayed at the top for more than 600 days. He has turned India to victory in 21 home Test matches, the most by an Indian captain.
Soon after Dhoni’s announcement, Raina too retired from international duty after being out of the side for quite some time.
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In ODIs, he finished after 13 years — the last match in July 2018 in England — with 5,615 runs from 226 games at an average of 35.31, with five centuries and 36 half-centuries. In 78 T20Is, he amassed 1,605 runs, averaging 29.18, at a strike rate of 134.87, also including a hundred and five fifties. He played 18 games in Test cricket and scored 768 runs, including a century on his debut.
MS Dhoni took no-decision in haste in his almost 16 years career. While his retirement may have had come as surprise to many but the timing of the retirement and a full-fledged Instagram video covering his entire journey in 4 minutes and 7 seconds tells one a different story. However, later it was revealed that MS Dhoni had informed the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) before taking the massive call. It has been learnt that he even spoke to former BCCI president N Srinivasan after landing in Chennai for the IPL 2020 camp.
The Former Indian captain is one of the
most 'private and non-social' high-profile cricketer in the country. During the
entire lockdown period, he was glued with him family in Ranchi and we got
occasional glimpses of him courtesy social media posts from his wife Sakshi and
daughter Ziva. His departure from Test cricket was similar, his stepping down
from captaincy in white-ball cricket in 2017 was no different.
MS Dhoni remembers his seniors by a song
A lot has been written about MS Dhoni by
now and this writes up focuses on nothing but the internal emotions of MS Dhoni.
The 39-year-old took the help of late Mukesh to speak his heart out. Tribute to the game, his seniors and the current crop is very visible in the video, you just
have to give all your ears to the song and eyes to the pictures, coming one
after the other, perfectly-getting in sync with the wordings of the song from
1976 movie 'Kabhie Kabhie'.
'Mujhe Pehle kitne shayer aae aur aakar
chale gae. Kuch aahe bhar ke Laut gae, Kuch nagme gaa kr chale gae' -- If you
don't have moist eyes while hearing this part of the Mukesh's song is running
in Dhoni's retirement video, then you are really strong my friend. Dhoni
signals towards the greats of the game, who have come before him and then gone.
Pictures of him with Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman Sachin Tendulkar,
Ashish Nehra, Zaheer Khan pops up.
The Ranchi-born star says his seniors were
also "stories" at one point of time and so is he now. The brutal
reality of any sports floors everyone here. MS Dhoni, the mature captain, the
captain cool understands the hard truth of the game. Everyone has to go. 'Pal
Do Pal Meri Hasti Hai, Pal Do Pal Meri Jawani hai' -- MS Dhoni, the only
captain with all three ICC trophies, says his stardom is temporary and so is
his youth. By this point of the video, one is bound to say that 'Dhoni finishes
off in style'.
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Why MS Dhoni Chose to Announce International Retirement at 19:29 on August 15?
Ever since MS Dhoni announced his
international retirement at” 19:29” on Saturday evening (August 15),
speculations have been rife about the timing of it. Why did he select” 19:29”
as the time? Fans have been trying to figure out what is it with the time. Some
feel one should not read too much into it, while some others feel there has to
be something behind it. MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina made sure fans had a Visual
Treat Sir Vivian Richards.
From 1929 hrs. consider me as Retired,”
Dhoni wrote along with the video on Instagram. The video showed his entire an international journey from being run out in his first international innings to
winning the 2011 World Cup, it was an emotional video as the iconic song ‘Main
pal do pal ka shayar hun’ playing throughout the video.
- Dhoni donned jersey number 7 during his career, while Raina wore number 3. If one joins the two digits, you get 73, which also happens to be the number of years India has completed its Independence.
- The other theory suggests that it is the time when India lost against New Zealand in the 2019 Cricket World Cup in the semi-final, which was also Dhoni’s last international match for India.
- Dhoni is currently in Chennai for a six-day training camp for CSK and is scheduled to leave for UAE on August 21. IPL 13 is scheduled to start from September 19 and the final would take place on November 10. Three venues would be used for the tournament in a bid to minimize travel for players amid the pandemic.
One day after MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina announced their retirement from international cricket, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) — the Indian Premier League franchise — posted a video of their iconic skipper and his deputy Raina meeting up with their teammates in Chennai for a training camp before they fly out to the UAE for IPL 13, which was moved outside India due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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