Former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sharad Pawar revealed how legendary Sachin Tendulkar turned down the Indian captaincy for the second time and instructed MS Dhoni’s identify for India captaincy means again in 2007. While addressing a public assembly on Sunday, Pawar revealed how Rahul Dravid needed to go away captaincy in 2007 and a brand new candidate needed to be came upon for main the nationwide workforce.
Pawar served because the BCCI president for a interval of three years from 2005 to 2008. “I keep in mind India had gone to England in 2007. At that point, Rahul Dravid was the captain. I used to be there in England then and Dravid got here to fulfill me. He informed me how he not needed to guide India.
“He informed me how the captaincy was affecting his batting. He informed me that he must be relieved from the captaincy. I then requested Sachin Tendulkar to guide the aspect, however he refused the role,” stated Pawar throughout a public assembly.
“I told Sachin that if both of you and Dravid do not want to lead the side, how will we go about things? Then Sachin told me that we have one more player in the country who could lead the side and his name is none other than MS Dhoni. After that, we gave the leadership to Dhoni,” he added.
In 2007, below Dravid’s management, India was knocked out of the 50-over World Cup in the group levels and the aspect was subjected to extreme criticism. In the identical 12 months, Dhoni was named as skipper for the T20 World Cup and afterward, he went on to guide the nation in each ODIs and Tests.
It was below Dhoni’s management that India lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 after having led India to triumph in the ICC World T20 in its maiden version of the match held in 2007 in South Africa.
With India profitable the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013 in England, Dhoni became the primary and remains to be the one captain up to now to have received all three ICC Trophies. Dhoni has 195 worldwide stumpings, essentially the most by any wicket-keeper and performed 350 ODIs along with his highest rating being 183 in opposition to Sri Lanka.
Also known as ‘Captain Cool’, Dhoni is thought for his calmness and beautiful captaincy on the sphere. In December 2014, he introduced his retirement from Tests and gave an opportunity to the likes of Wriddhiman Saha.
Dhoni known as time on his Test profession after taking part in 90 Tests, managing to attain 4,876 runs at a mean of 38.09. Last 12 months, Dhoni introduced his retirement from each ODIs and T20s, marking an finish to his 16-year lengthy worldwide profession.
