Former BCCI Chief Sharad Pawar told Sachin Tendulkar MS Dhoni’s name for India’s captaincy

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and former BCCI president Sharad Pawar revealed on Sunday that master blaster Sachin Tendulkar suggested Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name for the way India was headed in 2007. Addressing a public meeting on Sundar, Pawar revealed how Rahul Dravid wanted to leave. A new candidate to captain the captaincy and lead the national team was to be found in 2007. Pawar served as the BCCI President for three years from 2005 to 2008. I remember India went to England in 2007. At that time, Rahul Dravid was the captain. I was in England then and Dravid had come to see me. . Role, ”said Pawar during a public meeting.

“I told Sachin that if you and Dravid don’t want to lead both sides, how will we go about things? Then Sachin told me that we have another player in the country who can lead this team And his name is nobody else. ” Compared to MS Dhoni. After that, we provided leadership to Dhoni, ”he said.

In 2007, under Dravid’s leadership, India were eliminated from the 50-over World Cup in the group stages and the side faced severe criticism. In the same year, Dhoni was named as the captain for the T20 World Cup and later, he led the country in both ODIs and Tests.

It was under Dhoni’s leadership that India lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 after leading India to victory in the ICC World T20 in their first edition of the tournament held in South Africa in 2007.

With India winning the ICC Champions Trophy in England in 2013, Dhoni became the first and is still the only captain to win all three ICC trophies.

Unknowingly the fastest behind the wicket, Dhoni has 195 international stumps, the most by any wicket-keeper. Dhoni played 350 ODIs against Sri Lanka with his highest score being 183.

Also known as “Captain Cool”, Dhoni is known for his calmness and exquisite captaincy on the field. He was also known for his habit of opting for reviews and many people made funny comments renaming the “Dhoni-review system” to “decision-review system”.

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In December 2014, he announced his retirement from the Test and offered an opportunity to the likes of Wriddhiman Saha. Dhoni, after playing 90 Tests, scored 4,876 runs at an average of 38.09 at the time of his Test career.

Last year, Dhoni announced his retirement from both ODIs and T20s at the end of his 16-year-long international career.