India’s most successful captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni quits captaincy. He left the ODI captaincy in earlier and now going to leave the limited overs responsibility.
According to reports the most dominating captain will leave his place before England series. However, he will continue to play as a wicketkeeper-batsman. But this time he will be not seen as playing skipping role on field.
Wednesday The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) has revealed the news to step down from the post of captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In three format of cricket Dhoni led India most. Team India got biggest winning under him.
Before that Rahul Dravid was in the post. After losing against Bangladesh in 2007 they has been kicked out from World Cup. And he left the place of captaincy. Then Dhoni take the big responsibility of the team and under his captaincy the team was taking preparation for next World Cup. Obviously India got the benefits. In 2011 they won the World Cup for the second time in his leadership.
Dhoni led the country in 199 one-day matches. His team won 110 matches and lost 74 games. 4 matches result defined tie and rest 11 was abandoned. The country has done more to advance the global title. In 2007 the team won World Cup championship under his leadership.
Last year on the World Cup semi-finals after Dhoni’s dismissal it was began to be asked about his retire. The 35-year-old gave a glimpse of the game of cricket World Cup 2019.
The captain cool lead the team in 72 matches. Among them India won 41 and lost 28 games. One match has been Tie and two matches were abandoned.
MS got the Test captaincy in 2008. Under his leadership, India reached the top of the rankings in this format of the ICC. In Australia in 2014 Tests, Dhoni suddenly retired from this version. At that time, the leadership of Test and ODI moved to Virat kohli.
He lead 60 Test and gave 27 winning to the team. No other captain of India gave so much winning to the country. Sourav Ganguly being the second highest score along with 21 victory.
India will play three One Day Internationals and T20 against England. The selectors will meet in Mumbai on Friday for the team selection. The first match will begin on January 15 in Pune.
Dhoni, who led the team from the front all the time now going to play under some others captaincy. Many think India needs a new captain and many think Dhoni was best.
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