Indian coach Ravi Shastri has finally brought a dead end to the speculation of MS Dhoni’s retirement from all forms of cricket. Shastri has clarified that the former skipper took the match ball from the on-field umpires during the third ODI against England ‘to show the ball to India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun.
“MS wanted to show the ball to Bharat Arun. He wanted to show him the wear and tear the ball had endured, to get a general idea of what the conditions were like,” Shastri was quoted as saying to the Times of India.
There were few rumours of the legend retiring from cricket when he took the match ball from umpires after England cruised to a 8 wickets victory to seal the ODI series 2-1. There were speculations that Dhoni who has failed to score runs at healthy pace in the series will finally hung his boots after this event at Leeds.
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Here’s the video of the MS Dhoni taking the ball from umpires after the game. #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/C14FwhCwfq
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Lot was expected from a resurgent Dhoni who was coming from a back of an impressive IPL season with Chennai Super Kings, where he found back his striking prowess. But he failed to impress in the recently concluded ODI series and was booed by the fans at Lords for his slow paced innings of 37 runs from 59 balls in a scenario when India needed to score at a healthy rate.
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Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly believes Dhoni needs to up his game if the team management is thinking of him as a probable in playing XI of 2019 world cup.
Dhoni however has been a man of utmost privacy. His personal decisions have not been abuzzed in the media or amongst the fans, starting from his private marriage in 2010 to retiring from test in between the 2014 Australia test series and leaving limited overs captaincy in 2017.
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