Speculations of MS Dhoni’s retirement is rife ever since India’s loss to New Zealand in World Cup semi-final by 18 runs to bow out of the show piece event. Fans have started calling the veteran of 350 ODIs to not retire from cricket and keep serving for the nation until he is fit. There are speculations that Dhoni may hang up his boots and may not travel to West Indies for the next series.
However, the 38-year-old has taken many shocking decisions and no one can actually predict his retirement.
4- Retiring from test cricket
MS Dhoni surprised many by announcing his retirement from test cricket in between an away test series against Australia in 2014. Dhoni gave no hints of the big decision and announced his retirement in a press conference.
He holds an impressive record of 4,876 runs, 256 catches and 38 stumpings in 90 Tests, with 27 wins in his 60 matches as captain.
3- Preferring an in-experienced Joginder Sharma over Harbhajan Singh in 2007 World T20 final
Misbah-ul-Haq took the match right down to the wire after Pakistan needed 13 runs off the last over to win the finals. Everyone expected an experienced Harbhajan Singh to bowl the over but he gave the ball to a lesser known Joginder Sharma.
Misbah was picking up Harbhajan with ease and giving the bowl to Sharma proved to be decisive for India. Misbah slammed him for a six and wanted to go for a glory shot to finish the match. He scooped the third delivery of the over and ended up getting caught by short fine leg fielder- Sreesanth. India won the game by 5 runs and the journey of “MS Dhoni” the captain started from there on.
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