Under MS Dhoni’s captaincy, Team India won the T20 World Cup 2007, ODI World Cup 2011 and Champions Trophy 2013.
Former Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is considered one of the best captains in the world. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has made a significant contribution in helping Team India win many important matches under his captaincy. Let us tell you that, under Dhoni’s captaincy, Team India won the T20 World Cup 2007, ODI World Cup 2011 and Champions Trophy 2013.
In all these tournaments, Mahendra Singh Dhoni took some important decisions due to which Team India won them. Not only this, under Dhoni’s captaincy, Team India achieved the number 1 ranking in Test cricket in 2009. Dhoni has captained Team India in 200 ODI matches in which he won 110 while the team had to face defeat in 74. There are many important decisions that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has taken and it has also yielded positive results.
With this, today we tell you five such decisions that Mahendra Singh Dhoni took as captain and this completely changed Indian cricket.
1- MS Dhoni’s thinking of T20 cricket in India completely changed
When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was entrusted with the responsibility of captaining Team India in the T20 World Cup 2007, he was also very young and the team also included all the young players. Players of that time like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid were not included in the squad.
However, despite this, Dhoni did excellent captaincy and won against strong teams like Pakistan, England, South Africa, and Australia. The final match of this great tournament was played against Pakistan, which Team India won by 5 runs.
After this, the Indian Premier League started in 2008 and Chennai Super Kings appointed Mahendra Singh Dhoni as their captain.
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2- Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid were dropped from the 2007-08 CB series by MS Dhoni
For a long time, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly have been one of important players of Team India’s ODI team. However, in the ODI World Cup 2007, Team India performed disappointingly under the captaincy of Rahul Dravid, after which he resigned from the post of captaincy.
When Dhoni was appointed the captain of the team, his eyes were on the ODI World Cup 2011. Dhoni appealed to the board that he wanted young and fit players. After this, Dhoni dropped Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the Indian team of the 2007-08 CB series played in Australia. Young players like Rohit Sharma got a chance to play in this important event and Team India also won this tournament.
3- Rohit Sharma got promotion due to MS Dhoni
The current captain of the Indian team, Rohit Sharma, made his ODI debut against Ireland in 2007. Rohit Sharma used to bat in the middle order and his form was also quite ordinary in this batting order. Let us tell you that, Rohit Sharma scored 1974 runs in his first 85 matches at an average of 30.84.
However, during the series against England in 2013, Rohit Sharma was given the responsibility of opening and he scored 83 runs in his first innings. This year, during the 2013 Champions Trophy, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan opened for Team India and the performance of both of them was excellent in this entire tournament.
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As an opener, Rohit Sharma has scored 8836 runs in 176 ODI matches at an average of 55.57, which includes 44 half-centuries and 29 centuries.
4- MS Dhoni gave a new identity to Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in Test cricket
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are some of the most important players of Team India, especially in Test cricket. Both of them made their international debut under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. While Ravichandran Ashwin made his Test debut in 2011, Jadeja made his debut in the last match against England in 2012.
Since then, both these players have played many matches together for Team India and played an important role in their team’s victory. The performance of both of them has been tremendous in Test cricket as well and not only with bowling but both the players have also played an important role in Team India’s victory with batting.
5- MS Dhoni supported Virat Kohli strongly in his early days
As a captain and batsman, Virat Kohli has always performed brilliantly for Team India. However, in the early days of his game, he also had to face a lot of problems. Virat Kohli failed to score runs in the 2011-12 Australia tour.
He scored only 43 runs in the first two Tests and reports were coming that Kohli would be dropped from the team. However, Dhoni supported Kohli strongly. Kohli scored a half-century in the third Test played between these two teams and scored 116 runs in the fourth Test played in Adelaide.
Not only this, Kohli’s performance as a captain was also excellent and Dhoni also praised his captaincy.
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