MS Dhoni Not Thinking About Retirement, Says His Manager

Silencing all the speculations about what the future holds for MS Dhoni in international cricket, his manager Mihir Diwarkar, said that the former India captain is not thinking about retirement. The 2011 World Cup winning captain came under sever criticism for maintaining a poor strike rate in the quadrennial. Dhoni seemingly failed to finish games like he did during his earlier days.

Later, he decided to stay away from cricket, taking an initial two-month sabbatical which saw him serve the Indian Army. However, even after that period, he did not return to game and remained in complete silence as speculations began to grow over his international future. Incidentally, Dhoni began early preparations for the IPL, but the lucrative tournament did not start as per schedule due to the pandemic situation.

Now his childhood friend and manager Mihir Diwakar has claimed that Dhoni is not thinking about retirement at all. He, however said that the CSK captain is keen to play the IPL and worked hard for it well in advance.

“Being friends, we don’t talk about his cricket. But looking at him, he’s not all thinking about retirement,” Diwakar was quoted as saying by PTI.

“He is very determined to play the IPL. He has worked really hard for this. If you remember he was there in Chennai one month in advance before everything was shut down,” he added.

Dhoni made a big name for himself by making the country proud with his achievements after coming from the cricketing backwaters of Ranchi. He has achieved immense success as a player and also grew up to be one of the most successful captains and achieved almost everything the ICC tournaments had to offer.

All the success has made Dhoni one of the most influential person on the cricketing circuit but he was not the same when he was first introduced to the national team. Besides that, MS Dhoni has also been the go-to man for his teammates whenever he is on the field.

Dhoni has scored over 10773 runs in ODIs at an average of 50.57.