Twitter Erupts In Joy As BCCI Announces MS Dhoni As The Mentor Of Team India For T20 World Cup 2021
Published - 08 Sep 2021, 11:39 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 07:06 PM

Twitter Erupts In Joy As BCCI Announces MS Dhoni As The Mentor Of Team India For T20 World Cup 2021. Twitterati couldn’t hold back its emotions as the BCCI came with a shocking announcement of appointing former Indian captain MS Dhoni as the mentor of Team India for ICC T20 World Cup 2021.
BCCI came up with a shocker of news when they announced that former Indian skipper MS Dhoni will be mentoring the Men in Blue in order to achieve the T20 World Cup 2021 title. The news broke the internet as the fans couldn’t believe that their favorite skipper was returning to the side as a guide.

Twitter Erupts In Joy As BCCI Announces MS Dhoni As The Mentor Of Team India For T20 World Cup 2021
The Board of Control for Cricket in India came up with India’s T20 World Cup squad which is all set to take place from October 17 to November 15 later this year. Virat Kohli will be seen leading the side and senior opener Shikhar Dhawan has been dropped from the squad. Apart from him, Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav have also been dropped from the squad.

There were some surprising inclusions too including the likes of Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel. However, the biggest surprise was the announcement of MS Dhoni being the mentor of the side for the tournament. Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket last year on August 15.
Twitter was also in disbelief with the news and Twitterati was elated with the announcement. Here are the best tweets:
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Captain – Virat Kohli
Vice Captain – Rohit Sharma
Mentor – MS DhoniThree biggest names of Indian team in this generation will be in UAE for the T20 World Cup.
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India will entering the T20 World Cup with:
Virat Kohli as captain.
Rohit Sharma as Vice Captain.
MS Dhoni as mentor.
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Jay Shah said he spoke to MS Dhoni. He was okay with the decision and agreed to be a mentor of India for T20 World Cup only.
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Only MS Dhoni Part of all ICC T20 World Cup Event. This time he part of India team As Mentor. – The Legend.
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That is one HELL of a team . Well done selectors .
M S DHONI – that's a master stroke too ???
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https://twitter.com/Actor_Siddharth/status/1435367161158004737?s=20
India’s squad for T20 World Cup 2021: Virat Kohli (Capt), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohd Shami.
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