IND vs BAN: "Calm, Yet Very Matured"- Sachin Tendulkar On Why He Suggested MS Dhoni's Name For Captaincy

In 2008, when MS Dhoni was elevated to Test captain, the Indian team’s senior players included Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, and Zaheer Khan. 

Dhoni led India to victory in the ICC World T20 in its first competition, which was contested in 2007 in South Africa, and led India to victory in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011. Dhoni became the first and remains the only skipper to date to have won all three ICC Trophies when India won the tournament in England in 2013. 

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Sachin Tendulkar Recalls How Young MS Dhoni Impressed Him

The legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has explained why he suggested MS Dhoni as captain in 2007. In the first ICC World T20 that year, Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and Rahul Dravid agreed to give young players an opportunity, and BCCI had questioned the master about his choice for captain. 

“This was in England when I was offered captaincy. I said we have a very good leader in the team who was still a junior, and he is someone you should look at closely. I have had a lot of conversations with him, more so on the field where I would be fielding at first slip and asked him, what do you think?

Though Rahul was the captain but I would ask him and the feedback I received was very balanced, calm, yet very much matured,” Tendulkar said in an Infosys event.  

“Good captaincy is about being a step ahead of opposition. If one is smart enough to do that, like we say, josh se nahi, hosh se khelo (play sensibly). It doesn’t happen instantly, you won’t get 10 wickets in 10 balls. You have to plan it. At the end of the day, the scoreboard matters. And I saw those qualities in him. Hence, I recommended his name,” Tendulkar further added. 

MS Dhoni has 195 international stumpings, which is the most of any wicketkeeper and makes him without a doubt the fastest man behind the wicket. In his 350 ODI matches, Dhoni’s top score was 183 against Sri Lanka. 

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