‘Calm, but very mature’: Why Tendulkar advisable MS Dhoni’s title for captaincy

“It was in England once I was supplied the captaincy. I mentioned that we’ve an excellent chief within the group who was nonetheless a junior, and he’s somebody it’s best to watch carefully. I’ve had numerous chats with him, particularly on the bottom the place I will probably be fielding at first slip and requested him, what do you suppose? Although Rahul was the captain, I might ask him and the response I obtained was very balanced, calm, but very mature.

“Good captaincy is about staying one step forward of the opposition. If one is wise sufficient to take action, as we are saying, josh se nahi, hosh se khelo (play sensibly). It does not occur immediately, you will not get 10 wickets in 10 balls. You need to plan for it. At the top of the day, the scoreboard issues. And I noticed these qualities in him. So, I advisable his title,” Tendulkar additional mentioned.

Dhoni’s elevation to the Test captaincy in 2008 got here at a time when the Indian dressing room nonetheless had senior cricketers like Tendulkar himself, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan.

It was underneath Dhoni’s captaincy that India received the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011, which was adopted by India’s triumph within the ICC World T20 in 2007 in its maiden version of the event held in South Africa. With India profitable the ICC Champions Trophy in England in 2013, Dhoni grew to become the primary and remains to be the one captain to have received all three ICC trophies.

Undisputedly the quickest man behind the wicket, Dhoni has 195 worldwide stumpings, essentially the most by any wicket-keeper. Dhoni performed 350 ODIs along with his highest rating of 183 towards Sri Lanka.