‘Calm, yet very much matured’: Tendulkar on why he advisable MS Dhoni’s identify for captaincy

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has revealed why he advisable MS Dhoni’s identify for captaincy again in 2007. Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid had determined to provide juniors an opportunity within the inaugural ICC World T20 that 12 months and BCCI had requested the maestro about who can be his alternative for captaincy.

“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 mentioned in an Infosys occasion.

“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 additional added.

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

It was underneath Dhoni’s captaincy that India lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 after having led India to triumph within the ICC World T20 in its maiden version of the match held in 2007 in South Africa. With India successful the ICC Champions Trophy in 2013 in England, Dhoni turned the primary and remains to be the one captain so far to have gained all three ICC Trophies.

Unarguably the quickest man behind the wicket, Dhoni has 195 worldwide stumpings, probably the most by any wicket-keeper. Dhoni performed 350 ODIs together with his highest rating being 183 towards Sri Lanka.