Mahendra Singh Dhoni joins India T20 World Cup squad as mentor

BCCI introduced its 15-member squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup on Wednesday with a giant shock being MS Dhoni becoming a member of the Indian staff as mentor. The reveal was made by BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Wednesday. The information is seen as a giant increase to the Indian aspect, with Dhoni’s expertise within the T20 format heralded as a gamechanger.
Dhoni was part of India’s first-ever Twenty20 worldwide match. He made debut towards South Africa in December 2006. On 12 February 2012, Dhoni made an unbeaten 44 to information India to their first win over Australia at Adelaide. In the ultimate over, he hit a monstrous six which travelled 112 meters off the bowling of Clint McKay. During the post-match presentation, he described this six as extra essential than the one he hit throughout the ICC World Cup remaining in 2011.

He was named as captain and wicketkeeper of the ‘Team of the Tournament’ for the 2014 T20 World Cup by the ICC.
He was chosen to steer India in first-ever World T20 in 2007. He made his captaincy debut towards Scotland however the match was washed off. Thereon, he led India to the ICC World Twenty 20 trophy in South Africa, with a victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in an intensely fought remaining on 24 September 2007, and have become the second Indian captain to have gained a World Cup in any type of cricket, after Kapil Dev.
The staff that was introduced for this version of the World Cup was 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.