MS Dhoni “Champion” Participant With Two World Cup Titles, Says Waqar Younis

Former Pakistani pacer Waqar Younis on Monday mentioned wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a ”champion” who has gained two World Cup titles for his nation. Younis heaped lavish reward on former Indian captain and revealed that Dhoni has certainly accomplished an incredible job in carrying ahead the momentum of the group that began throughout the period of Sourav Ganguly. Underneath Dhoni’s captaincy, India gained the inaugural version of the ICC T20 World Cup in 2007 and ODI World Cup in 2011. In 2013, Dhoni led to his facet to triumph the ICC Champions Trophy and have become the one captain within the historical past of cricket to win all main ICC trophies.

Dhoni additionally guided India to achieve the primary spot within the Check rankings.

“Sourav Ganguly was the one who began that journey of enchancment for Indian cricket and MS Dhoni took that journey forward. He’s a World Cup champion and has gained two World Cups. I feel he has accomplished splendidly effectively for himself, for his nation and naturally, for his household,” Younis mentioned whereas talking solely to GloFans throughout chat present ‘Q20’ on Twitter.

Former skipper Sourav Ganguly, who’s now the president of the BCCI is thought to be the very best captain that Indian cricket has ever produced and it was his captaincy that inculcated a powerful successful mentality within the group and the Males in Blue grew to become a pressure to reckon with outdoors the nation as effectively.

Whereas agreeing to Ganguly’s immense contribution to Indian cricket. Younis additionally confessed that Dhoni as a pacesetter had modified the face of Indian cricket endlessly and fulfilled his duty as a captain par excellence.

“What a cricketer MS Dhoni is. The way in which he led the group, it’s troublesome to specific it in phrases. He’s an excellent and large chief who understands issues. He is a superb human being and coming from a small village and the heights he has achieved plus main such a giant nation and group is certainly praiseworthy,” Younis mentioned.

Dhoni is at the moment on a sabbatical from worldwide cricket. The 38-year-old final performed aggressive cricket throughout the 2019 World Cup. He needed to face criticism for his gradual batting strategy throughout India’s matches within the high-profile sport.

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Dhoni didn’t discover a place for himself within the BCCI’s centrally contracted gamers listing. The board had launched the listing of central contract listing of gamers for the interval from October 2019 to September 2020.

The wicketkeeper-batsman will flip 39 on July 7, Tuesday.