Veteran Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary on Wednesday (May 13) said he is yet to ask former skipper MS Dhoni the reason behind his ouster from India’s Playing XI a match after scoring his maiden ODI ton for the team.

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Playing his 6th ODI, Tiwary scored a match-winning 104* against West Indies in December 2011 in Chennai. But he was dropped from the team and did not feature in the next 14 games.

In fact, Tiwary has played only 12 ODIs in total with the last one coming in July 2015. In the shortest format (T20Is), he got just three chances to prove his worth.

“I never thought that after scoring a 100 for my country, getting a Man of the Match Award, I will not find a place in the playing XI for the next 14 games. But I also do respect the fact that the captain and the coach or the management had some other ideas as well because we as players have to respect whatever they were thinking at that point of time, maybe they thought otherwise,” Tiwary said in a video interview published on the FanCode App.

"I never got the opportunity, or you say courage, at that point of time to go and ask Mahi, our captain during that time, because we respect our seniors so much that we tend to hold ourselves back on questioning a few things. So, I haven't questioned him yet," he added.

Tiwary, 34, also revealed that he wanted to open this topic during his stint with the now dysfunctional IPL franchise Rising Pune Supergiant, in which Dhoni was his captain, but resisted because of the 'game situation and intensity in the IPL'.

"I've obviously thought about asking him in the future," the former Bengal captain said.

(With IANS inputs)