Lok Sabha MP and an ardent cricket fan Dr Shashi Tharoor has recently showered rich praise on recently-retired MS Dhoni, saying the legendary captain became a synonym for “captaincy” ever since he won the inaugural 2007 T20 World Cup in his maiden captaincy stint for India.
Dhoni, Indian cricket's most successful and loved captain, is arguably one of the greatest captains apart from being a great and amazing human being in the world cricket.
The way Dhoni brought glories for his country and made Indian Cricket Team a winner across the world including all ICC trophies under his leadership, the legendary cricketer has proved his mettle as a captain to one and all that he is tailor-made for the job.
In a live session on Sportskeeda’s Facebook page, Dr Tharoor said: “Especially after his first exciting year when he won the T20 World Cup and settled into the role after that, the word ‘captaincy’ almost became synonymous with Mahendra Singh Dhoni.”
He further added, “You could see the rest of the team looked up to him in every conceivable respect – as a player, as a leader, as a tactician, as a figure who inspired them, as somebody who led them, as someone who never lost his head, always very cool and calm.”
Meanwhile, lauding Dhoni’s batting exploits in white-ball cricket, Mr. Tharoor exclaimed Dhoni’s 183* against Sri Lanka in 2005 was better than all three of Rohit Sharma’s double hundreds in the format, where former captain scored 10,773 runs in 350 ODIs.
He signed off by saying, “His 183 not out against Sri Lanka batting at No. 3 was the best ODI innings I have seen...unbelievable the way in which he commanded the ground. Even more dramatically than Rohit’s double centuries, which were equally spectacular but somehow there was something about Dhoni.”
