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Indian Team is going strong in ongoing ICC World Cup 2019 tournament. The team has reached to the semi-finale and will face Sri Lanka in the match. Also, speculations on Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s retirement are rife after media reports started doing the round which says that former Indian cricket team captain and the wicket keeper will be quitting after India’s last match in the world cup. It can be his last game in India colours.
“If India qualify for the finals and go on to win the World Cup on July 14 at the Lord’s, it would be ideal setting for a fitting farewell to one of the legends of Indian cricket,” read the report.
“You never know with MS Dhoni. But it is unlikely that he will continue to play for India after this World Cup. But since his decisions to quit captaincy from the three formats have been taken so suddenly, it is very difficult to predict at the moment,” as per a senior BCCI official statement. Also, the current selection committee is likely to stay till the October AGM and it will obviously start the changeover process in Australia next year citing the ICC T20 World Cup.
And the incumbents will be taken over by the new selection committee. It will identify possible replacements for the shorter formats with reasonable time left for the World T20s.
However at this point of time when India is in the semi-finals at the World Cup nobody including the team management and the BCCI want to discuss the sensitive issue of MS Dhoni quitting the game.
Dhoni’s on-field contribution is still immense. “The team management had to take a call in 2017 after the Champions Trophy. They decided that they will invest another two years in Dhoni till the 2019 World Cup. India have reached the semi-finals despite his lukewarm performances so he has been carefully shielded,” a former India player told.
“No one can ask him to retire but obviously he has got the drift that post World Cup, things won’t be the same,” he said.
Dhoni had announced retirement from Test cricket in the year 2014 and had stepped down as India’s limited-overs captain in January 2017.
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