“There Cannot Be A Bigger Cricketer…”: Ex-India Star Sums Up MS Dhoni’s Persona

Despite asserting his retirement from worldwide cricket in August 2020, former India captain MS Dhoni enjoys an enormous fan following. Dhoni, who continues to play for Chennai Super Kings within the Indian Premier League, remains to be one of many largest crowd-pullers within the cash-rich league. Not simply in Chennai however all over the place he goes, Dhoni’s fandom can’t be denied. Speaking forward of CSK’s sport towards the SunRisers Hyderabad, former India spinner Harbhajan Singh recommended that nobody has a much bigger fanbase than Dhoni within the nation.

“Mahendra Singh Dhoni is only one. There cannot be a bigger cricketer than him in India. Someone could have scored more runs than him and someone could have taken more wickets than him, but no one has a bigger fanbase than him,” Harbhajan stated on Star Sports.

Harbhajan, who performed underneath Dhoni’s captaincy within the Indian workforce and CSK, feels that the veteran wicketkeeper-batter has accepted the fandom with nothing however gratitude.

“Dhoni has accepted this fandom to heart and he respects his teammates as well. He walks with so much love and emotion that anyone else would go mad, but Dhoni has carried this love and emotion in his heart for 15 years and he still hasn’t changed at all,” he added.

The 41-year-old is without doubt one of the most profitable captains within the historical past of the sport, having received quite a lot of silverware in worldwide, in addition to franchise cricket.

Dhoni is the one Indian captain to have received all three ICC tournaments — 2007 T20 World CUp, 2011 ODI World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy.

He has additionally led CSK to 4 IPL titles (2010, 2011, 2018 and 2021).