'The Stars are not born, they are made'- Keshav Banerjee vision made Dhoni star in the crowd!

MS Dhoni — The man who led India in the World Cup win after 28 years in 2011 was a football goalkeeper during his school days. The relationship grew up with forever bonding when Dhoni's childhood coach Keshav Banerjee first seen the glimpse of a future star and made Dhoni believe and fight for it, to make his dream come true. Changing the football gloves with wicketkeeper one, made his destiny turned to the next level. The Star of Indian Cricket, the 'world cup 2011 winning captain, 2007 T-20 World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy champion' have believed in his dream and rest all became golden history.

 

Ok, but did Dhoni really deserve to take over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid back in 2007?

 

Dhoni: HOF?

 

It was Rahul Dravid, who decided to leave the captaincy after tremendous loss from the 2007 World Cup, making the Indian team broken into pieces and the Indian fan burst into anger. That time, what was required was young blood with the creative power to lead the team into the next level and MS -Dhoni who got the opportunity proved to be true. That time, T-20 was becoming the popular tournament and Dhoni made his team to perform their best and play free with passion, which proved them to be Inaugural T-20 World Cup 2007 Champions and India got a new rising captain for future. Rest all, was the golden history!

 

Let's discuss Dhoni's Hall Of Fame moments with everyone,

1. Inaugural T-20 World Cup Champion 2007 as a debutant captain in 2007.
2. Won Asia Cup under his Captaincy in 2010 and 2016.
3. Achieved Cricket World Cup for team India after long 28 years.
4. Made India Champion in Champions Trophy Champions in 2013 and became Runner-up in 2017.
5. Under Dhoni's captaincy, India topped the Test cricket rankings for the first time, in 2009.
6. Dhoni's maiden century against Pakistan in Faisalabad (148) is the fastest century scored by an Indian wicket-keeper.
7. Record of Most not outs (82) in ODIs.
8. Dhoni's 183* against Sri Lanka in 2005 is the highest score by a wicket-keeper.
9. Most wins in T20Is as captain (41).
10. He has played the most international matches as captain (332)

"Dhoni finishes off in style. India lifts the World Cup after 28 years” - Ravi Shastri.

 

Dhoni is only 15 minutes from Tahoe.

 

Living legends from any nation, marks their own infinite destination. Loving Cricket and celebrating sportsmanship for all!

 

Dhoni couldn’t take JDV.

 

I want to know what this guy thinks of Jeets.

 

What happened to our soccer guy? He brought soccer into every thread. Can't remember his name.

 

Have to admit, though, he was right about Atlanta being a good MLS town.

 

Our old friend is keeping busy.

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