I cannot forget that dreaded lucky day when the three biggest names in the Indian cricket, pulled them out of the T20 international world cup and the selectors were forced to make the Vice captain, M S Dhoni, the captain of the team. This came as a big surprise to the Indian cricket fans and to the utmost surprise to cricketing world, India won the T20 championship. This was more important for the Indian cricket because India, which was the last nation to support the T20 cricket, became a force to reckon with. We should really be thankful to Sachin Tendulkar for magical moment as he was the one who suggested the name of Dhoni to the selectors when the big guns pulled out. The 2008 CB series in Australia was another milestone in Dhoni’s term as the ODI world champions were beaten in their own backyard and that too very convincingly. It is the result of the same series that the Kangaroos are still sitting on a flaunting seat at the top. When Indians were hammered in the test series against Srilanka, Dhoni who was not the part of the test series led from the front in the ODI series and won the series even before the last ODI was played. When the kangaroos toured India, Dhoni was given the test captainship in the 2nd test when Kumble was not fit to play and again he won the test for India. After a drawn 3rd test at Delhi, where again Kumble was the captain, Kumble decided to stay goodbye to the international cricket and Dhoni was handed the captaincy of test Team. Cont...
