M.S.Dhoni, who won two World Cups for India retires - BSNLEU salutes the hero..

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the dynamic cricketer who took Indian cricket team to new heights, has announced his retirement from International Cricket. Under the stewardship of this "captain cool", India has won two World Cups. M.S. Dhoni’s retirement is unavoidable, since he is aged 39 now. However, the manner in which this great player retired without any send off, is greatly disappointing. 

M.S. Dhoni played last in the World Cup semifinal match, held in July, 2019. Thereafter, M.S. Dhoni was sidelined. He was not given any chance to play thereafter. What is the reason? 

Around July, 2019, the campaign for the Jharkhand State Assembly Election started getting heated up. The BJP, that was ruling the state had become unpopular and did not have any hope to win the election. Hence, BJP wanted to rope in MS Dhoni, “the son of the soil” of Jharkhand, to win the election. They tried in many ways to pursuade M.S. Dhoni to campaign in favour of BJP in the Jharkhand election.

The Deccan Chronicle dated 07.07.2019 reported that, the BJP President, Amit Shah, together with Minister, Piyush Goyal, BJP’s National General Secretary, Saroj Pandey and BJP’s Delhi President, Manoj Tiwari, met M.S. Dhoni at his residence. It was obviously to convince M.S. Dhoni to campaign for BJP in the Jharkhand election.

In October, 2019, Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah, was appointed as the Secretary of the BCCI. Even thereafter, M.S. Dhoni did not agree to use his hard-won reputation in the cricket world, to be exploited by the BJP, to win the Jharkhand assembly election. Ultimately, BJP lost the election and was thrown out of power.

This is the reason why the greatest Captain of Indian cricket, M.S. Dhoni has been ignored and is not given a deserving send-off. However, the Indian people will remain ever grateful to this great player and captain, for electrifying the Indian Cricket team.