Tag: Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni

Virat Kohli Story: Virat Kohli is slowly moving towards the end of his career. After winning the 2024 T20 World Cup title, Kohli announced his retirement from T20 International. Kohli's retirement surprised everyone. This time's T20 World Cup was different for Kohli. Kohli scored only 75 runs in the matches played before the final and then he played an important innings of 76 runs in the final. Pakistani batsman Umar Akmal narrated an interesting anecdote on Kohli's poor form. Akmal told that when MS Dhoni was asked to drop Kohli from the team, he agreed to give up captaincy. This was in 2012-13 when Pakistan toured India. Akmal narrated this incident on the show 'Haarna Mana Hai'. Akmal said, "I was having dinner with MS Dhoni in 2013. Shoaib Malik, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina were also present. Kohli was going through a similar phase. Then the Indian team manager came to Dhoni and asked him to drop Kohli from the last ODI." Akmal further said, "Dhoni replied that I have not gone home for 6 months. Why don't you book my ticket along with Virat Kohli. Then the manager told Dhoni that you can play whoever you want." Akmal was completely shocked to hear this answer from Dhoni. Umar further said that Dhoni said to him, "Virat is our best batsman. If he fails in 3-4 matches then why should we drop him." Virat had said goodbye to T20 International immediately after winning the title Let us tell you that soon after Team India won the T20 World Cup 2024 title, Kohli announced his retirement from T20 International. He had said that this was his last T20 World Cup and he also played his last T20 match for India. Read this too... Watch: Virat Kohli, stranded in Hurricane Beryl, remembered his wife, immediately picked up the phone and did this, video goes viral Source link

When MS Dhoni asked to drop Virat Kohli from Indian cricket team in 2012-13 IND vs PAK series Pakistan Umar Akmal shared story