Former Captain of India Dhoni revealed the real date of his retirement from international cricket
There is no doubt that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the greatest-ever captain of Team India. Till now, he is the only captain of India to win all three ICC tournaments. Under his captaincy, India has won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2011 ODI World Cup, and the 2013 Champions Trophy. He made his last appearance for India against New Zealand in the 2019 ICC World Cup semi-final in Manchester on July 10, 2019. While Dhoni announced his official retirement on August 15, 2023, the former India captain has revealed that he had decided to hang his boots after India lost to New Zealand in the semi-final, which was played across two days at the Old Trafford.
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Recently, at an event, Dhoni said, “It gets difficult to control your emotions when you have lost a close game. And inside, I had made my entire plan. To me, that was the last day I played cricket for India. I took retirement a year later, but the fact is that that day I had retired. We cricketers are given certain machines and all of that. So every time I went to the trainer, I gave it back to him. He said, 'No, you keep it. And in my mind, I am like, 'How do I tell him I won't be needing or using it anymore'? I didn't want to announce it at that point in time.”