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Dhoni Denied India Contract Amid Retirement Speculations

2020-06-24T06:05:37Z

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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Indian cricket board signalled it is ready for life without Mahendra Singh Dhoni after dropping the long-serving wicketkeeper from its list of centrally contracted players on Thursday. The former captain quit test cricket in 2014 and has not played for India since taking a break after the team's semi-finals exit at the 50-overs World Cup in England last year. Coach Ravi Shastri said earlier this month that Dhoni, who will turn 39 in July, could be considered for this year's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), however, seemed to have made up its mind and Dhoni, who has stonewalled retirement talks in his rare media interactions, was conspicuous by his absence in the 27-player list. In the new list, captain Virat Kohli, opener Rohit Sharma and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah have retained their place in the A+ grade, worth 70 million Indian rupees ($986,923) a year. The 11 players grouped in the A grade with retainers of 50 million rupees include Rishabh Pant, who is seen as Dhoni's successor in limited-overs cricket. Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha was promoted to grade B where he joins opener Mayank Agarwal and three others who will earn 30 million rupees each. The final group comprises eight players with retainers of 10 million rupees for the period from October 2019 to September 2020. Dhoni, [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html] who was in grade A in the previous list, remains India's most successful limited-overs captain who led the team to World Cup victories both in the 20-overs (2007) and 50-overs (2011) formats. Dinesh Karthik, Khaleel Ahmed and Ambati Rayudu also missed out on a contract. Grade A+ - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah Grade A - Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant Grade B - Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal Grade C - Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Manish Pandey, Hanuma Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar ($1 = 70.92 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Christian Radnedge)

Winning Dhoni apos;s Trust Key To Getting India Captaincy - Kohli

2020-06-23T23:33:21Z

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NEW DELHI, May 31 (Reuters) - India captain Virat Kohli believes he landed the job largely because his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni was impressed with his reading of situations in matches. Kohli, [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html] 31, replaced Dhoni as test captain in 2014-15 and took over the limited-overs reins in early 2017, becoming India's all-format leader as well the team's batting mainstay. Fielding in the slips, Kohli had easy access to wicketkeeper Dhoni and he felt their chats in between deliveries earned him the trust of the former skipper. "You start talking to the captain regularly," Kohli told team mate Ravichandran Ashwin in a chat on YouTube. "I was always in MS's ear, standing next to him and saying 'We can do this, we can do that, what do you think?'. "He would deny a lot of things but he would discuss a lot of things as well. I think he got a lot of confidence that I can do this after him. "A large portion of me becoming captain was to do with him observing me for a long period of time. It just can't happen that he goes and the selectors say, 'Okay you become captain'." Leading the national team of a cricket-mad country is one of the toughest jobs in the game but Kohli is enjoying the responsibility. "I looked at it this way -- if I'm getting this opportunity, I need to work as hard as I can, because not many people get this chance," said Kohli, who led India to Under-19 World Cup title in 2008. Kohli led India to the top of the world test rankings in October 2016 where they remained until Australia replaced them this month. India lost in the semi-finals of last year's one-day World Cup in England. "I was always inclined to taking responsibility (but) becoming captain of India was not even in my wildest dreams to be honest," Kohli said. (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Ed Osmond)

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2020-06-23T23:33:19Z

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Ex-skipper and [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html] one-day stalwart Dhoni has not played for India since the World Cup in July India's chief selector has strongly hinted that Mahendra Singh Dhoni's illustrious international career is over, saying Thursday they were "moving. Feel free to surf to my page; [https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html https://inborncricketer.blogspot.com/2020/06/mahendra-singh-dhoni-new-farm-house.html]