MS Dhoni made his worldwide debut towards Bangladesh in 2004.© AFP
Former India chief selector Kiran Extra, who performed an enormous position in quick monitoring MS Dhoni into the Indian facet, mentioned that it was of venture that the choice committee took which paid off and he’s blissful that he took that probability with Dhoni and picked him to play for the nationwide workforce. Extra, whereas answering a query from West Indian fast-bowling nice Curtly Ambrose throughout a YouTube present referred to as ‘The Curtly and Karishma Present’, mentioned that India had been searching for a wicketkeeper-batsman after the 2003 World Cup during which Rahul Dravid had stored wickets and the choice panel determined to go along with the 23-year-old attacking batsman.
“My colleague noticed him (Dhoni) first, then I went and noticed him. I particularly flew down and noticed him get 130 runs out of the workforce’s complete of 170. He smashed everybody. We needed him to play within the (Duleep Trophy 2004) finals as a wicket-keeper. That is after we had a number of debate with Sourav Ganguly and Deep Dasgupta. It took about ten days to inform Sourav and his selector to ask Deep to not preserve wickets, and to let MS Dhoni preserve wickets,” Extra mentioned.
Dhoni repaid the belief proven in him by the selectors as he smashed the North Zone bowlers to all components of the bottom in Mohali.
“Dhoni stored wickets, he smashed Ashish Nehra and all of the bowlers from North Zone after which we despatched him to Kenya for the triangular collection involving India A, Pakistan A and Kenya.
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“MS scored about 600 runs and after that relaxation his historical past. Dhoni had all of the package deal to develop into a match-winner. It was solely a matter of time earlier than all of them clicked collectively,” Extra added.
“It is like playing, you might want to gamble on the best horse. We gambled on the best horse and that day he gained the race for us. I’m blissful sitting at dwelling and I give a number of credit score to my fellow selectors as nicely,” Extra concluded.
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