Retirement or not, BCCI website lists MS Dhoni as India captain

The profile of current India captain, Virat Kohli is, however, updated and the BCCI website lists him as the captain.

Before you start treating this story as another one of those fake ones, let us clarify. Dhoni is still the captain in BCCI’s official website.

While it is a clear case of negligence, such an error from one of the richest boards in the world is unacceptable.

“That’s rubbish. MS is not going anywhere.MS wanted to show the ball to Bharat Arun. He wanted to show him the wear and tear the ball had endured, to get a general idea of what the conditions were like,” Shastri explained the whole scenario.

Retirement or not, BCCI seems to be working at a different tangent altogether. The board has appointed Dhoni as captain of the Indian limited overs side.

Dhoni generally collects a souvenir (stump in most cases) after India’s series win but never did he collect one after the result went against India. That was exactly why speculations were ripe about Dhoni drawing the curtains on his career.

The reports could not have been brushed aside easily considering the struggle of Dhoni in England series, where he scored a strike rate of a 62 in the two innings he batted where the need of the hour was at least a run a ball.

Dhoni, for his part, did not make any announcement till Thursday morning and Team India head coach Ravi Shastri came out to his defence and even rubbished the talks of his retirement.

Social media was abuzz with speculations about MS Dhoni’s retirement after Dhoni collected the match-ball from the umpires in the third ODI, which India lost and conceded the series 2-1 to hosts England.