Indian cricket team former star opener Gautam Gambhir believes the reason why veteran wicket-keeper batsman MS Dhoni managed to be so successful is that he was lucky in the way that he inherited teams consisting of great players when he took over the captaincy. ALSO READ | 31,258: ICC Shares Rahul Dravid's Iconic Test Record
Modern-day cricketing great Mahendra Singh Dhoni has defied all odds in his captaincy to achieve great success in two major ICC events -- the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 World Cup wins.
Seven years ago, Mahendra Singh Dhoni defeated England in ICC Champions Trophy ODI final to become the first captain in the world to have won all ICC trophies.
"The reason Dhoni became such a successful captain in Test cricket is because of Zaheer Khan. He was a big blessing that Dhoni got, for which credit goes to Sourav Ganguly. According to me, Zaheer has been India's best world-class bowler," Gambhir said on the Star Sports show Cricket Connected.
"Dhoni has been a very lucky captain because he got an amazing team in every format. Captaining 2011 World Cup team was very easy for Dhoni because we had players like Sachin, Sehwag, Myself, Yuvraj, Yusuf, Virat, so he had got the best teams, while Ganguly had to work very hard for it, and as a result, Dhoni won so many trophies," said Gambhir.
Amid the ever-growing speculations over Dhoni's retirement, his manager and childhood friend Mihir Diwakar quashed all such rumours saying that retirement is the last thing on Dhoni's mind.
Talking to PTI, Diwakar said, "Being friends, we don't talk about his cricket. But looking at him, he's not all thinking about retirement.
"He is very determined to play the IPL. He has worked really hard for this. If you remember he was there in Chennai one month in advance before everything was shut down," he pointed out.
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