Many cricketers including MS Dhoni have a superstitious side to them as the veteran, during the Indian Cricket Heroes awards ceremony himself said that he thinks 100 percent cricketers have this superstition oblique routine.
In MS Dhoni was asked about his superstitious side to which he replied, “I think most of the cricketers are superstitious about a lot of things and we call it more routine than anything else. We keep figuring out it was left leg or right leg, I was also somebody like okay when I go inside the field I would take left leg then after a while I got confused whether it was a left leg or right leg?
I am better when I have more options, the moment I have two options I get confused. There was a time when I lost 29 out of 32 or 33 tosses and most of the Test matches were in India. A lot of times I would go and okay I will be like okay I want to change what I have called and it was during IPL and I was like okay I don’t remember what I called in the last game, every time it was new to me. I kept changing a lot of things, routine because it is more controllable at last we can say okay that was something that was in my hand. Whether its a glove, whether its a pad. I think 100 percent cricketers they have this superstition oblique routine, you may call it whatever you want.”
Despite quitting ODI and T20 captaincy in 2017, three years after he retired from Test cricket, Dhoni still remains the cricketing brain behind the Indian team, something even skipper Virat Kohli has acknowledged.