Dhoni should continue as captain till next World Cup: Virender Sehwag

Former Indian opening batsman Virender Sehwag has got right behind current Indian skipper for the limited-overs’ format MS Dhoni, stating that the latter should continue as skipper until the 2019 World Cup.

Sehwag, who was a part of the side that clinched the World Cup in 2011 at home played under Dhoni and knows fully well that the 35-year old wicketkeeper-batsman is the best person to lead the team until forward.

Sehwag while talking to a TV news channel has backed India’s limited overs’ skipper and has said that “He should continue as captain till the next World Cup. If he does so, he can leave behind a good World Cup team.”

He further added, “And if he retires… you can imagine, even now when Dhoni is there, people have to think about who should bat at 5th, 6th, and 7th positions. If Dhoni is not there, the 5th, 6th, and 7th slots will become absolutely free and you cannot expect somebody to finish the match properly.”

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Sehwag said, “We lost because of the team, and not because of the captain because neither our batting nor bowling was up to the mark. For how long will Dhoni alone win the match for us?”

He further added, “Ask anybody sitting here in the audience whether my statement was correct or not. My statement was not wrong, my statement was incorrectly portrayed or projected. I was not making a jibe at Dhoni. What I said was: do not give the entire credit to the captain, give credit to the team too,” Sehwag said.

Viru said, “No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India’s best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests (No. 1 ranking), ODIs and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good, others should also get credit for winning the Cups.”

Justifying his above statements Sehwag said, “I made 175 runs in the first match, and Dhoni made 92 runs in the last match. In between, I performed well in one or two matches, and Dhoni couldn’t perform well in any. Gautam Gambhir made runs and Yuvraj Singh won Man of the Series. And if tomorrow somebody says, we won the World Cup because of Yuvraj, will anybody agree?”

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