AB de Villiers makes massive MS Dhoni revelation on birthday: 'It was very difficult to ...'

South African cricket fable AB de Villiers commemorated erstwhile India skipper MS Dhoni's 44th day by remembering him arsenic an intimidating hostile with a singular career.MS Dhoni's planetary cricket travel was marked by his captaincy occurrence successful winning 3 large ICC tournaments - the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup, and 2013 Champions Trophy, alongside assorted bilateral and continental achievements."It was precise hard to program for MS Dhoni. When helium was connected song, thing worked. Later on, we discovered that sometimes you could get distant with wide deliveries with the seam, particularly successful the backmost extremity of his innings. We tried it. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't," De Villiers said connected JioHotstar's ‘7 Shades of MS Dhoni’.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!"The guy's people - not galore crippled plans worked against him.

I person a batch of respect for him and his achievements passim his career. He was decidedly an intimidating subordinate to play against. What a fantastic vocation helium had."Former India selector and cricketer Kiran More shared his archetypal impressions of Dhoni, noting the unsocial spark helium saw successful the wicketkeeper-batsman."At that time, if you looked astatine our batting order, you had Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman - each these players.

Yuvraj Singh was besides there. But I felt we needed an assertive player, who could travel and deed fours and sixes, utilise the Powerplay, marque runs successful 15 overs, and besides successful the mediate overs," helium added."We were looking for idiosyncratic who could deed sixes and boundaries — that benignant of assertive subordinate wasn't visible. See, the apical players were each of 1 mold. But MS Dhoni's spot — that power-hitting — we were looking for a antithetic benignant of subordinate similar that, to equilibrium the batting order.

"If you privation to marque 100 successful 10 overs, you can. We gave galore wicketkeepers chances, but the spark we saw successful Dhoni — I felt this lad is thing special, thing different. We were taking chances. He was raw. From there, we picked him and gave him a chance."Dhoni was precocious inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame alongside Hashim Amla, Matthew Hayden, Graeme Smith, Daniel Vettori, Sana Mir, and Sarah Taylor.His planetary vocation statistic amusement 17,266 runs crossed formats, 829 dismissals arsenic wicketkeeper, and 538 planetary matches played."It is an honour to beryllium named successful the ICC Hall of Fame, which recognises the contributions of cricketers crossed generations and from each implicit the world. To person your sanction remembered alongside specified all-time greats is simply a fantastic feeling. It is thing that I volition cherish forever," Dhoni remarked connected achieving this feat.Although retired from planetary cricket, Dhoni continues to play successful the Indian Premier League with Chennai Super Kings, starring them to 5 titles.