Not Sachin or Kohli! 'We should be proud that he was born in our country'

Former Indian cricket opener Murali Vijay has praised erstwhile skipper MS Dhoni's enduring bequest successful cricket. He emphasised Dhoni's earthy enactment qualities and instinctive decision-making, peculiarly highlighting the memorable 2007 T20 World Cup last implicit fixed to Joginder Sharma.MS Dhoni, who present exclusively plays successful the Indian Premier League (IPL), volition proceed with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for the 2026 season. Murali Vijay's transportation with Dhoni spans 8 IPL seasons astatine CSK nether his leadership.

Vijay shared his thoughts astir Dhoni during an quality connected Taruwar Kohli's YouTube channel, wherever helium discussed Dhoni's hitting acumen and intelligence fortitude."Dhoni is earthy and precise unique. Those personalities you cannot replicate.

Anybody cannot travel and bash what helium is doing. The mode helium has dominated and taken the game, helium was a precise beardown person. The mode helium launched those sixes, I don't deliberation anyone other got that scope arsenic a right-hander," the erstwhile batter said. "He gave that past implicit to Joginder, and we won it. There whitethorn not person been logic arsenic Harbhajan had an implicit arsenic a senior. But it won america the cupful arsenic helium did thing retired of the box. We each should beryllium arrogant that helium was calved successful our country."

Murali Vijay's planetary cricket travel began successful 2008 erstwhile helium stepped successful for Gautam Gambhir successful the last Test against Australia successful Nagpur. His vocation encompassed 87 planetary matches crossed formats, including 61 Tests, 17 ODIs, and 9 T20Is.His last planetary quality was against Australia successful Perth successful 2018. He played his past home matches for Tamil Nadu successful 2019, with his last nonrecreational crippled coming successful the IPL successful September 2020.Throughout his planetary career, Vijay accumulated 4,490 runs with an mean of 34.80 and a onslaught complaint of 48.48. His achievements see 12 centuries and 16 fifties. In his IPL career, helium scored 2,619 runs successful 106 matches astatine an mean of 25.93.