‘DID DISCUSS REMOVING DHONI’

NEW DELHI: Former chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil on Wednesday said that during his tenure there were discussions on removing Mahendra Singh Dhoni from captaincy

Updated on: Sep 22, 2016, 06:23:26 IST

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NEW DELHI: Former chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil on Wednesday said that during his tenure there were discussions on removing Mahendra Singh Dhoni from captaincy but his retirement from Tests was a shocker for them.

Patil also clarified that there was no truth to the perception that Dhoni was instrumental in getting rid of some of the seniors in the Indian team like Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh. “We had a brief discussion about it (removing Dhoni from captaincy) on a few occasions. We wanted to experiment by handing the baton (to somebody) but we thought the time was not right with World Cup (2015) around the corner,” Patil said. “We felt that the new captain should be given some time to set things right. Keeping that in mind in the World Cup, we had gone with Dhoni.”

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