{"id":1187,"date":"2020-08-15T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=34067"},"modified":"2020-08-15T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:22:13","slug":"what-youve-done-for-the-country-will-always-remain-in-everyones-heart-kohli-on-his-mentor-dhonis-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/what-youve-done-for-the-country-will-always-remain-in-everyones-heart-kohli-on-his-mentor-dhonis-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What you\u2019ve done for the country will always remain in everyone\u2019s heart\u2019: Kohli on his mentor Dhoni\u2019s retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian Cricket team captain MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday sending cricket fans across the nation in a frenzy. Virat Kohli, the current captain paid his tribute to Dhoni via tweet, saying that the respect and warmth he received from Dhoni will always remain in his heart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every cricketer has to end his journey one day, but still when someone you've gotten to know so closely announces that decision, you feel the emotion much more. What you've done for the country will always remain in everyone's heart\u2026\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0CuwjwGiiS\">pic.twitter.com\/0CuwjwGiiS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1294662879703048192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kohli started his international career under Dhoni\u2019s captaincy and became the vice-captain and later the captain under his guidance. The two have shared excellent partnership and gained many wins for the country and always defended each other. Kohli in his tweet said that the world has seen Dhoni\u2019s achievements but he has seen the person and that is why it is emotional to see Dhoni announce his retirement decision. He also added that what Dhoni has achieved for the country will remain in everyone\u2019s heart. Speculations about Dhoni\u2019s retirement has been around since India\u2019s exit in 2019 World Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli expressed his gratitude and bid adieu to Dhoni by saying, \u201cThanks for everything skip, I tip my hat to you.\u201d MS Dhoni has played 538 international games for India, scoring 17,266 runs from them and won the 2011 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian Cricket team captain MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday sending cricket fans across the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":24316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69,506],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-ms-dhoni-retirement"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}