{"id":1195,"date":"2020-08-15T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=34149"},"modified":"2020-08-15T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:25:17","slug":"hours-before-announcing-his-retirement-dhoni-does-what-he-loves-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/hours-before-announcing-his-retirement-dhoni-does-what-he-loves-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Hours before announcing his retirement Dhoni does what he loves best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThanks a lot for ur love and support throughout. From 1929 hrs consider me as Retired.\u201d This post by India\u2019s former cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the whole country by storm.<br \/>\nCricketers from all eras have expressed themselves thanking the formidable captain and praising is sport and sportsmanship. Veteran cricketer Saurav Ganguly said, \u201cIt is the end of an era. What a player he has been for the country and world cricket. His leadership qualities have been something, which will be hard to match, especially in the shorter format of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My best wishes to cricket legend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/msdhoni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@msdhoni<\/a> as he announces retirement.<br \/>It's always been amazing to see the way he played, leading the team to victory. He contributed immensely to many of India's victories in the recent past.<br \/>With his amazing performance, he won millions of hearts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mSeuxZxUvk\">pic.twitter.com\/mSeuxZxUvk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bandi Sanjay Kumar (@bandisanjay_bjp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bandisanjay_bjp\/status\/1294680697949437952?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>But what touched most fans the most was that even jus before announcing his departure from international cricket, Dhoni was practising with his IPL team, getting ready for the tournament which is scheduled in the next month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile\u2026MS Dhoni practising at the Chepauk stadium this evening hours before he made his announcement on international retirement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSDhoni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSDhoni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2oBTKY17q\">pic.twitter.com\/Z2oBTKY17q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Poornima Murali (@nimumurali) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nimumurali\/status\/1294657278285512710?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>He was seen practising with his teammates from the Chennai Super Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the whole country by storm by announcing his retirement but just before that he practised with his IPL team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":24315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69,506],"class_list":["post-1195","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\/1195","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}