{"id":580,"date":"2020-07-01T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:20:26","slug":"michael-hussey-lauds-virat-kohlis-attitude-relationship-with-ms-dhoni-post-gaining-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/michael-hussey-lauds-virat-kohlis-attitude-relationship-with-ms-dhoni-post-gaining-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hussey lauds Virat Kohli\u2019s attitude, relationship with MS Dhoni post gaining captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December, 2014, right after drawing the Melbourne third test of the 4 match test series against Australia, MS Dhoni announced retirement from the format. The post was then given to Virat Kohli who has proved to be a formidable, if not better captain in the test format for Indian Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, in 2017, MS Dhoni provided Virat Kohli with the limited overs armband. Despite MS Dhoni, being the most successful Captain all three ICC Trophies, the transition of hierarchy has proved to be more than smooth.<\/p>\n<p>During this time, not only has Virat Kohli made India the most formidable and consistent Test Side, being number one from<span style=\"text-transform: initial\"> 2016-2019, but also performed splendidly in the limited overs formats, unfortunately falling just short a few times.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think you got to give a lot of kudos to Virat Kohli for having someone like MS Dhoni still in the team: Hussey <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n6wLnSUHlI\">https:\/\/t.co\/n6wLnSUHlI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 India Today Sports (@ITGDsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ITGDsports\/status\/1278217571129409536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Michael Hussey, was quoted as saying \u2018I think that\u2019s where you need to tip your hat to Virat and so you know he\u2019s obviously got the personality to say \u2018no, no I would like this guy around. I can learn from this guy, and he\u2019s going to help me get down the better skipper and obviously have a better team\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr.Cricket lauds Virat for having not been threatened by MS personality and records. Instead, he believes Virat\u2019s aggressive personality against MS Dhoni\u2019s cool has provided the Indian team with the perfect balance. Michael Hussey is impressed by the cooperation between MS and Virat. This includes the aspect of Virat being open to learning continuously from a legend, years his senior.<\/p>\n<p>With Virat at the helm, Rohit Sharma as his deputy, and experience in the form of MS Dhoni, Indian Cricket seems to be in the right hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, 2014, right after drawing the Melbourne third test of the 4 match test series against Australia, MS Dhoni\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":23719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-m-s-dhoni"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}