Ex-India cricketer blames MS Dhoni for ending his career – ‘It was captain’s name’ | Cricket News

Chennai: Chennai Super Kings’ captain MS Dhoni throughout an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings, on the MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai. (PTI Photo/R Senthilkumar) *** Local Caption ***

Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has blamed MS Dhoni for bringing an finish to his cricketing career.Pathan performed 29 Tests, 120 ODIs and 24 T20Is, claiming 301 worldwide wickets earlier than retiring in 2020.He burst onto the worldwide scene in 2003 as a teen, drawing comparisons with Wasim Akram. At his peak, he might swing the brand new ball prodigiously and contribute important runs down the order, incomes comparisons with Kapil Dev. His hat-trick towards Pakistan within the 2006 Karachi Test stays historic. A match-winning spell within the 2007 T20 World Cup ultimate cemented his popularity as a big-match participant.But from 2009 onwards, his place within the staff got here into query, whereas his elder brother Yusuf Pathan was most popular for his hard-hitting skills.

“In 2009, Gary Kirsten told me that I was playing well but Yusuf was better, and the team would go with him. We were in New Zealand then. Earlier, my brother and I had won a match in Sri Lanka from a losing position. We needed 60 off 29 balls with seven wickets down, and we still won. If it had been someone else, I don’t think that player would have been dropped for at least a year,” Pathan stated on Lallantop.“In New Zealand, I was dropped from all five matches. I asked Gary the reason I wasn’t getting chances, and what I could improve. He gave me two reasons. First, that some things were not in his hands. When I asked who was calling the shots, he said he couldn’t tell me.“The Playing XI was picked by the captain. This was Dhoni’s call—that Irfan is not needed now. That was the captain’s prerogative.“If you are in the squad, you should be looking to play. As a player, I believed I should have played, and every player should think like that. My brother was a batting all-rounder and I was a bowling all-rounder. We both could have played.”