Delhi: In Indian cricket, the list of such players is getting longer which believes that ‘Koi’ is responsible for ending their international cricket career ahead of time. Incidentally, most of these are those who played the last time when MS Dhoni was the captain. Irfan Pathan also has a name in this list. For the last few years, he is in discussion for what he could not do more than what he did in international cricket and is advocating his case on every platform himself.

Irfan Pathan’s cricket career

Before advancing this discussion, see how Irfan’s international cricket career was? Double (1105 runs in 29 Tests and 100 wickets) in Tests, double (1544 runs in 120 matches and 173 wickets) in ODIs and 172 runs in 24 T20 Internationals and 28 wickets. He was a bowling all -rounder and this record would call him successful. His complaint was still that he was not the captain’s ‘choice’ and despite the talent and better records, he was dropped from the team. He has also been taking the name of Dhoni directly in this matter. Now he has made this allegation more sensational and says that he did not flatter the captain and was not one of the hookahs for him, so the captain’s favorite could not be made.

Pathan accepted Dhoni as his guilty

He considers MS Dhoni responsible for being dropped from Team India in 2009 and then his cricket graph. Then the coach was Gary Kirsten and quoted him as saying that at first he was excluded on the plea of ​​the need of a batting-all-rounder (who was his brother Yusuf Pathan) instead of the bowling-all-rounder (who was Irfan). When asked the coach for not playing continuously, his reply was that some decisions are out of his control and the last playing XI selects the captain.

It is the responsibility of the captain to choose the team for better and the right team. Which captain would want to choose a team who cannot win the match, but in the case of Dhoni, the list of ‘angry’ players from him is very long on the test of this choice. Many say that they are forced to retire ahead of time, while Irfan and Sreesanth take the name of Dhoni to end their cricket career. The interesting thing is that Irfan did not give any explanation about his cricket career, whatever he has been saying till now or the statement of the hookah, Dhoni. It is not that Kirsten will not know the mention of his name but he is also silent.

Irfan continued inside the team

When Irfan Pathan first entered the team, he was only 19 years old and called him ‘bundle of talent’. Playing international cricket in all three formats and all -rounder double in two formats is not a minor record. Even then, he was dropped from the first Test and then from the ODI team. In 2009, getting out of the ODI team was a major setback for him and got out in such a way that the next three years could not play in this format.

Even then there was no shortage in hard work and returned in 2012, but by then new paces like Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma had come, the team had a tough competition for everywhere and in such a situation, Irfan only got 12 more ODIs. After that his international career gradually ended. Retired in 2020.

Since retiring, he has been speaking about the situation of being dropped from the team. Nobody is stopping them from saying their words. The answer to this question is also important as to why most of them are even more angry when MS Dhoni was the captain.