Published: Apr 01, 2016, 02:50 AM (IST)
Edited: Apr 01, 2016, 06:33 AM (IST)
India T20 and ODI Captain MS Dhoni is often known for his funny replies and comments in his press conferences. After India’s loss against West Indies by 7 wickets in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2016, a journalist from Cricket.com.au was on the receiving end of Dhoni’s witty response when asked about his retirement from limited overs cricket. Sam Ferris, said he never thought some thing like this could happen and he would share the table with Dhoni and get popular on News channels. He thought it was a correct question too, keeping in mind Dhoni’s shocking Test retirement in Australia. FULL CRICKET SCORECARD: India vs West Indies , Live Score, 2nd Semi-Final match, ICC T20 World Cup 2016
“If you had told me that by the end of the night, after watching a stunning West Indies run chase in the World T20 semi-final, that I would share the press conference table with India captain MS Dhoni and end up on every TV news bulletin in the country, I would have flat out called you a lunatic. I thought it was a pretty standard question to be fair. When Dhoni shocked the world with his Test retirement out of nowhere after the 2014 Boxing Day Test at the MCG, it caught everybody off-guard.” he wrote.
Ferris wrote that he never asked when Dhoni would retire. He perhaps wanted to know of how much long he wanted to play for. “For the record, I never asked if he was going to retire, just how keen he was to play on. I’m not trying to retire one of the greats. I even prefaced it with “You’ve achieved pretty much everything in cricket” to soften the blow and try to make me not look like some blood-thirsty mosquito looking for a headline (which I most definitely was).”
He was invited onto the table after his question and felt honored. “Who am I to turn down India’s greatest-ever captain?” – he wrote.
When Dhoni asked him whether he wants him to retire, he said – “Ahh, no, that’s what I was going to ask you”.
A few more questions followed and Ferris was back to his seat. But in a minute or two he said his phone started showing plenty of twitter notifications and he was a hit among the twitter audience. “Shortly after my phone is going nuts with Twitter notifications and I’m told I’m now ‘trending’. No one has ever called me trendy. Ever.”, he wrote on www.cricket.com.au.
