MS Dhoni Reveals The Reason Behind Being The ‘Captain Cool’

MS Dhoni is known as one of the most successful captains in the history of the game. Under his leadership, India have won all major titles. In 2011, India won the 50-over World Cup in India. While in 2013, they won the Champions Trophy in England. Even, though Dhoni led India to the top spot in the Test rankings also. However, throughout his career, fans have called him ‘Captain Cool’. In many crunchy situations, Dhoni never lost his calm nature.

That might helped him to gain some positive results in favour of India. Now, the former India skipper revealed the reason behind his calm and composed nature. While speaking on Livfast. Dhoni asked the audience “How many of you think your bosses are calm?”. Some people raised their hands. Seeing that Dhoni said: “Either they want to make brownie points or they are bosses themselves. Honestly, when we are on the field, we do not want to make any mistakes whether it’s misfielding, dropped catches, or any other mistake.”

“We represent our country, so we would feel worse. But we always try and control our emotions.” – MS Dhoni

Former India skipper added: “I always try and get into their shoes to figure out why a player dropped a catch or why somebody misfielded. Getting angry does not help matters. There are already 40,000 people watching from the stands and crores of people watching the match (on TV, and streaming platforms). I had to see what the reason was (for fielding lapses).”

Dhoni also said that all players always look to give their 100 percent in each match while playing for the country. He added: “If a player is 100 percent attentive on the ground and he misses a catch despite that, I don’t have a problem. Of course, I also want to see how many catches he took during practice before that.. if he had a problem somewhere and if he is making efforts to get better or not. I used to focus on all these aspects instead of focusing on whether a catch was dropped. Maybe we lost a game because of that but the effort was always to try to step into their shoes.”

“I am also human. I would feel the same way inside as you all felt. When you go out and play a match among yourselves, you would feel bad. We represent our country, so we would feel worse. But we always try and control our emotions. Sitting on the outside, it’s always easy to say we should have played in a certain way but it’s not easy. We are representing our country but the opposition players are also representing their country. They are there to play the game and a lot of times, there will be ups and downs.” MS Dhoni concluded.