Is MS Dhoni Going to Announce Retirement Today? Twitter Trends Say So

Published 10/29/2019, 1:19 AM EDT

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Apart from Team India’s stunning form in recent times across formats, one more thing thing has been in the news – MS Dhoni and his future. Be it cricket professionals, experts or fans everyone started speculating whether he is going to announce his retirement anytime soon. Amid all this, a simple hashtag with two words were enough tocreate a panic on Tuesday.

The hashtag #MSDhoniretires created by Dhoni followers overnight for a debate on the former Indian captain’s retirement rumours. The hashtag was cerainly for his much talked about retirement plans, which he hasn’t done yet in public.

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Will MS Dhoni announce his retirement or not that should be left on him only. Newly-elected BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, although have said that he will talk to the selectors as well as MS Dhoni before taking a call on his future, chief selector MSK Prasad said they are very clear with the priorities and they are looking to move ahead.

“We are moving on, we are very clear. Post World Cup we have been clear. We started backing (Rishabh) Pant and wanted to see him do well. He may not have had the best of matches but we are clear, we are focusing on him only,” MSK Prasad said after announcing the India squad for the upcoming series against Bangladesh.

“We’re looking at younger options after the World Cup, so you can understand our thought process. We definitely had a chat with Dhoni and he also endorses our view of backing youngsters,” he added.

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MS Dhonilast played for India in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup against New Zealand at the Old Trafford in Manchester. Despite his half-century, India failed to win the game and since then, he has not taken a part in any of the series.

But he has some other ideas in mind for sure as he was recently seen in the gym and was seen doing pullups to be fully fit before returning to the International circuit again. As per the reports of the New Indian Express reports on October 24, he will be training with the Jharkhand U-23 teams in Ranchi to get back to full fitness.The training camp will start from October 31.

However, MS Dhoni’s retirement speculations made the fans crazy on social media and with several tweets from the Twitterati, the topic become the number one trending in India. The #MSDhoniretires was, however, the second most talked or tweeted about topic on Twitter yesterday.

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