MS Dhoni coming to US, but hard to convince him for T20 World Cup: Rohit Sharma

The legendary player MS Dhoni is no longer an active international player. The CSK star pacer announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket in August 2020, a year after he had last played an international fixture.

Team India captain Rohit Sharma revealed that he can easily convince Dinesh Karthik for the wicketkeeper’s role for the upcoming T20 World Cup while joking about getting MS Dhoni back into the senior national team.

The IPL 2024 has been looked at as a platform audition for the World Cup, which will begin within a week after the final of the IPL i.e. June 1 in the USA and West Indies.

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Rohit while speaking on the Club Prairie Fire podcast, heaped praise on MS Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik, lauding their form in IPL 2024. In his style, Rohit joked it could be hard to convince Dhoni for the much-discussed wicketkeeper spot.

“I was quite impressed, quite impressed, especially with Dinesh. The way he batted a couple of nights back. Dhoni, as well, came to play 4 balls, and made a huge impact, with those 20 runs. That was eventually the difference in the game,” Rohit said in the podcast.

MS Dhoni continued his love affair with Wankhede Stadium, which was possibly his last competitive cricket at the iconic venue. While ruling out a rather ‘sick and tired’ Dhoni, Rohit affirmed Karthik’s chances for a place in the T20 World Cup.

“It’ll be hard to convince MSD for sure to come to the West Indies I guess. He is sick and tired. He is coming to the US though to do something else. He is into golf, so he will play golf I guess. DK will be easy to convince I guess,” Rohit said.

Rohit’s stump-mic remark went viral as he engaged in an on-field banter with Karthik. He was impressed with Karthik’s fine knock for RCB and teased him for making it into India’s squad for the T20 World Cup.

Rohit revealed that he was trying to put pressure on Karthik who played a 23-ball 53 to guide RCB to a fighting total of 196 runs.

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“I was just trying to put some pressure on him. Eventually, after the game against SRH, he went and spoke after the SRH game. I think that some captain was asking if I was ready for the World Cup, this is the answer from me,” Rohit said.

Dinesh Karthik has been juggling between commentary duties and playing franchise cricket for RCB. He has been in great form lately and recently played a valiant knock of 83 runs from 35 balls to help RCB chase down the highest ever IPL total of 287 runs, put up by SRH.