MS Dhoni's journey as a future icon in Indian cricket began in 2007, when he captained the national side to a historic ICC World T20 victory. Since then, Dhoni's achievements as a captain have set the bar high for future captains. Yuvraj Singh was taken aback by the team management's decision to put the wicket-keeper batsman in command ahead of the inaugural T20 World Cup, as he was not expecting it.
“It's likely that the seniors felt they needed a break, and no one took the T20 World Cup seriously. I was looking forward to captaining India in the T20 World Cup and then I shocked MS Dhoni was named captain,” Yuvraj said on one of the podcasts.
“Obviously, you have to support whoever becomes captain, whether it was Rahul, whether it was [Sourav] Ganguly, whoever in the future, at the end of the day you want to be a team man, and that's how I was,” Yuvraj added.
Yuvraj and Dhoni went on to form several memorable middle partnerships for India. Yuvraj had smashed Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over in the 2007 World T20 with the Jharkhand-born wicket-keeper batsman at the non-striker's end.