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MS Dhoni Suresh Raina Retirement: India is celebrating its 78th Independence Day today. Everyone is making the skies resonate with the chants of Bharat Mata ki Jai. Then in 2020, Indians were heartbroken. On this day at 7.29 pm, when former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket, millions of his fans were disappointed.
Dhoni's Instagram post broke the hearts of millions of fans. After Dhoni's retirement, left-handed batsman Suresh Raina also announced his retirement. Both used to play for Chennai Super Kings, Raina has revealed the reason for retiring together.
Why did Dhoni and Raina retire together on 15 August?
Suresh Raina had said in an interview last year that Dhoni and I have played many matches together. I consider myself lucky that I got a chance to play with him in India and CSK. I got a lot of love, I come from Ghaziabad and Dhoni from Ranchi. First I played for Dhoni, later played for the country. This is our connection. We have played many finals, won the World Cup. He is a great leader and a great person. We had already decided that we would retire on August 15. Dhoni's jersey number was 7 and my jersey number was 3. Which when added makes 73. India was celebrating 73 years of independence. So we chose this auspicious day for retirement.
Cricket career of Dhoni and Raina
Dhoni has played a total of 90 Tests, 350 ODIs and 98 T20Is for India. He scored 4876 runs in Tests, 10773 runs in ODIs and 1617 runs in T20Is. Dhoni has scored 6 centuries and 33 half-centuries in ODIs, 10 centuries and 73 half-centuries in ODIs and 2 half-centuries in T20Is. Suresh Raina has played a total of 18 Tests, 226 ODIs and 78 T20 matches for India.