5 decisions by Dhoni and Ganguly that changed the fate of Indian cricket

#2 Dhoni pushing Rohit Sharma as ODI opener

Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni

Rohit Sharma came into the Indian setup with the tag of the most talented player in domestic cricket. He used to bat in the middle order for India in ODIs, and had a very poor start to his ODI career.

Rohit managed to score only two centuries in his first 86 ODI innings.

It was during the 2013 Champions Trophy that Dhoni promoted Rohit as an ODI opener and as they say, the rest is history. He scored a half-century in the very first match, and hasn't looked back since.

Rohit along with Shikhar Dhawan have formed a prolific opening pair for India since 2013. And Rohit’s career graph has gone only upwards since he started opening the innings.

He became only the third Indian to score a double century in ODI history, in the year 2013. He then smashed 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014, which is still the highest ever individual score in ODI cricket.

Rohit is the first and so far only cricketer to score three double centuries in ODIs.