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

#5 Ganguly promoting Dhoni in 2005

MS Dhoni during his 183* against Sri Lanka

As mentioned earlier, Ganguly set up his own team. Now India had struggled for a good wicketkeeper batsman ever since Nayan Mongia retired; they tried numerous keepers but most of them failed.

That's when MS Dhoni entered international cricket, in the year 2004. Dhoni was just four innings old in ODI cricket, and wasn't getting adequate opportunities to bat. Hence, Ganguly promoted him to number three against Pakistan.

Dhoni smashed 148 runs and announced himself to world cricket. He then scored a marvelous 183* against Sri Lanka which is still the highest score by a wicketkeeper in ODI history.

After a poor run by India at the 2007 World Cup, Dhoni was appointed as the T20I captain. The young Indian team under MS won the inaugural T20I World Cup in South Africa.

The rest, as they say, is history, as the former Indian captain went to win all the possible trophies in the cricketing world.