Veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has stated that former India captain MS Dhoni has taught people the art of letting go. He also said that Dhoni retired from Tests when he was about to reach 100 games and 5,000 runs in the longest format. Dhoni also retired from the longer format of the game after the third game of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2014-15. He scored 4,876 runs at an average of 38.09 in 90 Tests.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “If you have to learn anything, there cannot be a better example than Dhoni. The easiest thing in life is to hold on to something you get and not let it go. That’s what we all do. The most difficult thing is to let go. It becomes even more difficult to let go if you are a superstar.”
“However, he let it go easily. He was the Test captain. No one was saying anything to him, but in the middle of the series, he said, ‘I am done.’ He had played 90 Test matches. He had reached very close to 5,000 runs. Neither the thought of 100 Tests nor scoring 5,000 Test runs came to his mind,” he further stated.
Meanwhile, Aakash Chopra also shared that Rohit Sharma has also given everyone a life lesson and led by example.
‘He has taught that whatever he wants his team to do, he would do that himself first’ – Aakash Chopra on Rohit Sharma
“Don’t do as I say, do as I do. It’s said that leaders lead by example. They lead from the front, and we get to learn that from Rohit Sharma. He has taught that whatever he wants his team to do, he would do that himself first. I will put the team before me, and then, automatically, the entire team is going to follow the path,” he said.
“He did that in white-ball cricket. He said it’s not about Rohit Sharma anymore. It’s about where I want to take Indian cricket. He said he would walk the talk. Only talk used to happen before that. He said he would be the brand ambassador,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
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