The Australia reversal, in particular, made the country wide selectors ponder appointing a brand new ODI captain for the tri-collection that turned into to observe. However, that is while Srinivasan is assumed to have vetoed the sort of pass via way of means of the selectors.
Under the BCCI's charter on the time, each appointment needed to be ratified via way of means of the board president. Therefore Srinivasan turned into inside his rights to intrude on this matter. It isn't always clear, however, whether or not any other captain turned into picked via way of means of the selectors and vetoed via way of means of Srinivasan (as the guideline of thumb specified); his remark simplest says he ensured Dhoni turned into retained as captain.
"This turned into 2011. India had received the World Cup. And [then] in Australia, we failed to do properly withinside the Tests. So, one of the selectors desired to eliminate Dhoni because the ODI captain," Srinivasan advised the Indian Express. "The factor is, how do you eliminate him because the ODI captain?
"He had received the World Cup [in April 2011]. The selectors had now no longer even notion of who could be his replacement. There turned into a dialogue and then [before the formal meeting] and I stated there has been no manner wherein he could now no longer be a player [captain].
"In fact, it turned into a holiday. I turned into gambling golf. I got here back. Sanjay Jagdale turned into the [BCCI] secretary at that point and he stated, 'Sir, they [selectors] are refusing to pick the captain. They will take him [Dhoni] withinside the team [as a player].' I got here and stated that MS Dhoni will be the captain. I exercised all my authority because the [BCCI] president."
Srinivasan's remarks simply verify what turned into broadly speculated on the time. That the BCCI president, who additionally befell to be the proprietor of the IPL franchise (Chennai Super Kings) Dhoni captained, intervened to save you a captaincy change.
There turned into additionally hypothesis that this additionally brought about Mohinder Amarnath being sacked as a selector while he turned into tipped to take over as chairman of the choice committee from Kris Srikkanth. Amarnath were vocal in his selection to oust Dhoni as captain on the time. Sandeep Patil, Amarnath's former India team-mate, subsequently took over.
Srinivasan has additionally left the door open for Dhoni to play for CSK for so long as he wants. Dhoni introduced his worldwide retirement on August 15 from Chennai, in which he's presently concerned in a preparatory camp with the alternative Indian gamers earlier than flying out to Dubai for the 2020 IPL.
"He can play for CSK so long as he wants," Srinivasan stated. "At present, permit CSK win the IPL. One of the motives for CSK's fulfillment beneathneath Dhoni is that he in no way thinks past the match. He in no way digresses. And we are able to observe the identical coverage now."
Earlier this month, Kasi Viswanathan, the Super Kings CEO, stated they assume Dhoni to play for the franchise for any other years at least.
