Did ‘Captain cool’ really retire in a modest way? Or did he leave behind a memorable aspect?

Article – Prakhar Shukla,

15 august which we celebrate as our independence day, from now this day will also be known as the retirement day of our former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni from International Cricket.

Captain Cool announced his retirement on his social media account at 19:29 hrs 15 aug.
In the field of cricket, he served our nation for nearly 16 years, as his first international debut match was against Bangladesh in Dec, 2004.
When the fans of MSD heard the news of his retirement from their social media account, they just wanted to know that why he has decided to take a retirement from international cricket in such at the  peak of his career.

So the fans started investigating about it, and they found many reasons which makes this retirement special in its own way. Many of them targeted the time 19:29 (which was the time at which MSD posted his retirement post on his social media account) as the abnormality, because this was the exact same time when India lost the world cup semi-final match to New Zealand in 2019.


Many cricket fans also correlate the ‘Great Depression 1929’ to MSD’s retirement at 19:29 on Saturday. While others pointed 1929 as an ‘angel number’ which brings a message that you have completed a major cycle in your life and that has brought closure to projects and ways of doing or ‘being’,

0At last many of the reasons were given by the fans of MSD which points, that this retirement was not an ordinary one. People will always miss the extraordinary Cricketer on pitch.

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