Dinesh Karthik urges BCCI to retire MS Dhoni’s No.7 jersey

Even though Dinesh Karthik was the biggest victim of MS Dhoni’s remarkable rise in Indian cricket - the Tamil Nadu wicket-keeper was reduced to nothing but a domestic stalwart for the majority of his career - the duo share a great deal of respect for each other. Karthik has always been an unabashed fan of MS Dhoni and now that the latter has retired from international cricket, the KKR skipper urged the BCCI to retire Dhoni's No.7 jersey forever.

The duo's friendship dates back to the early 2000s, when they played against each other many times in Duleep and Deodhar Trophy, with Bihar failing to cross past the East Zone leg, where Bengal and Odisha were the two strongest sides. However, once Dhoni did what he did in Nairobi, chances for Karthik, a perennial underperformer at the international stage, became really slim. However, the Tamil Nadu man retained a deep credibility that Dhoni acknowledged many times during his captaincy tenure.