Kapil Dev won the World Cup in 1983, and after 28 years, MS Dhoni regained the trophy in 2011. In addition to the 50-over World Cup, Dhoni also managed to win the 2007 T20 World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy title. Former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s father, Yograj, claimed that both Dhoni and Kapil Dev, alongside Bishan Singh Bedi, treat people like “shit.”
“I talk about Bishan Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni. I can talk about people whom I have been with. They have treated people like shit. Jo galat hai wo galat hai. Two wrongs cannot make one right. I say this openly, that our cricketers and team were destroyed by our captain,” said Yograj Inside Sport.
Irfan Pathan, MS Dhoni, hookah controversy
Irfan Pathan has wondered out loud on X (former known as Twitter) if it is a “fan war” or a “PR lobby” that is responsible for a turn of phrase he had used in an interview a few years back being taken literally now and going viral on social media. Pathan said that the video has surfaced with a “twisted context” to his statement and also joked about it some other posts on X as well. “Half decade old video surfacing NOW with a twisted context to the Statement. Fan war? PR lobby?” says Pathan in his tweet on X.
The clip in question is from an interview he had given to Sports Tak in May 2020 where he was speaking about him getting dropped from the Indian team in 2008 while MS Dhoni was captain. Pathan accused Dhoni of favouritism and says in Hindi in the clip that he doesn’t have a habit of going to someone’s room and setting up their hookah for them, which is what was taken literally and went viral on social media on Wednesday.
Yograj, giving his take on the whole incident, said: “It is not only about Irfan Pathan. You see Gautam Gambhir speaking about it. Virender Sehwag openly said about it as well. Harbhajan Singh spoke about how he was put out of the team like a fly. You should arrange a jury on why he did what he did. MS Dhoni doesn’t want to answer. One who doesn’t want to answer has a guilty conscience.”
