Former Indian team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is counted among the best captains in the world. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has made an important contribution in making Team India win many important matches under his captaincy. Let us tell you that under the captaincy of Dhoni, Team India had won T20 World Cup 2007, ODI World Cup 2011 and Champions Trophy 2013.

In all these tournaments, Mahendra Singh Dhoni had taken some important decisions due to which Team India had won it. Not only this, under the captaincy of Dhoni in 2009, Team India achieved number 1 ranking in Test cricket. Dhoni has captained Team India in 200 ODI matches, in which he has won 110 while the team has had to face defeat in 74. There are many important decisions that Mahendra Singh Dhoni has taken and it has yielded positive results.

With this, today we will tell you five such decisions which Mahendra Singh Dhoni took as captain and which completely changed Indian cricket.

1- The perception of T20 cricket in India has completely changed.

When Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given the responsibility of captaining Team India for the T20 World Cup 2007, he was also very young and all the young players were included in the team. Key players of that time like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid were not included in the squad.

However, despite this, Dhoni showed excellent captaincy and registered victories against strong teams like Pakistan, England, South Africa and Australia. The final match of this fantastic tournament was played against Pakistan, which Team India won by 5 runs.

After this, the Indian Premier League started in 2008 and Chennai Super Kings appointed Mahendra Singh Dhoni as their captain.