5 cricket players whose careers were saved by MS Dhoni

#4 Cheteshwar Pujara

Cheteshwar Pujara, after a stupendous domestic season in 2010, was given a maiden call in the national squad. He did attract the selectors with few good innings but could not fulfill the expectations of the management.

That is when MS Dhoni backed Pujara and saved him from getting dropped. MS Dhoni saw that solidity in Pujara which he saw in Rahul Dravid and thus wanted him in his team. To be fair enough, MS Dhoni regarded him as a pure Test match player and never considered him for the limited overs squad.

Today Pujara is the most reliable test match player for Team India, and in 68 test matches, he has amassed 5,426 runs.

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#3 Ravindra Jadeja

Jadeja and Dhoni

Ravindra Jadeja did not have an illustrious start to his career. After the 2010 T-20 World Cup, where Jadeja and some other Indian players were involved in an incident at a St. Lucia pub shortly after the team was knocked out of the competition, he didn't know what lay ahead of him.

It was just then that MS Dhoni backed him and revived his career. Under Dhoni's captaincy Jadeja flowered and went on to become the number one Test bowler and an all rounder as well.