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Manoj Tiwari blamed M.S Dhoni for Destroying his career




Indian former cricketer and West Bengal current state minister Manoj Tiwari announced his retirement from all the formats of cricket on Sunday.



At the time of the phrase meet office retirement Manoj Tiwari alleged Indian former captain M.S Dhoni for dropping him from the Indian squad and not giving him the chance to be again capped for India.


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Manoj Tiwari directly named Dhoni for destroying his career.



Manoj Tiwari played for Bengal almost for two decades and represented India in 12 ODI and 3 T20I games. Manoj Tiwari made his debut in Australia in 2008 he scored his first ODI century against West Indies in Chennai on December 11 2011 against Sri Lanka. On his retirement on February 19th M.S Dhoni for shopping from the Indian squad and blamed Dhoni for not picking up for the series of matches while he was he was at his best form.



"When I had completed playing 65 fast-class matches my batting average was around 65. The Australia team had toured India then and I had scored 130 in Chennai in a friendly game then I scored 93 against England in a friendly game. I was very close but they picked Yuvraj Singh instead. So test cap and the fact that I was ignored after getting the man of the match award for scoring a hundred, I was Ignored for 14 straight matches. When self-confidence is at its peak and someone destroys that then that player is finished."-Manoj Tiwari told News18.



"MS Dhoni was the captain, if I get the opportunity to ask the question I will ask why I was dropped from the team after scoring the century, especially in that tour of Australia where nobody was scoring runs neither Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, nor Suresh Raina, I have nothing to lose now,"Manoj added.

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