Mohammad Kaif – Got out of team for not serving biryani to Dhoni

new Delhi. India won the T20 World Cup title in 2007 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Young players like Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, S. Sreesanth were included in this team. However, Mohammad Kaif, considered the most agile fielder of the team, was not part of this team. Recently, during a live chat, he told that not feeding Biryani to Mahendra Singh Dhoni cost him dearly due to which he got out of the team.

Kaif did not feed Biryani to Dhoni

Kaif told that during a series in 2006, Mohammad Kaif invited the entire team, including coach Greg Chappell, to his house for dinner. A special biryani was created for the entire team. According to Kaif, big players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly were getting very nervous about the sake of their sake. When the team came to their house, junior players like Suresh Raina and Dhoni were in one room while the other senior players were in the other room. In such a situation, Kaif was spending most of the time with senior players and he ignored Dhoni.

Kaif jokingly said that he was never able to return to the team after 2006 because of Dhoni not serving Biryani himself because by then Dhoni had become the captain. Kaif said, Dhoni always reminds me that when he came home I did not take good care of him.

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Kaif said that there is no option for Dhoni

Mohammad Kaif had said that no one can replace Dhoni. Kaif said, 
Dhoni has no option. Many players have been tried in place of Dhoni. I don’t think KL Rahul is a long-term option as a wicket-keeper batsman. He should always be ready as a backup wicketkeeper, if the keeper gets injured then he will be a good option for wicketkeeping. Therefore you have to prepare a keeper. At the moment, even Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson cannot replace Dhoni.