MS Dhoni believes in letting his work speak, reveals Wriddhiman Saha

Spending the prime of his career under the shadows of MS Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha learnt the difficulties of his life at a time when a cricketer would never want to sit on the bench. He was scoring runs, putting in dives to take catches when he was playing for Bengal in Ranji Trophy but that was about it. Among other things, he turned up as an occasional player for Chennai Super Kings, though he spent most of his time on the bench, and that he believes was the start of mutual respect for MS Dhoni that he still hold dear.

"He doesn't talk much. He believes in letting his work speak. I am the same. In the three years I spent at Chennai, he would share his experience of keeping on different surfaces. We would discuss the evolution of wicketkeeping," Saha told Cricket Monthly.

When Dhoni suddenly announced his Test retirement in December 2014, leaving everyone shell-shocked, Saha had to turn up for India as the wicket-keeper that he had already done in the first Test of the same series in Adelaide, apart from doing it few other times when Dhoni was not playing due to over-rate offence. Saha revealed that it was Dhoni who advised the Indian cricketers to stay together for a long time to take Indian Test cricket forward.

"He told us this team will stay together for a long time, and that it is our duty to take Indian Test cricket forward," Saha remembers of Dhoni's retirement announcement.