{"id":314122,"date":"2019-07-20T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314122"},"modified":"2019-07-20T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T10:09:24","slug":"ms-dhoni-unavailable-for-west-indies-tour-to-serve-his-regiment-for-next-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ms-dhoni-unavailable-for-west-indies-tour-to-serve-his-regiment-for-next-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni unavailable for West Indies tour, to serve his regiment for next two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/dhoni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni.jpg 556w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/07\/dhoni-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday made himself unavailable for the Indian team\u2019s tour of West Indies, a\u00a0day before the selectors meet\u00a0in Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhoni has informed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) about his unavailability for next two months from the game as he would be serving his paramilitary regiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhoni met a top BCCI official and explained why he cannot go on the tour of West Indies. Dhoni is an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the parachute regiment of the territorial army. He had made the commitment much earlier, even before the World Cup, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BCCI official, however, made it clear that Dhoni is not retiring from cricket at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe is not retiring from cricket right now. He is taking a two-month sabbatical to serve his paramilitary regiment, which he had committed much earlier,\u201d official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision has been communicated to skipper Virat Kohli and the chairman of selectors, official added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday made himself unavailable for the Indian team\u2019s tour of West Indies, a\u00a0day before the selectors meet\u00a0in Mumbai. Dhoni has informed the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) about his unavailability for next two months from the game as he would be serving his paramilitary regiment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[6721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314124,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314122\/revisions\/314124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}