Virender Sehwag who has huge fan following for his excellent talent in Cricket said that, Mahendra Singh Dhoni to stay on as India's limited overs captain till the next World Cup.
Replying to queries about Dhoni, Sehwag said: "He should continue as captain till the next World Cup. If he does so, he can leave behind a good World Cup team. And if he retires... you can imagine, even now when Dhoni is there, people have to think about who should bat at 5th, 6th and 7th position
"If Dhoni is not there, the 5th, 6th and 7th slots will become absolutely free and you cannot expect somebody to finish the match properly."
The explosive opener dismissed reports that it was Dhoni who was behind the decision to drop him from the Indian team.
Asked if he believed Dhoni had a hand in dropping him from the team, the former India batsman told 'India TV' show 'Aap ki Adalat': "I don't think Dhoni would have done this. He is a nice man at heart. We senior players respect him, and when he first took over as captain, all senior players played under him, gave him guidance and nice suggestions, which he implemented during his captaincy and our team won in T20, ODIs and Test matches."
On whether he had tiffs with Dhoni, Sehwag said: "I don't think any such thing happened. It was all media speculations that Sehwag and Dhoni are at loggerheads. We stay in a hotel together and play matches, I don't think such things occurred. Had it been so, I would have been dropped much earlier. I don't think (Sourav Ganguly's) statement (that Dhoni was behind Sehwag's ouster from Team India) was correct."
"The selectors decide the criteria. I think the picking or dropping of players by a captain used to take place when Ganguly was the skipper, but the scenario changed thereafter, when Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble took over. Probably they changed the trend and it was decided that only those who perform, shall play."
"When selections were made for Tests, I clearly told the chief selector, you can check it out with K Srikkanth, that Sehwag said, he had no interest in becoming captain, nor was he interested in becoming vice-captain. I told him you can pick up anybody as vice-captain. You can check it out with Dhoni. I had no interest in becoming the captain."
"I was not making a jibe at Dhoni. What I said was: do not give the entire credit to the captain, give credit to the team too."
He added: "No doubt, if you go through records, Dhoni is India's best captain to date. Beating Sourav Ganguly, he won the Tests, ODIs and T20s, won both the World Cups. Nobody can deny that, but to give credit to a single person is not good, others should also get credit for winning the Cups.
On India's recent losses to Bangladesh and South Africa, Sehwag remarked: "We lost because of the team, and not because of the captain or Dhoni, because neither our batting nor bowling was up to the mark. For how long will Dhoni alone win the match for us?"
