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Virat Kohli's Tweet Sparked Dhoni's Retirement Rumours and Twitterati Got Emotional

Priyanka Parmar

12 Sep 2019 14:55 IST

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Virat Kohli took to Twitter to share a photo his archives of India's triumph over Australia in the World T20 2016 when Virat partnered with MS Dhoni which led to speculations about Dhoni's retirement.

Virat Kohli is quite active on social media and shares photos from his archives quite often. The Captain of the Indian Cricket Team shared a photo with one of the most loved Indian cricketers, MS Dhoni aka Mahi. Even though the photo had a nostalgic sentiment to it, Twitterati thought it was a hint towards Dhoni's retirement and tweets started flooding in!

Here's the tweet made by Virat Kohli that sparked Dhoni's retirement rumours:

A game I can never forget. Special night. This man, made me run like in a fitness test ? @msdhoni ?? pic.twitter.com/pzkr5zn4pG
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) September 12, 2019

The tweetstorm that came in after led to #Dhoni trending on Twitter. Here are some of the tweets about Dhoni's retirement:

It's respect for his idol, not a hint of retirement. Please stop it all, never bring #Dhoni and retire word together.??7⃣ https://t.co/paLtbjrDLf
— MS Dhoni 7⃣ (@WeAreDhoni) September 12, 2019

After rumor of #Dhoni retirement spreading everywhere

Me: pic.twitter.com/exXkuL96lh
— Adv. Ashutosh J Dubey ?? (@iamashu123) September 12, 2019

Thank you @SaakshiSRawat

❤️❤️❤️#Dhoni #DhoniInBillionHearts https://t.co/mUzOy1Opau
— Shashank shekher (@imsshekher) September 12, 2019

Not 7oday. ??
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) September 12, 2019

Media : when will you Retire?#Dhoni : pic.twitter.com/67EzXgUraE
— Prashant (@prashant_7_) September 12, 2019

How many love❤ and retweets for mahi bhai..

A kind of satisfaction you get, when you come to know it was all rumors.

???@msdhoni @SaakshiSRawat #Dhoni pic.twitter.com/MRe82H5pcA
— Nishant Raj (@nishant4_king) September 12, 2019

Can any other celebrity send an entire country in a frenzy without even saying anything?#Dhoni https://t.co/tsEZ7qLUME
— Rupin Kale (@Vegansportlover) September 12, 2019

What do we say to the haters ? ??♥️ #Dhoni #DhoniInBillionHearts #DhoniRetirement pic.twitter.com/fxnQkpaE3I
— saravanan nagarajan (@saravann96) September 12, 2019

Soon after Dhoni's wife, Sakshi Singh Dhoni also tweeted to shut down all rumours:

Its called rumours !
— Sakshi Singh ??❤️ (@SaakshiSRawat) September 12, 2019

Of course, Jofra Archer also tweeted about this back in 2016!

You cannot retire Bigman ?
— Jofra Archer (@JofraArcher) February 20, 2016

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