MS Dhoni dropped from T20Is: Fans vent ire on selectors, tweet support for Thala

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was on Friday dropped from India's squads for the upcoming T20 International series against West Indies and Australia.

The Board Of Control for Cricket in India released the squads late on Friday and fans immediately took to social media to voice their disapproval.

Dhoni retired from Tests a few years ago, choosing to concentrate only on white-ball cricket. His ommission from India's T20 squad compelled many to suggest that the legend might not make it to the 2019 ICC World Cup.

Here are some tweets

Dhoni fans going to meet selection committee.#ThankyouDhoni pic.twitter.com/qAKazz2Sma

—  (@theesmaarkhan) October 26, 2018

Automatically Tears came from my eyes when I saw the squad for T20#Dhoni Miss you madly

— paiyaapraveen (@Paiyaapraveen) October 26, 2018

This was probably the best year of Dhoni in T20 cricket. It was this year only, he looked the most dangerous T20 player and he's out of team. Let's see what others can do what he didn't.#Dhoni #INDvsWI

— HITMAN (@cricrohit1) October 26, 2018

Even the Indian T20i team for #AusvInd announced. 17 members. Big NEWS is that Dhoni is NOT in that team too. Might not see Dhoni in India colours for the T20 format again... #AusvInd

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) October 26, 2018

After bcci announced t20i team,,,#Dhoni #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/pp8wVO5hWT

— प्रDeeP (@Pradeep48404852) October 26, 2018

Dhoni has the second best strike rate and he is third highest scorer in the last two years in T20s. If BCCI can’t drop dhoni in ODIs after having a poor 2018 with the bat then no way they will drop him in T20s. It’s his personal decision. Retirement must be around the corner.

— Jai (@singh_jaiveeer) October 26, 2018

Team for three T20I match series against West Indies

Rohit Sharma (C), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Dinesh Karthik, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant (wk), Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem.

Team for four-match Test series against Australia

Virat Kohli (C), M Vijay, KL Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.