new delhi by now the outpouring of emotions over two highprofile retirements in indian cricket has started to sink in on saturday ms dhoni answered the question that many were asking since the 2015 icc world cup what are dhonis plans as far as retirement from international cricket is concerned it was funny too as the same set of people would then say he still has 23 years of cricket more in him it happened after the 2016 world t20 exit as well and then following the 2019 odi world cup defeat both in the semis but dhoni remained oblivious to those conjectures like he has always been through his career on august 15 2020 indias 74th independence day he pushed an instagram post saying consider me retired simple no fancy statements almost simultaneously one of dhonis best pals on and off the ground suresh raina followed in his skippers footsteps walking together into the sunset of their international careersreams have been written about the enigma around dhoni the calm persona he maintains his unbothered demeanour and his unconventional means his tickingbomb style of batting take it till the end and then explode in simpler terms he did it in his own way had faith in it and succeeded raina many believe still had a couple of years of whiteball international cricket left in him had he kept knocking at the door but it was courageous of the lefthanded batsman regarded as one of the best fielders produced by india to call it a day almost in the same breath as dhoni fully aware that he will be overshadowed but like always he allowed his captain to take the lead and walked behind him the interesting relation between the two besides having almost the same timeline of careers is that both came from small towns dhoni from ranchi in jharkhand and raina from muradnagar in uttar pradesh and both inspired millions making people believe that every one of us can dream big while the cricket fraternity has already shared how dhoni designed his career from beginning to end with unmatched records in between and rainas contribution to the sport it was interesting to get an insight from some of the indian legends from sports other than crickettimesofindiacom got in touch with some of them and this is what they had to say about dhoni and raina and the legacy they leave behinddilip tirkey hockey playerformer captain mens teamms dhoni served indian cricket for long and we won two world cups t20 and odi under his captaincy i have never had the opportunity to meet him but have seen him play across formats the kind of cool he maintains and makes decisions was one of the reasons for the teams success and consistency under him definitely when such big players retire it leaves a voidraina too played good cricket for india but i think at 33 it was a bit early for him and he still had