India great Kapil Dev on Friday welcomed MS Dhoni's appointment as the mentor of the national team for the T20 World Cup, saying it seems a special case since he has come back to the set up only one year after retirement.
Speaking at an event here, Kapil said there should be gap of at least three to four years for a retired cricketer to come back to the national set up. "It is a good decision. I have always been of the opinion that once a cricketer retires, he should come back to the set up only after three four years but this seems like a special case with the World Cup around the corner.
Ravi (Shastri) is also down with COVID so it looks a special case," Kapil said.
BCCI on Wednesday made a surprise announcement on Dhoni's role when the squad for the T20 World Cup was named. Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni is back with Team India, but in some other role. He has been roped in as a mentor for the side by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, as the 15-member Indian squad was announced for the 2021 ICC World T20, set to be held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman from next month. India squad for ICC World T20 2021: Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma (vc), KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul Chahar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami Standby: Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur and Deepak Chahar.