 Not And I want to send my condolences out to to India, as we know, because we followed you guys, Donnie officially retired. Got a lot of sad messages from folks. Obviously, I think India is probably gonna be in mourning for ever. Yeah, it's just over and over again. We're like, 2020, man. Yeah. But I had, this is an ode to the captain, to Captain Cool, M.S. Donnie. And it was subbed by our subbers. Indian cricket commentator and journalist, Harsha Bogo, and Bogley. I think it's Bogley. Forgive me if I mispronounce that. And M.S. Donnie's various former teammates take you through his role as a captain for the Indian cricket team. Donnie put his favorite song as the background score for his retirement video. The lyrics go, quote, I am a poet only for a moment or two. My story will last only for a moment or two. My existence will last only for a moment or two. My youth will last only for a moment or two. I am a poet only for a moment or two. I'm, quote, that's beautiful. He was the voice of the voiceless. He taught a generation of small town kids to dream big. As captain, he humbly served his nation. He did the people of India proud. This is truly the end of an era. So yeah, this was by our subbers. I don't think this is their video, but they subbed it for us, so. Thank you. As always, here we go. Donnie is, I don't need a sentence, three words will do, the coolest one. I think he's made a lot of selfless choices along the way in his journey. That's who MS is for you. For me, MS Donnie is a very passionate cricketer. Knows his ability and always backs his ability with calmness personified. He became a leader, inspired millions. After that, people started to become like him. We hope that one day, all of us will retire. That his impact on the entire team, on the entire Indian cricket team, is a great honor and it's not easy for him to fill them up. People that someone who came from Bazaar Ranchi, Kharagpur and then strode across the world, seemed like a giant, never seemed to have any trouble adapting to a different level of cricket. That's what differentiates champions from others. I didn't hear of him really for a long time until a producer told me, I've just seen this man bat. He's got long hair. He says he walks like a bull. He bats like he owns the place. Forget everybody. Remember MS Donnie. I don't show much emotion. If I had an expression with two faces, I wouldn't be like this. I would say this to myself. We were actually laughing. David was also with us. David was a great player in the morning. We were talking about what's happening in the real world. Like Mendoza and Donnie are doing. They shot in every corner. They shot big shots. They shot big shots. That was the first international level of a Shwati match. There was a lot of pressure. There were so many big players. They were so eager to become a great player. Anyone who knew MS at that point always knew the fact that he was a very astute cricketer, a very astute person. He was someone who was very sharp at all points. He was on the button. He knew what he wanted to do. He was very clear about what he was trying to achieve for himself as a cricketer and to represent the country. And also, when he was captain of the team, he also felt that he wanted all of us to do well. And he built that kind of an atmosphere. When I went to MS and said, give me the ball, I want to bowl in the bowl out, he said, yeah, okay, do it. I know you'll do it. I think the beauty of that World Cup was that everyone in that ground, no matter where we were in the field, when he made that decision to give Jogi the ball, we just trusted. So every decision that was made, every call that was taken was trusted by each one of us on the field and just off the field, just outside the ropes as well. And I think that's what created that magic of 2007. That World T20 in South Africa changed a lot of things. We know it led to the birth of T20, cricket in its modern form as we know it. But the single biggest gain beyond being the catalyst for IPF was the arrival of MS Goni. As someone who could lead from the front, who in the going work got tough, was really calm as the first we saw of him. And yet who in times of victory was not grandstanding, was not putting himself there in front. Coming in, becoming the lead player for Chennai Super Kings. It started a love story with Chennai Super Kings that has just grown and grown and grown and grown and magnificent. The first IPL in 2010, all those Champions League trophies, but more than anything else, the finishes. I asked Rahul Dravid once many years ago. I said, why Dhoni, why not Dhoni at three? He said, because nobody will finish like him at number six. He's far more valuable at six. We'll find a three, but we won't find someone who finishes like him. And then the legend of Dhoni finishing grew that gave in Dharamshala, where as I've often said, I saw this ball, white ball going against the night sky, like it was a meteor headed somewhere. That game in Sri Lanka, where what, 14, 15 together the last over, refusing singles, wanting to finish it himself. The aura, the jethafina of Dhoni, the finisher, just grew and grew and grew. And to be honest, even from the commentary box, if it was 90 of seven overs, as it once was in the IPL, you didn't think it was over. You said, how is he going to find a way out? Not will he find a way out? 2011 is something which was very important tournament when you're playing in front of your home crowd. World Cup is a big stage. And as far as bowling was concerned for a keeper to be constantly communicating with Bola at times, it's his hard job to do. And he had enough trust in me to take the initiative or take the lead with that regard. That really worked very well throughout my career and MS as captain, you know, was always the case. And Mahendra Singh Dhoni's class was special. He took the team with him. If you're talking about 2011, I'll say after that, till 2019, if you're talking about Virat Kohli, if you're talking about Coach Ravishaswari, then there's a pillar for him too. Viva Singh Dhoni and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. So they left and I don't need to say what they did. They just want to see how much they've taken their mind and will for the sake of their skills. Back in his ability, I think that's been the greatest asset which he had playing for it. He has pushed the game to that stage where the bowlers are feeling the pressure and they're committing those errors which he can really capitalize on. And that is something which shows in MS Dhoni the great finisher. He's only been captain of India for six years. In those six years, MS Dhoni has got IPL titles, Champions League titles, but with India he's got a World T20, he's got a World Cup win. And you could say that all that is because there were all these great players around him. Then he comes to England for the Champions Trophy and he says, I need an opening batsman. So who's my opening batsman? He says, Rohit Sharma, you're my opening batsman. It's changed Rohit Sharma's mind. What a role he has had to play in the evolution of Jehel and Kuldeep. I've been very lucky that I had the stump mic turned on and I've heard some very, very interesting instructions. There's almost as if someone's providing the voice and the bowlers are following. I think he's paid a magnificent role in the development of people. And I think the smooth transition of Dhoni to Kohli is one of his biggest moments. I think he's got an uncanny ability to just live in the moment and back a player when he asks him to do difficult things. His biggest legacy has been the fact that every time he's there at the crease, you have hope. It doesn't matter what the situation is. He has played that kind of innings pretty much throughout his business career. I, as a cricketer, was a friend. I'm grateful to him for all that he's been to me and the leader that he's been to me. He was very capable. He was very talented. He explored at the best, highest level. So thank you, Dhoni. Great captain or great team-man or Indian captain who has been taken so far I can't believe it. Thank you very much. What endeared him to me even more was once he gave up the captaincy, there was no song and dance about it. There was no grandstanding. Come, look at me. Me, captain, greatest. I am abdicating. Look at me. No. That's it for me. Thank you. Yeah, I'm getting emotional. He seems like a special player. Obviously, we never had the pleasure. We've seen clips of him. Obviously, but that's not the same. Right. We didn't grow up with him. But you can equate it to the greats of the people like we've known, like of our favorite teams. I'm sure you've had some good players in the Yankees at some point, right? Yep. One or two, maybe. One or two. But it's like when Peyton Manning retires. Everybody in the world of football knows how big of a deal that is. Exactly, yeah. And that's American football, if you don't know what that is. But he was one of the debatably greatest to top three at Worst. Right. Greatest quarterback of all time. All the time, yeah. Just retiring, and it's a big deal. There's players on personal teams. You know, if you're Cowboys or I'm a Falcons fan, so like when Julio Jones retires, it's just gonna be a really sad day for me. Yeah. Because he's like my favorite player. Yeah, and I, you know, and comparatively, like when you have a team you root for, like when we lived in Texas, I loved the San Antonio Spurs. And so when David Robinson and Tim Duncan, both of them, when they both retired, that was very emotional. They were tired from the Lakers. Yeah, and Shaq, when Shaq retired. But they had a resonance that was bigger than their sport as well. So like for example, being a Spurs fan, you hated the Lakers. But man, anybody who said to me that Kobe was the best basketball, I was like, yeah, you're absolutely right. Kobe's the best. And when Shaq retired, as much as I couldn't stand how much they dominated the Spurs year after year, you couldn't deny the fact that there was no more, no one, everybody in the NBA, no one were dominating. So the whole world of cricket knows this is one of the greatest ever. But you also have the feeling, and that's what a lot of them echoed that, how selfless of a player is. Like that's what always makes the great ones great. Yeah. They are the greatest, but they don't feel the need to gloat about it. Yeah, that's what happened with both, you know, with Robinson and Duncan on the Spurs, and I can name a number of Yankees, but Jeter, all selfish bastards, went and now Derek Jeter, from the day he stepped into Major League Baseball until the day he left, was a gentleman and an upstanding guy, as was still going to hell for playing for the Yankees. Those of you who don't know, this is what they call the Red Sox and Furiority Complex. Oh my God, shut up. Anyways, that was beautiful. Really lovely. I'm sad that we never got to actually see, I mean, we got to see Satchin play. Yes. And hear the Satchin. That was the coolest part of what we got to see from Satchin, but yeah, you can tell what style of player that I'm sure are a bunch of stupid babies. And I know just from the, how much we've heard about it in the comments on Twitter, on Instagram, just how big of an impact. And it was an expected retirement too. It was, but it will still be for the majority of Indians, I think, like most, when a legend leaves a team, that first season they come back out, you feel the absence really hard. It's like an end of an era. It's like a part of your life has ended. And when you watch again, do you think is it ever gonna be the same? It won't be, but that's the beauty of a moment like this and that he was right. I think probably the case with all athletes and especially for the impact. We're comparing right now the sports that we grew up with and as much as they're a part of the American fabric, because they really are a part of the fabric, we know what cricket is to India. We don't have any comparable sport comparison and what the athletes on the Indian cricket team mean to you guys. So we compare what we know, but it's not a fair comparison because we know that these guys- But I know you'll still yell at us for it. I know, yeah, I'm sure you will. How dare you compare them to such and such. But yeah, but thinking of all of you guys, obviously because we know it's not an easy time when you have the greatest of all time, your favorite player retires, it's never fun. But I'm hoping Donnie, I don't know what his plans are because a lot of times when greats retire, they go into commentary, they go into stuff like that. So I don't know what his plan is, but I'm sure he has a wonderful life ahead with his family. And that's all you can wish. Yep, there you go. And I hope y'all can get cricket soon. Yeah, I know a lot of y'all are missing cricket right now.