Dhoni was an ordinary player made to look like a legend because of media hype. Useless in two out of three formats, good in ODIs but cashed on a very prolific top order.
The finisher gimmick wouldn’t have worked in a weaker team, and as captain he capitalized on Ganguly’s team. He also brought the Test team to its knees before Kohli revived it.
His super fake biopic summed up the man that Dhoni is and how his rise as a so-called legend and savior of Indian cricket was just a media construct.
The finisher gimmick was overblown as well. Any half-decent player could have done what he did, and he actually lost India more matches than he won. Let’s not even talk about him leaving balls outside the off-stump in the 2019 semifinal when India needed 12 an over and even the New Zealand bowlers couldn’t believe what he was doing.
Someone like DK who spent his career in his shadows produced a better finish than Dhoni ever did in the Nidihas trophy vs Bangladesh, an innings that would have had 100x more media hype it came off Dhoni’s bat.
Dhoni is just a propanda. Nothing more. The biggest fraud in Indian cricket history along with Laxman.