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In a move to honour the contributions of cricketer MS Dhoni to Cricket in India, the Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) retired the sportsman’s iconic Number 7 jersey. Reacting to the same, Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur voiced support for the move.  "Mahendra Singh Dhoni has earned crores of fans during his career. Be it IPL or Indian cricket, from 2007 to 2011, from T20 to ODI World Cup to Test Championship, Mahendra Singh Dhoni made the Indian cricket team the number one team. After watching him, many people took inspiration and started playing cricket. Hopefully, in the future many such players will come who will surpass Dhoni,” said Union Minister Thakur while speaking to ANI. Notably, Dhoni is the second Indian player after the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar for whom BCCI decided to retire their jersey. Tendulkar had Number 10 jersey which was retired by the BCCI in 2017.