New Delhi: What Mahendra Singh Dhoni 'likes' is indeed a matter of national importance considering huge fan following in a cricket-obsessed country. But he is one of those celebrities who prefer to keep things unto themselves.


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When he reveals something, it becomes a topic of national interest. That's precisely what had happened earlier this week. On Tuesday (December 12), he liked a post on Twitter, and it left everyone confused. For it was only the third time that the former India captain has 'liked' a post. And it's out to be something big, important.


The 36-year-old liked a tweet from the official handle of a leading Hindi news channel. And the tweet claimed that the 2019 ICC World Cup is 'fixed', claiming Virat Kohli's team will win the tournament.


The post tagged with the official handles of Kohli, Dhoni, Ravi Shastri, the BCCI, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, Anurag Thakur, Rajiv Shukla, Sharad Pawar, Gautam Gambhir and Ajay Jadeja.



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Yes, it raised a furore on social media fans sharing what they think about the possibility of India winning the World Cup for the third-time and match-fixing.


But as it turned out, it's nothing to do with match-fixing, but something about Indian captains who won the World Cup after getting married vis-a-vis Kohli's recent wedding to Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.


As we all know, Kapil Dev and Dhoni are the only Indian captains to have lifted the coveted trophy. And interestingly, both managed to do so after two or three years after getting married.


Kapil married Romi Bhatia in 1980, and he gave India their first ever World Cup title in 1983. Dhoni married Sakshi Singh Rawat in 2010, and he led India to their second World Cup title in 2011.


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Despite having millions of followers on social media and living under a constant spotlight, the former India captain has tweeted 445 times and only three likes, since joining the popular social media site in 2009.


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Kohli married Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma on December 11 in a low-key on December 11 in Tuscany, Italy.


Dhoni, who stepped down as the captain of Indian limited-overs' sides in January this year, remains an integral part of Kohli's team in the white ball formats.


In the first of the three ODI matches against Sri Lanka, Dhoni stood amidst the Dharamshala ruins to help India avoid the ignominy of registering their lowest score with a classic half-century.