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MS DHONI HAD AN AURA – HE WAS CALMNESS PERSONIFIED

DEREK PRINGLE

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In the pantheon of India’s cricketing deities, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is one of the most revered. He’s up there on the same pedestal as Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev – not bad for the son of a railway ticket collector who sought to follow his father’s vocation until cricket came a calling.
And that is the thing about the era in which Dhoni came to prominence as a wicket-keeper/ batsman of ice and fire. Under Sourav Ganguly, India had begun to move away from selecting players solely from the higher castes and ...

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