For CSK, Dhoni checks in again
Hindustan TimesFifteen years, and the essence of MS Dhoni is yet to be captured by a definitive image. The most cherished, of course, is the longshot of Dhoni teeing the ball several rows back into an erupting Wankhede in the 2011 World Cup final. A strike rate of over 200 in the last two overs across the last two seasons speaks of a mental clarity that has helped Dhoni finish many chases in the past. There has been no bigger propellant of the game than Dhoni’s story–a boy languishing in cricket’s backwaters, checking tickets at Kharagpur but also doubling up as a gun for hire in the tennis-ball tournaments along the Bengal-Jharkhand border, quietly sure about his destiny even though the world around him was oblivious to it. It took a few bold calls to finally introduce him to the world but it was the IPL that honed Dhoni into one of the sharpest minds to have ever enriched the game.