Mahendra Singh Dhoni is recognized as one particular of the best cricketing minds of the modern era. The previous India captain attained the nickname ‘Captain Cool’ because of his capacity to continue being tranquil in some of the most tense predicaments on the cricket discipline. Dhoni usually experienced his bag loaded with tricks and he generally came up with some variety of a learn program that would convert the tides in his favour. How lots of moments have bowlers like Kuldeep Yadav and R Ashwin talked about Dhoni giving them advice from powering the stumps that have resulted in wickets.
But a single ought to ponder what it would be like sharing a place with a cricketing intellect these as this? Previous India opener Gautam Gambhir has the response. In the latest episode of Star Sports’ chat exhibit Cricket Related, Gambhir recalled the time when he experienced to share a room with Dhoni for the duration of a collection.
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“We ended up roommates for extra than a thirty day period and all we made use of to speak about was ‘hair’ because he had people very long hair again then,” Gambhir stated.
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“We talked about how he would manage his hair and all that things. I don’t forget us sleeping on the ground at the time simply because we experienced a really small area and the initial 7 days, we mentioned how to make it more substantial.
“So we eliminated the beds out of the place and we equally were sleeping on the flooring, with the mattress on the ground, and it was a excellent second,” Gambhir included.
The previous still left-handed batsman went on to include that you get to know a ton about a person when you share a area with them.
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“We were being each young, MS Dhoni had just lately started off participating in global cricket with each other. We went to Kenya together, we went for India A tour to Zimbabwe alongside one another and invested a ton of time with each other. But when you share a room for a month and a 50 percent with an individual, you get to know a large amount about that particular person.,” Gambhir reported.
Meanwhile, Gambhir also went on to explain Dhoni as a fortunate captain in the exact episode of the chat clearly show. “Dhoni has been a extremely blessed captain for the reason that he got an amazing staff in just about every structure,” Gambhir reported. “Captaining 2011 Environment Cup group was pretty uncomplicated for Dhoni due to the fact we had players like Sachin, Sehwag, myself, Yuvraj, Yusuf, Virat, so he experienced received the finest teams, when Ganguly experienced to do the job really hard for it, and as a end result Dhoni won so numerous trophies.”
