The legend of ‘MS Dhoni the cricketer’ has mesmerised population international over, however lately, former Bharat cricketerAakash Chopra fondly narrated few incidents about ‘MS Dhoni the roommate’ from their date staying in combination on Bharat A’s excursion of Zimbabwe & Kenya in 2004. Chopra shared some by no means advised ahead of cottons of the way the while Global Cup-winning captain went out of his method to accommodate him. “As roommates, you need balance. So, I asked him, ‘What time do you want to sleep?’ He said, ‘Whenever you want switch the lights off.’ So, for the whole tour, he slept at 9:30 PM. I don’t know when he usually slept, but with me in the room, he’d sleep at 9:30 PM because I wanted to sleep early,” recalled Chopra on JioCinema.
Chopra after recalled how shy Dhoni used to be even if it got here to ordering his foods. “If I asked him about ordering food, he never picked up the phone and ordered. Poor him, he ate vegetarian food even though he wasn’t one, just because I was vegetarian. He was so shy… He would go down and have pastry to fill his stomach because with me, he was just getting daal-roti.”
Chopra additionally mentioned Dhoni’s large-heartedness and the way he by no means checked out teammates as opponents. “He used to bowl to Dinesh Karthik in the nets. I used to ask him, ‘why are you doing this? He is your competition.’ He used to say, ‘No, he isn’t my competition. If you want to bat, you may do so I just wanna bowl’.”
Talking of the generation when he recognised the clever of Dhoni with the bat, Chopra mentioned, “Iftikhar Anjum was a Pakistani bowler and used to bowl at 140 kmph. He (Dhoni) swept him, and since the fine-leg was inside, he got a boundary. The next ball, they put the 3rd man inside and fine-leg back. That was the first time I saw someone hitting a fast bowler for a reverse-sweep boundary. Because the third man was inside, he reverse-swept it for a four. I was like, ‘who is this player?’ Later on, I got my answer. No other wicketkeeper played for the next 10 years for India.”
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