What we all want to know is how the mind of MSD works, what goes into the thought processes that make him take some unimaginable decisions, catching everyone off guard. While reams and reams have been written about Dhoni, the captain cool, the book does not say how he has managed to stay calm in tense situations especially as Dhoni rarely gives media interviews and one can generally hear him only during the mandatory captain's press conferences before and after matches. What is unknown about Dhoni continues to remain unknown. This being a biography, one would have wished to read beyond mundane match reports that are available on the internet.
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The book has covered almost all the international series that Dhoni has played in, summarising his performances and supporting them by the captain's post-match quotes, something that is routine for journalists filing copies at the end of each day's play. A majority of the book has extracts from various publications and match-reports that gives one a feeling that this book is nothing but a compilation of newspaper clippings in a small, bound form that you could carry in your pocket. 'If one were to trust self-indulgent myth-weavers in Ranchi, the cricketer owns anything between five hundred and one thousand bikes, the number depending on how big a liar one is talking to,' Ghosh writes. He also writes that almost everyone in Ranchi seems to know a lot about Dhoni. Ghosh has interviewed those who have known Dhoni from his childhood days, including his coaches and teammates. It is a well-tried effort to chronicle the life story of Ranchi's most famous son from his school days through to his days in Kharagpur, where he was recruited by South Eastern Railway on sports quota, and to his retirement from Tests in 2014 end. The 240-page MSD: The Man, The Leader is Pune-based freelance writer and columnist Biswadeep Ghosh's first attempt at a sports book – he has previously written biographies of actors and two books of fiction for young adults.
He's the man who has made Ranchi a world-famous name through his exploits on the field, the man who is the only captain to lift all the three world titles - the 50-over World Cup, the World T20 and Champions Trophy - the man who has made some unthinkable decisions on the field, some of which have succeeded while some others have not there is nothing that is unknown about Dhoni's public life. Dhoni, Indian cricket's poster boy, it is also the heartwarming account of the life of a young man who won India the World Twenty20 in 2007 and the 50 over World Cup title in 2011 but can still tell his throngs of admirers, 'I am the same boy from Ranchi'.Book: MSD- The Man, The Leader Author: Biswadeep Ghosh Publisher: Rupa Publications Pages: 240 Price: Rs 137 Ever since he made his international debut in 2004 and went on to become a hugely popular cricketer - even surpassing the likes of Sachin Tendulkar in popularity charts - the story of Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been known to all those who follow the sport.
How that legend came to be and grew from game to game is told here by noted sportswriter Gulu Ezekiel in his crackling but measured prose. When he made his international debut at 23, he was already mature by Indian cricket standards with five grinding years of domestic cricket behind him. With his striking form on the day, his long locks visible beneath his helmet, red tints glinting in the sunlight, 'Mahi' Dhoni had transformed from a boy from an obscure small town to a sports legend with the aura of a rock star and yet, Dhoni was no child prodigy, no overnight success. When on 5 April 2005 in Visakhapatnam, he exploded onto international consciousness by becoming the first regular Indian keeper to score a one-day century. But 'brute strength', 'murderous form' and 'a man possessed' were some of the phrases that came to mind.
It must be my power, the bat speed I generate and the swing of the bat.' Mahendra Singh Dhoni is as calm and unruffled a sportsman on the field as he is self-effacing off it.
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