Hits and Misses of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story

2. Appreciate your opponents:

Another aspect that is brilliantly shown in the movie is how he wasn’t put down by the outcome of the match if a player from the opposition was too good on that day. First, in the local game with 5 runs needed off the last ball, he asked the bowler to bowl it into the legs of the batsman – Santosh Lal who used the Slap Shot (better known as Helicopter Shot) to hit the ball for a six and win the match.

Dhoni’s team lost but he went ahead to befriend Santosh and learned the shot from him and used it at various stages in his career with excellence. So much so that it has become his signature shot.

The second incident was when Bihar was playing Punjab in the Cooch Behar Trophy. Batting first Bihar scored 357 runs and when the Punjab team came out to bat, after losing one wicket, skipper Yuvraj Singh walked out, he absolutely pummeled the Bihar bowlers and scored 358 runs, one run more than the entire Bihar team to win that game for Punjab.

Here as well Dhoni wasn’t disappointed that they lost but was full of praises for the way Yuvi played at took his team to victory.