Hits and Misses of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story

4. Take risk:

The first risk he took was when he picked sports over education to make a career out of it. In the conventional Indian society, no parent would want his child to think of sport as a career and take it easy with studies. He had to double up the effort, study and then go out to practice; he was ready for working extra hours but never wanted to drop off something he was passionate about.

His talent took him through; he had a job with SAIL where they paid him a stipend and allowed him sufficient time to practice. He switched over to Central Coal Fields Limited on insistence of Deval Sahay who was an influential character in the story. They paid him four times the stipend to play for them and he switched.

Probably the biggest risk he took off the cricket field was to quit his job with the Indian Railways and give himself a year to keep cricket as the only focus in his life and see how far he can reach. It paid off and by the end of the year, he was already a part of the Indian team.