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For over a decade, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has captivated the world of cricket and over a billion Indians with his incredible ingenuity as captain, wicketkeeper and batsman. Bharat Sundaresan tracks down the cricketer’s closest friends in Ranchi and artfully presents the different shades of Dhoni-the Ranchi boy, the fauji, the diplomat, Chennai’s beloved Thala, the wicketkeeping Pythagoras-and lays bare the man underneath. He discovers a certain je ne sais quoi about the man who has a magical ability to transform and elevate everything which comes into his orbit-the Dhoni Touch.
Funny, candid, and peppered with delicious anecdotes, The Dhoni Touch reveals an ordinary man living an extraordinary life.
‘Dhoni is adored, respected, loved wildly, and yet, remains mysterious. Don’t we want to know more? I do. And this book by Bharat, a fine journalist, helps’
HARSHA BHOGLE
‘One of India’s most stylish and inquisitive cricket writers unleashes an array of helicopter shots to produce the definitive origin story of a player and captain who changed the sport in his country’
ALI MARTIN, GUARDIAN
Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: Jul/2018
ISBN: 9780143440062
Length : 256 Pages
MRP : ₹299.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
Published: Jun/2019
ISBN: 9780143500391
Run time : 415 mins
Imprint: Ebury Press
Published: Jul/2018
ISBN: 9789353051686
Length : 256 Pages
MRP : ₹299.00
For over a decade, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has captivated the world of cricket and over a billion Indians with his incredible ingenuity as captain, wicketkeeper and batsman. Bharat Sundaresan tracks down the cricketer’s closest friends in Ranchi and artfully presents the different shades of Dhoni-the Ranchi boy, the fauji, the diplomat, Chennai’s beloved Thala, the wicketkeeping Pythagoras-and lays bare the man underneath. He discovers a certain je ne sais quoi about the man who has a magical ability to transform and elevate everything which comes into his orbit-the Dhoni Touch.
Funny, candid, and peppered with delicious anecdotes, The Dhoni Touch reveals an ordinary man living an extraordinary life.
‘Dhoni is adored, respected, loved wildly, and yet, remains mysterious. Don’t we want to know more? I do. And this book by Bharat, a fine journalist, helps’
HARSHA BHOGLE
‘One of India’s most stylish and inquisitive cricket writers unleashes an array of helicopter shots to produce the definitive origin story of a player and captain who changed the sport in his country’
ALI MARTIN, GUARDIAN
Bharat Sundaresan is a world-renowned, award-winning cricket writer and commentator currently based in Adelaide, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent and senior writer for Cricbuzz, the No. 1 cricket website in the world, and also a colour commentator for SEN, the Melbourne-based sports radio station. He's the author of The Dhoni Touch, the 2018 national bestseller in India, which is considered the most in-depth biography on Indian cricket superstar M.S. Dhoni, and Believe, which he co-wrote with Suresh Raina.
Bharat is originally from Mumbai and used to work for the Indian Express, a leading Indian national daily, covering cricket and other sports for over 10.5 years, from May 2008 to December 2018. He's travelled to and covered series in every major cricketing nation in the world. He has also written for several world-class publications around the world and appeared on numerous TV-news and current-affairs shows in Australia.
For over a decade, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has captivated the world of cricket and over a billion Indians with his incredible ingenuity as captain, wicketkeeper and batsman. Bharat Sundaresan tracks down the cricketer’s closest friends in Ranchi and artfully presents the different shades of Dhoni-the Ranchi boy, the fauji, the diplomat, Chennai’s beloved Thala, the […]