Indian cricket's latest pin-up boy Mahendra Singh Dhoni might have become a top-grade soccer goalkeeper had he not strayed into the willow-cherry game.Starting his sports career as a goalkeeper in school, the Ranchi lad's keeping skills between the posts had prompted the coach to ask him to don the keeping gloves of cricket and the rest is history. What was soccer's loss turned out to be cricket's gain?
Agreeing with Bhattacharya, Dhoni's father Pan Singh said: ``my son used to play as a goalkeeper in colony football matches. He switched over to cricket after he was asked by the coach''.So, Dhoni is owe to his coach Chanchal Bhattacharya for today’s position. If the coach didn’t involve him with cricket then he should be a goalkeeper or nothing except an employee.
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