Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s affinity for football is as well as known for his exploits on the cricket field. In fact, the former India captain was a goalkeeper in his childhood days before taking up cricket.
In addition to consistently playing football in the training session, Dhoni has featured in several exhibition matches in the last few years. The 36-year old, in fact, is so much in love with the game that he even owns a team in the Indian Super League.
Well, perhaps that was the reason that despite wearing the wrong shoes on a bad surface and wearing a t-shirt with the logo of his favorite football club Manchester United, he showed his brilliant footballing skill during a promotional event.
The World Cup-winning captain took to Twitter to post the video with the caption: “Sometimes it just happens by accident, wrong shoes wrong surface but a perfect take with lots of drama.”
Meanwhile, Dhoni’s cricket career has come on track after being off it for a while. The wicketkeeper-batsman was under severe pressure in recent times but did extremely well in the recently-concluded series against Sri Lanka to ward off any apprehension regarding his form.
Head coach Ravi Shastri has also backed Dhoni to play for a while now and has claimed the veteran star will play the 2019 World Cup.
“A player is evaluated on the basis of his current form and fitness and Dhoni has both. If you see his wicket-keeping, he is the best in ODI cricket. His fitness is superb, he batted well in Sri Lanka. And let me tell you, it was just a tralier what you saw in Sri Lanka now wait for the movie,” Shastri recently told India TV.
“If he continues to play like this, there no question of not having him in the team for the 2019 world cup. You can’t even think of a team without Dhoni,” he added.