This is an archive article published on November 6, 2005
Sport Folio
Number Game 4 Number of times MS Dhoni has hit a six to win a match for India. Before the consecutive matches at Jaipur and Pune,...
November 6, 2005 12:00 AM IST
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Number Game
4 Number of times MS Dhoni has hit a six to win a match for India. Before the consecutive matches at Jaipur and Pune, hersquo;d done it against the West Indies at Dambulla on July 31 and against Zimbabwe at Harare on September 4. He now holds the record in this category, leaving behind Kapil Dev and Sachin Tendulkar who twice ended matches with hits over the boundary
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An insight into Indiarsquo;s original swashbuckling wicket-keeper, before MS Dhoni happened. Incidentally, one of Engineerrsquo;s first modelling stints was for Brylcreem; Dhoni with his flowing mane looks set to follow as corporates queue up. The serious background stuff in the book is peppered with Engineerrsquo;s extraordinary tales of his life as a cricketer, and the book includes a foreword by former British Prime Minister John Major, who calls the Indian one of the finest entertainers
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