In the 2016 edition of the IPL, he created not just a new trend but a new position for a wicketkeeper. It was a physical demonstration of inscrutable innovation. That bizarre-looking concoction he’d stewed by lifting his right leg at a right angle and parallel to the ground to thwart a batsman’s late-cut attempts. I’d called him cricket’s Pythagoras at that point and even described his manoeuvre using the primordial theorem to back the coinage. Dhoni’s Pythagoras move first appeared during Rising Pune Supergiant’s outing against Kings XI Punjab on 17 April 2016.
