Dhoni did the unexpected and continues to do so. He’s the quintessential odd man out. He’s as cut off from the system as you can be in the context of Indian cricket. He started his career playing for Bihar, a team that pretty much didn’t exist on the Indian cricket map. Or it did just because it had to. However, in less than a decade, he ended up putting Ranchi (now in Jharkhand) on the world cricket map.
