Cool-mask lifts as Dhoni looks for answers

January 31, 2015 18:52

Remember the Phantom? That masked crusader who lived in the woods and fought crime. Well, in the comics anyway. There were times, however, when the ghost who walks would doff his superhero costume and walk the streets as an ordinary human. Again, according to Lee Falk, the man whos responsible for bringing the Phantom to life.

Well its something like that whenever MS Dhoni loses his cool on the cricket field.

For, most times he can seem almost superhuman, at least in terms of his ability to stay impassive even when the situation demands that he let some emotion show.

So when Dhoni literally refused to collect a throw from Mohammed Shami and subsequently berated him for not having moved into a finer position at fine-leg, it became an event.

Like it always does when the inscrutable Indian captain vents it out uncharacteristically, like an ordinary human.

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