When Ganguly Recognized Dhoni's Hidden Talent : A Star was Born on that Day | MASTERSTROKE OF GENIUS

How Dhoni Became a Legend : Ganguly Unorthodox Thinking - Watch how Ganguly made Dhoni a star overnight by recognizing Dhoni's raw hidden talent.

In the India vs Pakistan 2nd ODI 2005 played at at Visakhapatnam, the India cricket team won the toss and elected to bat first.

Virender Sehwag, in his usual aggressive mode, blasted 74 off just 40 balls but the surprise came from MS Dhoni, the new Indian wicket keeper who was promoted up the order by captain Sourav Ganguly.

Ganguly was slated to bat at No.3, but after the first wicket fell it was Dhoni who came out to bat at No.3, to the surprise of everyone. Dhoni smashed the first ball of his innings for a powerful boundary and that was the beginning of something special to come.

For the first time in his brief career, the world witnessed Dhoni unleash his full range of shots - a combination of brute force and aggressive shot selection.

Dhoni launched an unstoppable and ruthless assault on the Pakistan bowlers and as destiny would have it, reached his first ODI century of 88 balls.

Dhoni continued his onslaught beyond his century and finally finished with a thunderous 148, which totally destroyed Pakistan. Dhoni smashed 15 fours and 4 brutal sixes in his innings of 148 which came in 123 balls.

Dhoni 148 vs Pakistan is still remembered as a very special, aggressive and one of the best ODI innings of all time in Indian cricket history.

Since then there was no looking back for Dhoni and this innings gave his career vertical take-off and rest as we all know, is history!

Ganguly's unorthodox thinking once again proved to be a masterstroke of genius and has a major role in how Dhoni became a legend!!

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