Seeing Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name pop up everywhere on your feed for the bat sticker story but you don’t know what it is? IPLCricBet brings you the story behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni making the news headlines quite ahead of IPL 2024. Keep reading and find out the reason below.

What’s the fuss about the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s bat sticker?

The legend currently ruling the scenes of Indian cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is making waves about his new bat sticker way before IPL 2024 is happening. To prepare for his cricketing finale, the captain of Chennai Super Kings is donning ‘Prime Sports’ on his bat. This is his way of showing respect, love and appreciation to those who supported him during his cricketing journey.

Addressing this incident, Paramjit Singh, owner of the sports apparel brand, is calling it ‘Friendship No. 1’. This little token of appreciation from Mahendra Singh Dhoni crossed borders to catch the attention of legendary Adam Gilchrist and Michael Hussey in Australia.

Companies which gained Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s love

Prime Sports is not the only company which gained Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s love and appreciation. Owner of Beat All Sports (BAS), Somi Kohli revealed that this ex – India captain did not charge a penny to advertise the BAS logo during his 2019 World Cup match. According to starpunternews team, BAS is one of India’s biggest sports manufacturing companies and the company which sponsored Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s first kit ever.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni wore BAS and SS stickers on his bat all through the tournament. This event marked MS’ final outing in the Indian colors. BAS owner Kohli also added before the World Cup took place, Mahendra Singh Dhoni refused all monetary gifts involved and only did the advertisement out of goodwill.

According to an interview with Sports Launchpad, Kohli’s words to describe the situation were as follows.

“Dhoni did not mention any money. He just said ‘put your stickers on my bats and send them across’. I tried to convince him, ‘You’re letting go of such a lucrative contract’. He let go of crores of rupees worth of contract. I requested his wife Sakshi, his father, mother. Even told his CA and Paramjit from Ranchi. They all went to his home before the World Cup. But he said ‘No… it is my decision’.”

The long standing history of Kohli, BAS and MS Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s and BAS’ owner Kohli’s relationship goes way back to 1998. When Kohli was looking for a promising young talent 25 years ago, he found Mahendra Singh Dhoni, trusted him and sent his kits to him. However, they did not get the chance to meet until 6 years later. This was in 2004, the same year when Mahendra Singh Dhoni made his debut in Team India.

With luck on his side, Mahendra Singh scored his first ODI century, i.e. 148 against Pakistan with the BAS sticker on his bat. And the rest is history! To keep enjoying interesting titbits of cricket, keep reading IPLCricBet for more!

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