It took ten days to convince Sourav Ganguly to let him keep wickets: Kiran More shares fascinating tale about scouting MS Dhoni
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Kiran More revealed that it was their search for a hard-hitting wicket-keeper batsman who could replace Rahul Dravid that led them to MS Dhoni. We wanted him to play in the finals as a wicket-keeper. That’s when we had a lot of debate with Sourav Ganguly and Deep Dasgupta. So, it took about ten days to convince Sourav and his selector to ask Dasgupta to not keep wickets, and to let MS Dhoni keep wickets, More mentioned.
