Oxford Book Store and Westland invite you to celebrate the launch of

Captain Cool: The M.S. Dhoni Story

by acclaimed sportswriter

Gulu Ezekiel

Former Test cricketer Chetan Chauhan will be a Special Guest at the occasion.
 
Date: 29th September 2008

Time: 6:00 p.m.
 
Venue: Oxford Bookstore, Statesman House, First Floor, 148, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi - 110 001

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About the Book:
‘It must be my power, the bat speed I generate, and the swing of the bat…’

Mahender Singh Dhoni is as calm and unruffled a sportsman on the field as he is self-effacing off it. But ‘brute strength’, ‘murderous form’ and ‘a man possessed’ were some of the phrases that came to mind when, on 5 April 2005 in Visakhapatnam, he exploded onto international consciousness by becoming the first regular Indian ’keeper to score a one-day century.

With his striking form on the day, his long locks visible beneath his helmet, red tints glinting in the sunlight, ‘Mahi’ Dhoni had transformed from a boy from an obscure small town to a sports legend with the aura of a rock star.

And yet, Dhoni was no child prodigy, no overnight success. When he made his international debut at 23, he was already mature by Indian cricket standards—with five grinding years of domestic cricket behind him.

How that legend came to be—and grew from game to game—is told here by noted sportswriter Gulu Ezekiel in his crackling but measured prose.

Captain Cool is the story of M.S. Dhoni, Indian cricket’s poster boy; it is also the heartwarming account of the life of a young man who won India the World Twenty20 title but can still tell his throngs of admirers, ‘I am the same boy from Ranchi’.

About the Author:
Gulu Ezekiel is one of India's best-known sports journalists and authors, with three decades of experience in print, and on radio, TV and Internet. He has previously been sports editor at the Asian Age, New Delhi TV and indya.com. Ezekiel is the author of 11 sports books, including seven on cricket, and has contributed to a dozen others published in India, Australia and England.
Based since 1991 in New Delhi, in August 2001 Gulu launched GE Features, a features and syndication service. He has contributed to over 100 publications around the world and regularly airs his views on sporting issues on various TV news channels.
This is his 12th book.