Former India mental conditional coach Paddy Upton has revealed that MS Dhoni came up with a unique punishment to prevent players from coming late to practice during his time as ODI captain. Paddy Upton, who is currently promoting his book The Barefoot Coach, spoke about the mental solitude of former skipper Dhoni. He also recalled how Dhoni came up with an out-of-the-box punishment to prevent the members of the Indian team from coming late for training or team meetings. “When I joined the team Anil Kumble was the captain of the Test team and MS Dhoni was the captain of the ODI team. And then we had the same conversation with the one day team and there also MS (Dhoni) said that ‘yes there should be a consequence.

Source: dna May 15, 2019 12:21 UTC