MSD(Dhoni) connection

You would wonder what connection would I possibly have with Dhoni, not much except may be for the fact that we both lived in the same city (Ranchi) within a distance of one km for a period of 2 years(2001-2003). Actually the connection would have been more deeper had fate not intervened, and I missed the cutoff of DAV JVM ,Shyamali ( the Alma mater of MSD ) by a mere 4 marks. The miss rankled me for some time though for a different reason. At that time about 40 students of DAV Shyamali would get into IITs as compared to around 20 students of DPS (where I eventually got admitted). It was another matter that DAV JVM had twice the number of students in comparison to DPS. But it had a better reputation for outside students and as later I got to know that its schedule was much more relaxed. Though I had a lot of smaller consolations . Firstly the hostel in which I lived, had a lot of guys from DAV JVM. So I came to know a lot of things about it like brilliant guys who were tipped to be IIT toppers from city (an unknown guy from DPS actually became the city IIT topper with AIR 40) , hot and not so hot gals who were the cynosure of boys' eyes and different teachers along with their peculiar mannerisms. Then I gave a lot of FIITJEE tests there. Lastly my boards were held in DAV JVM. I almost felt at home there and began to believe that it was my second school (analogous to second home).
Now coming to Dhoni, the first time (actually the only time) I saw him was way back in December 2002. that time Bihar was playing Karnataka in a Ranji trophy match in Mecon stadium. That day i had my first round of Physics olympiad and after my test I stopped to watch the game. Bihar was following on and ultimately lost the match but a young batsman blasted the karnataka attack to a quickfire 93. That day I failed to qualify for the second round of Olympiad however that young man started his journey to become one of the most iconic man in Indian cricket. His name was Mahinder Singh Dhoni. I guess in life someone's loss turns out to be someone else's gain. Jokes apart, I feel really proud of whatever he has achieved since being a keen cricket follower from Bihar, it used to trouble me that no one from this region has made it big in Indian team. But I just hope that his success at big stage would inspire others to follow suit.
( PS: MS Dhoni is the captain of Chennai IPL team and is reported to purchase a house there in near future. Now i got one more reason to relocate to Chennai (if it comes to that) to have the connection deeper.)