MS Dhoni’s achievement as a cricketer is surreal, to say the least. In particular, he has etched his name in the history books as one of India’s finest leaders.

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Dhoni is the only skipper in the history of cricket to have won all the three ICC trophies – 2007 World T20, 2011 Cricket World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy. The veteran wicketkeeper has also led India to the pinnacle in Test cricket while he has captained Chennai Super Kings to three IPL titles and two Champions League trophies.

Despite achieving all this, he remained a down to earth person over the years and still continues to be. Recently, former India batsman Sunil Gavaskar revealed his humble side, saying Dhoni hardly ever sat in business class on domestic flights even when he was skipper.

"The Indian team has a lovely system of rewarding its players especially in home matches. As most Indian cricket followers know, during the Indian domestic international season, both teams travel in a special chartered flight from one venue to the next.

"The flight also carries the technical TV crew who have to rig the cables for the next game. There are limited seats in business class and the captains, coaches and managers of the teams get these.

"It is here that those Indian players, who have done well in their previous game, get to sit there as a reward rather than the economy class behind.

"Mahendra Singh Dhoni hardly ever sat in business class on these flights even when he was the skipper as he would prefer to sit with the real champs of the TV coverage, the cameramen and the sound engineers," Gavaskar wrote in his column for the Mid-Day.

It seems that current captain Virat Kohli has picked up this trait from his predecessor. During the 2018-19 Australia tour, former England cricketer Michael Vaughan had tweeted that he saw Kohli and his wife Anushka Sharma giving up their business class seats to Indian fast bowlers on a flight from Adelaide to Perth.