After announcing his decision to resign as captain of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), MS Dhoni passed the baton to Ravindra Jadeja on March 24, leading up to IPL 2022. In a mid-day interview, ex-CSK and Indian Cricket teammate Kedar Jadhav shared his experience of playing under Dhoni: “The players were willing to do anything for him, he commanded that kind of respect.”

‘Not everyone can be a leader,’ seems like an outdated idea when Pearl D’Souza McKenzie, director of PrePearl Training Development in Mumbai — a leadership-building organisation that specialises in team effectiveness — explains that leaders don’t need to emerge from the same mould with the same qualities of being dominant or extroverted. She continues, “Each individual has their unique and authentic style. One may have a quiet strong presence and so, their leadership style may lie in building one-on-one connections rather than being dominant and directive. Leaders come in different styles.”