The men behind Dhoni's crores
An unassuming basement office in a residential colony in South Delhi gives no indication that they're the establishment which has struck a record deal with India's captain, MS Dhoni
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
An unassuming basement office in a residential colony in South Delhi gives no indication that they're the establishment which has struck a record deal with India's captain, MS Dhoni. Rhiti Sports Management is run by Arun Pandey, a friend of Dhoni's, and Sangeet Shirodkar, who used to manage Harbhajan Singh. Ratna Bhushan and Avinash Singh of the Economic Times caught up with the pair, who talk about working with their biggest client yet.
It seems to have robbed him of sleep, though. Sporting a two-day stubble and the after-effects of a siesta, Pandey is slumped in a plush leather chair behind a huge mahogany desk. There’s no trace of polish in his ways, not even an effort to project it. Fiddling with his two BlackBerry’s, eyes constantly wavering to detect incoming activity on them, Pandey, 33, smiles a knowing smile. Next to him, Rhiti’s marketing man, Sangeet Shirodkar, a cherubic 25-year-old, does the same.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo