OK, what’s weirder: That SbB is running a cricket story? Or that we’ve actually run a story on this specific cricketer before?

You might remember Mahendra Singh Dhoni from that time he hired a bunch of female commandos to protect him from overzealous female admirers. I thought that was the pinnacle of popularity, but I neglected to consider deification. Fans in India are building a temple devoted to him, and will hereforth worship him as a god.
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Posted by
Tuffy on Jul. 15, 2008, 10:15am
An Indian cricket star, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has been so overwhelmed by young women and girls charging at him (including bolting onto the field during a match for hugs) that local authorities in India have been forced to step up their protection of the beleaguered batsman with women commandos surrounding his home while he tries to rest between tests.

The authorities feel the women commandos will be able to handle the throngs of admirers better “as they can do the job with ease”. We assume this means they can manhandle (womanhandle?) women better. We also don’t know how Russ Meyer never made a Bollywood film, now that we think about it.
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