By Online Desk

Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni is currently playing for the team of his home state Jharkhand in the Vijay Hazare Trophy where he is having a great go with the bat scoring 195 runs from four matches which also include a massive century (129) against Chhattisgarh.



Recently the world cup winning skipper was in Kolkata for one of the matches where he bumped into Thomas, a chaiwala, the owner of a tea shop that Dhoni used to frequent while he was working as a ticket collector for South Eastern Railway at Kharagpur. Thomas had come all the way from Kharagpur to Kolkata to get a glimpse of Dhoni.



Dhoni recognized Thomas instantaneously despite not having met him for almost over a decade. It was a heartwarming scene, straight out of the movies, when the Ranchi lad embraced Thomas and invited him for a grand dinner at the hotel where the team was staying.



Thomas was moved by Dhoni's gesture and announced that he would rename his tea stall in Kharagpur, Dhoni Tea Stall, in his cricketer pal's honour.

Fans of Dhoni were already all praise for their idol after he skipped the comfort of air travel and instead joined his teammates by train from Ranchi to Howrah to reach Kolkata for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

He said he chose to travel by train so that he could spend more time with his teammates. Dhoni's simplicity and warmth are winning qualities that endear him to his huge multitudes of fans, young and old, time and time again.