Watch: Mikyo Dorji, Bhutan’s 1st player to register in IPL auction, shares video with Dhoni: His advice ‘stuck with me’ | Cricket

The mega public sale for the 2022 Indian Premier League attracted a complete of 1,214 gamers from around the globe. Certainly one of these gamers is the primary from his nation to register for the match – Mikyo Dorji from Bhutan. Dorji has performed towards the likes of Shahid Afridi in the course of the 2021 version of the Everest Premier League (Nepal), and hopes to create historical past by changing into the primary Bhutanese to fetch an IPL contract.

Forward of the mega public sale, Dorji took to his official Instagram profile to share an image and a video with former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who led the Chennai Tremendous Kings to a fourth IPL title in 2021. Dorji had met Dhoni final 12 months and the previous shared an excellent piece of recommendation from the ‘Captain Cool’ on his Instagram submit.

‘Hold it easy. Focus extra on the method and fewer on the outcomes. If you happen to get the method proper you’ll get the consequence. And revel in, don’t take an excessive amount of strain’. Ever for the reason that nice MS Dhoni gave me this piece of recommendation, it has at all times caught with me,” Dorji captioned the submit.

Bhutan grew to become an affiliate member of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) in 2019 and have since performed in two T20Is – towards Maldives and Nepal. Dorji was a part of the XI which took on Nepal in 2019.

In an interview, Dorji additionally acknowledged that it’s his “final dream” to play within the IPL.

“Taking part in within the IPL is an final dream for me. Individuals noticed that there was one participant within the public sale record from Bhutan and my mates began calling me. However they don’t know (laughs) that that is simply the preliminary spherical, and the names are going to be shortlisted additional. If I’m sincere to myself, my title is not going to be there in the primary record after it’s trimmed. In any case, simply registering is a giant deal for Bhutan,” Dorji instructed the New Indian Categorical.

The mega public sale for the 2022 IPL takes place on February 12-13.