India, May 10 -- Sanju Samson's first season at Chennai Super Kings has already carried the numbers. It now has the emotion behind it. The wicketkeeper-batter, one of CSK's key performers in IPL 2026, opened up on his long-standing admiration for MS Dhoni and said sharing the same dressing room with the former India captain feels "more than a dream." Samson made the comments on the Super Kings Podcast, where he traced his fandom back to his childhood and recalled how Dhoni's rise in Indian cricket left a lasting impression on him.

Sanju Samson said his earliest memory of Dhoni came from the period when the former India captain first broke into the national side, sporting his long hair. Dhoni's early international career began quietly, bu...