Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army, interacted with budding cricketers in the Uri town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.

The Srinagar-based Chinar Corps of the Army tweeted photographs and a video of Dhoni playing and talking to young cricketers of the region.

Dhoni, on the video, tells the cricketers to focus on their fitness.

“I have played badminton, hockey as well as football. I have benefited from it because it increased my fitness. We used to play in a huge ground where seniors also used to play and till the time they finished, we used to run, which increased our fitness,” the wicketkeeper-batsman told them.