He doesn't know if the cricketer in him is any different since fatherhood but Mahendra Singh Dhoni says daughter Ziva has certainly changed the person that he is, especially in his attempts to keep her on the "backfoot". The 37-year-old talismanic former India skipper, who is basking in the glory of leading Chennai to the T20 League title earlier this year, spoke on the rarely touched subject of his life after fatherhood in a show for 'Star Sports'.

"I don't know whether it has changed me as a cricketer, as a person yes of course because daughters are very close to their fathers," Dhoni said. "In my case the problem is when she (Ziva) was born I was not there (three years ago), most of the time I was playing cricket, so everything bad somehow is thrown at me (to deal with)," he added.