It was hard to hold tears after we won World Cup: Dhoni

New Delhi: Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was so emotional after winning the World Cup early this year that he wept after the summit clash along with his teammates. “After the final match was over, all the players cried. I also cried though there was no footage of that anywhere. It was very difficult to control emotions as we all were dreaming of winning the World Cup,” said Dhoni, who was named the CNN-IBN Sportsperson of the Year yesterday. [caption id=“attachment_158663” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“India’s captain MS Dhoni. AFP”]  [/caption] “I was crying and when I looked up, all the other players were forming a huddle around me. I ran to the dressing room and there I saw two players crying and running towards me,” said Dhoni in a video recorded before the team left for Australia. Dhoni said it was a great achievement for India to have won the World Cup as no host country had ever bagged the coveted trophy. “It was a special achievement as no host country has ever won the World Cup before and we are winning it for the first time after 1983. Pressure was very high as all the Indian cricket fans want us to win the World Cup. And we knew that if the 15 players selected remained injury-free and played to our potential (sic) we would win the World Cup,” he said. PTI