Former Bengal batter Prakash Poddar, who first recommended MS Dhoni to BCCI, has passed away. Poddar breathed his last on December 29 in Hyderabad. Poddar and his former Bengal teammate Raju Mukherjee had recommended Dhoni's name to the then BCCI's Talent Resource Development Wing (TRDW) head Dilip Vengsarkar. Poddar was fondly known as 'Lulu-da'.