CHENNAI, Dec 6: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team will felicitate world chess champion Viswanathan Anand on the opening day of their first cricket Test against England, beginning on Dec 11.

Dhoni will present Anand with a one carat diamond ring, worth approximately Rs 5 lakh, at a function organised by the All India Chess Federation, it was announced on Saturday.

Anand has returned home after defending his world title against Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in a match at Bonn, Germany in October.

The Indian chess ace has for the third time won the title after he first crowned himself in 2001 and then in 2007 and 2008 asserting his supremacy in all the their formats - knock-out, round-robin and matchplay - respectively to be among the all time greats of the sports.—Agencies