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MS Dhoni

Dhoni at an event in January 2013.Personal information

Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Born7 July 1981 (age 32)Ranchi, Bihar, India

Nickname Mahi, MS, MSDHeight 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)Batting style Right-hand batsmanBowling style Right-arm mediumRole Wicket-keeper, India captain

International information

National side India

Test debut (cap 251) 2 December 2005 v Sri LankaLast Test 14 February 2014 v New ZealandODI debut (cap 158) 23 December 2004 v BangladeshLast ODI 28 January 2014 v New ZealandODI shirt no. 7T20I debut (cap 2) 1 December 2006 v South AfricaLast T20I 10 October 2013 v Australia

Domestic team informationYears Team

1999/00–2004/05 Bihar2004/05–present Jharkhand2008–present Chennai Super Kings

Career statisticsCompetition Test ODI FC T20Is

Matches 81 243 122 43

Runs scored 4,342 8,046 6,504 772Batting average 38.76 53.28 37.16 32.16

100s/50s 6/28 9/54 9/42 0/0Top score 224 183* 224 48*

Balls bowled 90 36 120 –Wickets 0 1 0 –

Bowling average – 31.00 – –5 wickets in innings – – – –10 wickets in match – – – –

Best bowling – 1/14 – –Catches/stumpings 219/37 224/80 327/56 22/8

Source: ESPNCricinfo, 31 January 2014

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (  pronunciation (help·info), commonly known as M. S. Dhoni; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is an attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest finishers in limited-overs cricket.[1][2][3][4] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka.

Dhoni is the captain of India in all three forms of the game. His Test and ODI records are the best among all Indian captains to date. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the final of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to victory for which he was awarded the Man of the Match. After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he led the team to series wins in New Zealand and West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one position for the first time in the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India became the first team in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In June 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all the three ICC trophies. He has also captained the Chennai Super Kings to victory in the 2010 and 2011 seasons of Indian Premier League along with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.

Dhoni holds the post of Vice-President of India Cements Ltd. after resigning from Air India. India Cements is the owner of the IPL team Chennai Super Kings, and Dhoni has been its captain since the first edition of IPL.[5][6]

Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the award twice), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009. He was named as the captain of ICC World Test XI and ICC World ODI XI teams for 2009. The Indian Territorial Army conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel [7] to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to have received this honour. In June 2014, Forbes

ranked Dhoni at 22nd in the list of highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his earnings at US$30 million.[8][9][10][11][12][13] In June 2013,Forbes ranked him at 16th with $31.5 million.[14][15][16]

[17] The TIME magazine has added Dhoni in its "Time 100" list of 100 most influential people of 2011.[18] SportsPro has rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world.[19]

Contents

1 Early life and background 2 Personal life 3 Playing style 4 Early career

o 4.1 Junior cricket in Bihar o 4.2 Bihar cricket team o 4.3 Jharkhand cricket team o 4.4 India A team

5 ODI career 6 Test career 7 Captain of India

o 7.1 Match bans o 7.2 World Cup

8 Indian Premier League o 8.1 Season by season at IPL

9 Statistics and records o 9.1 ODI cricket o 9.2 ODI records o 9.3 Record in international cricket o 9.4 Test cricket o 9.5 Test records

10 Captaincy record 11 Honorary Awards and Appreciations 12 Endorsements 13 Mahi Racing Team India 14 Notes 15 External links

Early life and background

Dhoni was born in Ranchi, Bihar (now in Jharkhand),[20] and he identifies as being a Rajput.[21] His paternal village Lvali is in the Lamgarha block of the Almora District of Uttarakhand. Dhoni's parents, moved from Uttarakhand to Ranchi where Pan Singh worked in junior management positions in MECON. Dhoni has a sister Jayanti Gupta and a brother Narendra Singh Dhoni.[22][23] Dhoni is a fan of Adam Gilchrist, and his childhood idols were cricket teammate Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and singer Lata Mangeshkar [24] [25]

Dhoni studied at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali, Ranchi, Jharkhand where he initially excelled in badminton and football and was selected at district and club level in these sports. Dhoni was a goalkeeper for his football team and was sent to play cricket for a local cricket club by his football coach. Though he had not played cricket, Dhoni impressed with his wicket-keeping skills and became the regular wicketkeeper at the Commando cricket club (1995–1998). Based on his performance at club cricket, he was picked for the 1997/98 season Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 Championship and he performed well.[23] Dhoni focused on cricket after his 10th standard.[26] Dhoni was a Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway station from 2001 to 2003, under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore (W), a district in West Bengal. His colleagues remember him as a very honest, straightforward employee of the Indian Railways. But he also had a mischievous side to his personality. Once, while staying at the railway quarters, Dhoni and a couple of his friends covered themselves in white bedsheets and walked around in the complex late in the night. The night guards were fooled into believing that there were ghosts moving around in the complex. The story made big news on the next day.[27][28][29]

Personal life

Sakshi Singh Rawat, Dhoni's wife

Dhoni married Sakshi Singh Rawat, a native of Dehradun, Uttarakhand, on 4 July 2010. At the time of their marriage, she was studying Hotel Management and was working as a trainee at the Taj Bengal, Kolkata. After the retirement of Sakshi’s father from his tea growing business, their family shifted to their native place, Dehradun.

The wedding stumped the media and the fans as it took place only a day after the couple got engaged.[30][31] Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu, a close friend of Dhoni, was quick to inform the media that the wedding was planned for months and was not a spur of the moment decision.[32]

Playing style

Dhoni is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Dhoni is among the wicket-keepers who have come through the ranks of junior and India A cricket teams to represent the national team. Parthiv Patel, Ajay Ratra and Dinesh Karthik also followed this route.

Dhoni tends to play mostly from the back foot with a pronounced bottom hand grip. He has a very high bat speed through the ball which often results in the ball racing across the ground. From this initial stance his feet do not show much movement which sometimes results in chasing balls while not coming to the pitch of the ball or some deliveries catching the inside edge.

Early career

Junior cricket in Bihar

In 1998 Dhoni was selected by Deval Sahay to play for the Central Coal Fields Limited (CCL) team.[33] Dhoni was included in the Bihar U-19 squad for the 1998-99 season and scored 176 runs in 5 matches (7 innings) as the team finished fourth in the group of six and did not make it to the quarter-finals. Dhoni was not picked for the East Zone U-19 squad (CK Nayudu Trophy) or Rest of India squad (MA Chidambaram Trophy and Vinoo Mankad Trophy). Bihar U-19 cricket team advanced to the finals of the 1999–2000 Cooch Behar Trophy where Dhoni made 84 to help Bihar post a total of 357. Bihar's efforts were dwarfed by Punjab U-19s' 839 with Dhoni's future national squad teammate Yuvraj Singh making 358.[34] Dhoni's contribution in the tournament included 488 runs (9 matches, 12 innings), 5 fifties, 17 catches and 7 stumpings.[35] Dhoni made it to the East Zone U-19 squad for the CK Nayudu trophy but scored only 97 runs in four matches as East Zone lost all four matches and finished last in the tournament.

Bihar cricket team

Dhoni made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar in the 1999–2000 season as an eighteen-year-old. He made a half century in his debut match scoring 68* in the second innings against Assam cricket team.[36] Dhoni finished the season with 283 runs in 5 matches. Dhoni scored his maiden first-class century while playing for Bihar against Bengal in the 2000/01 season in a losing cause.[37] Apart from this century, his performance in the 2000/01 season[38] did not include another score over fifty and in the 2001/02 season he scored just five fifties in four Ranji matches.[39]

Jharkhand cricket team