Friday, 11 July 2014


MS Dhoni
Dhoni at Reebok event.jpg
Dhoni at an event in January 2013.
Personal information
Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born 7 July 1981 (age 33)
Ranchi, Bihar, India
Nickname Mahi, MS, MSD
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role Wicket-keeper, India captain
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 251) 2 December 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 14 February 2014 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 158) 23 December 2004 v Bangladesh
Last ODI 28 January 2014 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 7
T20I debut (cap 2) 1 December 2006 v South Africa
Last T20I 10 October 2013 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
1999/00–2004/05 Bihar
2004/05–present Jharkhand
2008–present Chennai Super Kings
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC T20Is
Matches 81 243 122 43
Runs scored 4,342 8,046 6,504 772
Batting average 38.76 53.28 37.16 32.16
100s/50s 6/28 9/54 9/42 0/0
Top 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 (About this sound pronunciation , 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]

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