Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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MS Dhoni

Dhoni at an event in January 2013.
Personal information
Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born
7 July 1981 (age 32)
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
India
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
1999/002004/05 Bihar
2004/05present Jharkhand
2008present 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 ( 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 200708, 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.
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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.
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In June 2013,Forbes ranked him at 16th with $31.5
million.
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The TIME magazine has added Dhoni in its "Time 100" list of 100 most
influential people of 2011.
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SportsPro has rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete
in the world.
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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),
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and he identifies as being a Rajput.
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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.
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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 (19951998).
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.
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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.
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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 Sakshis 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.
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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.
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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 19992000 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.
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Dhoni's contribution in the
tournament included 488 runs (9 matches, 12 innings), 5 fifties, 17 catches and 7 stumpings.
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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 19992000 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.
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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.
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Jharkhand cricket team