MS Dhoni

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Name : Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Birth Date : 7 July 1981.

Birth Place : Ranchi, Jharkhand (Before Bihar).

Nation : India.

Height : 5 Feet 10 Inch.

Roles :  Wicketkeeper, Right Handed Batsman, Right Arm Medium Bowler.

Family :  Pan Singh (Father)

                 Devaki Devi (Mother)

                 Narendra Singh Dhoni (Brother)

                 Jayanti Gupta (Sister)

                 Sakshi Dhoni (Wife)

                 Ziva Dhoni (Daughter)

Teams : India (2004-2020), 

               Bihar (1999-2004),

               Jharkhand (2004/05-Present),

               Chennai Super Kings (2008-2015, 2018-*)

               Rising Pune Supergiant (2016-2017).

Nicknames : Mahi, Thala, MSD, Captain Cool.

One Day International Statistics (ODIs) :

BATTING : Matches-350, Innings-297, Runs-10773, Average-50.58, Strike Rate-87.56, 50/100-73/10, 4/6-826/228, Highest Score-183*.

Bowling : Matches-350, Innings-2, Wickets-1, Average-31.00, Economic-5.77.

WicketKeeping : Catches-321, Stumping-123.

TESTs :

Batting : Matches-90, Innings-144, Runs-4876, Average-38.39, Strike Rate-59.11, 50/100-33/6, 4/6-543/78, Highest Score-224.

Bowling : Matches-90, Innings-7, Wickets-0, Economic-4.19.

WicketKeeping : Catches-256, Stumpings-38.

T20s :

Batting : Matches-98, Innings-85, Runs-1617, Average-37.60, Strike Rate-126.13, 50/100-2/0, 4/6-116/52, Highest Score-56.

WicketKeeping : Catches-57, Stumpings-34.

He is an indian cricketer who established himself as a great captain and great player too. Everyone knows him as a captain cool. 

Early Life :

He was born in Ranchi, Jharkhand (At the time of birth in Bihar) and he belongs from Hindu Rajput family. His father works in MECON as Junior Management Position. Mahi is a big fan of Adam Gilchrist, Sachin Tendulkar and in bollywood Amitabh Bachchan and Lata Mangeshkar. 

He also played badminton and football in his school team DAV Jawahar vidya mandir, Ranchi and for district and club level. He was a goalkeeper in football team and sent to play school cricket match as a Wicketkeeper by his football coach. With his impressive keeping skills letter he is regular keeper for commondo cricket club in 1995 to 1998. Letter he was selected for the vinoo Mankad trophy U-16 in 1997-98 based on his club cricket performance. He impressed everyone with his ability in vinoo mankad trophy as well. Once Dhoni was ticket checker at kharagpur Railway station in 2001-2003.

Domestic Career :

Dhoni's first Professional Cricket team is Central CoalFields Limited (CCL). He was selected in that team by Deval Sahay. Dhoni's stand out performance impresses the Deval Sahay and he used his contacts in Bihar Cricket Association to push his name selection for Bihar Crickete Team.

In 1998-1999 he was selected for the Bihar U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy where he played 7 matches and scored 176 runs in 5 Innings. In 1999-2000 he selected for the Bihar Ranji Trophy team. When he debuted for the Bihar in Ranji trophy he was just eighteen years of age. After playing Ranji trophy for three years dhoni was selected for the East Zone over international cricketer Deep Dasgupta.Dhoni was search from BCCI's small town talent spotting initiative, TRDW and find by TRDO Prakash Poddar. Dhoni was picked for India-A squad for Zimbabwe and kenya. His stand-out performance in that tour makes the attention of captain Sourav Ganguly.

International Career :

One Day Internationals (ODI's) :

Dhoni comes in limelight when team india struggling to find his regular keeper batsmans in 2000s. There are such high ranks keeper in the list after Dravid, Likes of Dinesh Karthik and Parthiv Patel. But Dhoni makes him suitable for keeper batsman position. And he was selected for the Indias ODI team for Bangladesh tour in 2004. But his International start is very disastrous and he was Run Out in this match on 0 Run. After his dissent performance in Bangladesh tour he was selected for the Pakistan tour. And in the second match of that series Dhoni Scored century. He scored century in his only Fifth One Day Internationals. He scored 148 runs from 123 balls. And from then Dhoni never looked back. After pakistan tour dhoni picked for Srilanka series. In that series he was promoted for the third number. He scored 183 runs in that match in kanpur and became the highest run scored by a Wicketkeeper batsman. In 2005 Dhoni also rewarded by BCCI with B grade annual contract.

Test Career :

In 2005 After his brilliant performance in Srilanka series he was picked for India's Test side replaces Dinesh Karthik. He scored not out 30 runs in Debut match, that was spoiled by Rain. Dhoni Scored his first Half Century in his second match with quick fire in just 51 balls. India toured pakistan in February 2006. where he scored his first Test century in Faisalabad. He played his last series in 2014 in Australian. After trailing by 0-2 Dhoni announced his retirement from Tests. He also became first indian captain to take india on No.1 in Test Rankings tally.

Twenty-20 Internationals (T-20) Career :

Dhoni played his first match in 2006 and also that is indias first T-20 match as well against South Africa. Letter in 2007 Dhoni was selected as Indias captain in first ever T-20 World Cup. His name was suggested by senior indian Players like Sachin Tendulkar. India played that world cup without coach and with very young team. After Kapil Dev, Dhoni became second captain to win world cup in any format. On 24 September 2007 in South Africa he created the history. 

World cups :

Dhoni is the only captain to won Two World Cups in 2 Two different formats. First he won T-20 world cup in 2007 in South africa. He led very young team in that world cup.

Second he won ODI World Cup in 2011 in India. India won that world after 28 years. He was awarded with man of the match in final match of the world cup. He scored 91 not out runs in 72 balls and help his side to win the world cup.

Other ICC Tournaments :

He also won the Champions trophy in England in 2014. 

Indian Premier league (IPL) Career :

Chennai Super Kings buys him for US$1.5 Millions. He was the most expensive player on that auction. He was captaining Chennai Super Kings from first edition of IPL to 2015. He led his team to won three titles In 2010, 2011 and 2018. He also won 2 Champion League T20  for CSK in 2010 and 2014. He is the most successful captain in IPL.

After CSK's 2 years of ban. In 2016-2017 he played for Rising Pune Supergiant. Pune bought him for US$1.9 millions.he only captained pune in 2016 edition of IPL.

After completion of CSK's ban Dhoni returns in CSK and led this side from 2017 to present.

Records :

Overall :

Most International matches as captain in all format : 332.

Only Wicketkeeper who have more than 150 Stumpings dismissals in all format - 161.

Tests :

First indian captain to take india on No 1 in Test rankings tally in 2009.

Most successful winning captain of the india with 27 wins.

Most overseas defeats by an indian captain 15

Only indian Wicketkeeper who scored 4000 runs.

Third highest individual runs scored as indian captain 224 runs. scored against Australia in chennai.

50 sixes hits as indian captain.

Most dismissals as indian Wicketkeeper 294.

Most stumping by any keeper 38.

ODI's :

First non Australian and Third overall captain who won 100 matches.

Fourth player to scored 10000 runs for india.

Only player to scored 10000 runs with average of over 50.

Fifth highest Batting average with more than 5000 runs 51.09.

Highest runs on No 6 batting position 4031.

Most no of not outs in ODI's 82.

Fifth overall and first Indian to hits 200 sixes.

Highest individual run scorer in ODI's as wicketkeeper 183 Not Out against Srilanka.

Indias highest eight wicket partnership in ODI'S - 100 runs, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Dhoni.

Highest average and most unbeatable innings in successful ODI run chases.

Most dismissals by an indian Wicketkeeper 432.

Most dismissals in single innings by an indian keeper 6.

Most stumping by an keeper overall 120.

Fouth overall and First indian keeper to take 300 catches as wicketkeeper.

T20 :

Most number of T20 wins as a captain 41.

Most matches as a Wicketkeeper and captain 72.

Most consecutive innings without duck 81.

Dhoni played most T20 internationals 76.

Most dismissals by an keeper 87.

Most catches as a keeper 54.

Most Stumping by keeper 33.

Most catches in an innings by a keeper 5.

Awards :

2007-08 - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, Indias highest honour for achievement in sports. 

2008,2009 - Twice have been awarded with ICC ODI player of the year.

2009 - Padma Shri Award, Indias fourth highest civilian award.

2011 - Castrol Indian Cricketer Of The Year.

2018 - Padma Bhushan Award, Indias third highest civilian award.

ICC World ODI 11 - ( Captained for 2009, 2011-2014), 2006 2008-2014. 

ICC World Test 11 - 2009, 2010, 2013.

Other Awards And Honours :

2006 - MTV Youth Icon Of The Year.

2013 - LG People's Choice Award.

August 2011- Awarded with Honorary Doctorate Dergee be De MontFort University.

Movie :

In 2016, biographical movie made based on his life in bollywood named MS Dhoni : The Untold Story.

Movie was Directed by Neeraj Pandey. And Sushant Singh Rajput played the role of Dhoni in that movie.