MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI
7th JULY, 1981, 41 Years
Ranchi, Jharkhand
23rd December, 2003
MS DHONI
Mahendra Singh Dhoni born 7 July 1981 is an Indian former international cricketer who was captain of the Indian national cricket team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. He is also the current captain of CSK in the IPL. He led India to victory in three ICC trophies 2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2011 Cricket World Cup and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, the most by any Indian captain. Under his captaincy India also won 2010 and 2016 Asia Cup. A right-handed wicket-keeper batsman, he scored over 10,000 runs in One Day Internationals, with the reputation as one of the best finishers in the game. He is also one of the greatest wicket-keepers in the history of cricket.
Records and Stats of MS DHONI
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CAREER OF MS DHONI
Dhoni made his ODI debut on 23 December 2004, against Bangladesh in Chittagong, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka.He played his first T20I also a year later against South Africa.In 2007, he took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid and he was also selected as T20I captain of India in this year.In 2008, he was selected as Test captain.His captaincy record in Tests format was mixed, successfully leading India to a series win against New Zealand in 2008 and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (home series in 2010 and 2013) against Australia while losing to Sri Lanka, Australia, England, and South Africa by big margins in away conditions.
Dhoni received India's highest sports honour, the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award in 2008 for his outstanding achievements and the Government of India honoured him India's fourth civilian award Padma Shri in 2009 and third civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2018.
SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES
The Instgram handle of MS Dhoni is @mahi7781 and the Facebook Handle of MS Dhoni is @MSDhoni
During his tenure as captain, MS Dhoni won all 3 ICC Trophies, which no other Indian captain in the history of cricket has achieved before.
MS Dhoni took only 0.08 seconds to stump out West Indies player Keemo Paul.In 538 international matches he has 195 stumpings to his name.
MS Dhoni is the only captain to whitewash Australia on their own soilin the past 140 years
.India defeated Australia by 4-0 in the Border-Gavaskar trophy in 2013
Ms Dhoni holds the record for finishing most number of ODI
games with a six
MS Dhoni is the first player to complete 10,000 ODI runs with 50+ average. In 350 odi matches he scored 10773 runs with an average of 50.6
MS Dhoni has in total 84 not outs in his career. At home, he has 32 not-outs in 127 total matches. At away, he remained 35 times not-out in 145 ODI matches.
MS Dhoni finished the 2011 world cup final with a six and lifted the world cup for india after 28 long years.The one and only player to win the World Cup with a Six.