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Although many sports are played in India, cricket is preferred over other sports. Many great cricketers born in India have taken Indian cricket to great heights.Mahendra Singh Dhoni is one of the great players. He is also known as MS Dhoni. I am going to give you Marathi information about Mahendra Singh Dhoni in this post.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born on 7 July 1981 in Rachi, Bihar. Mahendra among his acquaintances M. S. D. He was known by the nickname Mahi. When Mahendra was young, his parents migrated to Rachi from Uttarakhand. His father-Pan Singh was working in a junior management position in Mecon.
Dhoni has a sister Jayanthi Gupta and a brother Narendra Dhoni. While in school, Mahendra used to play badminton and football. He was the goal keeper of the school football team. The school’s football coach sent him to play cricket in a local cricket club.
Photo Although he had never played cricket before, his fielding skills impressed the school team and soon Mahi started fielding regularly at the Commando Cricket Club. From 1995 to 1998, he showed progress in field-defence. Mahi worked as a ‘Train Ticket Checker’ at Kharagpur Railway Station from 2001-2003.
Dhoni made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar at the age of 18 in the 1999-2000 season. In his debut match, he scored 68 against Assam. He scored 283 runs in five matches. In 2000-2001, Mahi scored his maiden century against Bengal.
Mahendra soon made a name for himself due to his powerful hitting. In the 2003–2004 season, Dhoni was selected to play for the India-A team for the tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya. He maintained his identity as a field-keeper during this tour. His good performance in the series caught the attention of the then captain of the Indian team Sourav Ganguly and Ravi Shastri. But, He was not selected in national team.
After failing in the series in Bangladesh, Mahi was selected for the one-day series in Pakistan. Mahendra scored 148 runs in the second match of the series. This score was not achieved by any other Indian fielder till then. Mahi then scored an unbeaten 183 against Sri Lanka. He was declared Man of the Series for his performance.
Later in 2006 against Pakistan, Dhoni performed well and I. C. C. He was ranked at the top of the list of the best ODI players.
India’s performance in the 2007 World Cup was not that impressive and Dhoni was not able to make much of an impact. After a disappointing World Cup innings, Mahendra was selected as vice-captain for the seven-match ODI series against South Africa in Ireland and the subsequent seven-match ODI series between India and England.
Dhoni has won many honors. Mahendra is the first Indian batsman to win the ICC ODI Player of the Year Award in 2008. Dhoni has been honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award as well as India’s fourth highest citizen in 2009 and captained Wisden’s first Dream Test XI.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has also been honoured with the Padma Shri award. Under the leadership of Dhoni, India sealed the ODI World Cup once again after 28 years. India won the Champions Trophy for the first time in 2023 when Dhoni was the captain.
i. C. C. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the first captain to win all the trophies. Dhoni’s fans in the cricketing world were stunned and somewhat disappointed after his retirement from Test matches in 2014. On 14 July 2018, Mahi became the second fielder to score 10,000 runs.
Dhoni is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. Dhoni is one of the players who captains the wicket-keeper while playing for the Indian junior team and the India ‘A’ team. Dinesh Karthik, Ajay Ratara and Parthiv Patel continued to follow the path shown by Mahendra and found success.
In August 2004, Mahi scored several centuries in partnership with Gautam Gambhir against Pakistan-A in the opening tri-series. In the same year, Mahendra was admitted to the Indian national team.
Dhoni is known for his powerful bottom hand grip and skillful play on the backfoot. His bat smashes into the bowler at a quick pace. Inside edge is a dominant feature of Dhoni’s style.
In the fifth ODI against Pakistan in 2005, Mahendra scored an impressive 148 runs on the scoreboard. This is the highest number of runs scored by any Indian wicketkeeper. The same year Dhoni not only broke his own record but also set a new record for the highest second innings score in an ODI by scoring 183 not out against Sri Lanka.
Mahendra’s success in limited-overs cemented his place in India’s Test team, and his aggressive and successful performances in the ODIs at the end of 2005–06 earned Dhoni the I. C. C. Ranked as the number one batsman in the ODI rankings.
But Dhoni’s performances were not satisfactory thereafter and India lost the ICC Champions Trophy, DLF Cup and bilateral series against South Africa and West Indies in 2006.
In early 2007, reports of Dhoni’s chart-topping performances against South Africa and the West Indies proved false. The Indian team was eliminated in the first round of the 2007 World Cup. But after the World Cup, Dhoni was declared Man of the Series in the bilateral ODI series against Bangladesh. Mahendra was then made vice-captain of the team for the England tour in 2007.
MS Dhoni World Cup India started the World Cup in 2011 well by defeating Bangladesh. They defeated Ireland, Netherlands and West Indies. South Africa beat India. But India was able to win over Pakistan. In the final match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai, Dhoni scored 91 runs to pull off a victory. Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the man of the match award.
After a successful innings against Sri Lanka, Dhoni selected Dinesh Karthik as his Test wicket-keeper in December 2005. When Dhoni came on the field in that match, the team was struggling at 109 for 5 wickets. But Dhoni displayed an aggressive game. In the second Test match, he scored a half-century and set a target of 436 runs ahead of Sri Lanka, India bowled out the Sri Lankan team for 247 runs.
India toured Pakistan in January-February 2006. Dhoni scored a century in the second Test. Dhoni and Irfan Pathan did their best to take India to safety. The team needed 107 runs to avoid the follow on. Dhoni played in his natural combative, aggressive style with a 34-ball fifty to complete his 93-ball century.
Under the leadership of Dhoni, India has won the most number of matches in T-20. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won 99 matches as the captain of Chennai Super Kings. As of this writing, Dhoni has led the team in 165 matches. Dhoni is the first cricketer to win 99 matches as captain.
Dhoni has led both Pune Rising Warriors and Chennai Super Kings effectively. While praising Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virat Kohli says, ‘Dhoni has the power to enrich India’s game.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the hero of Team India, reached the Everest of playing the most international T20 matches on February 10, 2019. Dhoni completed his 300th T20 International match in his third match against New Zealand. He has become the first Indian cricketer to reach this peak. Dhoni is the 12th player to play 300 or more T20 matches.
38 in his T20 international career. He has scored 3136 runs with 24 fifties at an average of 35.
After Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has undoubtedly become the most famous, popular player. All the best and salute to Dhoni for his career!
Under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India won all the matches in its group for the first time while playing World Cup matches in 2015. Mahendra also holds the record of winning 10 ODI matches.
Dhoni has many people in his personal life who are his childhood friends. Only one of his friends taught him to play helicopter shots. After his debut in international cricket, Dhoni fell in love with a girl named Priyanka. Later, Priyanka died in a car accident.
It is said in the movie MS Dhoni that Dhoni and Sakshi met in a hotel. Actually that is not true. The truth is that both Dhoni’s father and Sakshi’s father used to work in the same company. Surprisingly, Sakshi and Dhoni are also studying in the same school, but at the same time Dhoni stopped attending school, Sakshi had joined the school. Due to which Dhoni could not meet Sakshi at school. After some times, Sakshi’s family left Ranchi and move to Dehradun. Sakshi’s grandfather was already living in Dehradun.
Dhoni was selected in Team India for the series against Pakistan in November–December 2007, when the team was playing a match against Pakistan in Kolkata. It was in Kolkata that Dhoni met Sakshi. At that time, Sakshi met Dhoni where the Indian team was staying at the hotel.
It was Yudd Jeet Dutta’s hotel manager who introduced Dhoni to Sakshi. The day Dhoni and Sakshi met was the last day of Sakshi’s hotel internship, so Sakshi had left the hotel. Dhoni then tried to contact Sakshi by taking her number from the manager.
When Dhoni first messaged her, Sakshi thought someone was playing a joke on her. Later when she realizes that it is actually Dhoni and that he has become the captain of the Indian team, she can’t believe that the message was given to her by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain of the Indian team.
After convincing Sakshi for 2 months, Dhoni and Sakshi started dating each other and then they got married in 2010. Dhoni has a daughter Ziva who is just 5 years old.
Dhoni has hit 10 sixes in ODIs, his innings ranks sixth for most sixes.
Scored 183 runs in ODIs and broke Adam Gilchrist’s record for most runs by a wicketkeeper.
Dhoni also holds the record for most catches behind the wicket by an Indian wicketkeeper. Under the leadership of Dhoni, India scored the highest 726 runs.
Ms. Dhoni is the only captain to have scored a century in ODIs while batting at number seven.
Dhoni is the first Indian wicket-keeper to cross the 4000-run mark in Tests. Dhoni has led the most number of matches in all three formats of international cricket.
Under Dhoni’s leadership, India have won 110 out of 199 ODIs, 41 out of 72 T20Is and 27 out of 60 Test matches.
Dhoni has won the most tournament finals as a captain.
He became the first Indian wicketkeeper to take 300 catches in ODIs and the fourth wicketkeeper in the world.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the first and fifth player in the world to hit 200 sixes in ODIs. Batting at No. 6, he also holds the record for the highest runs in ODI career history.
Only one batsman with more than one century in ODI cricket has batted at No. 7 or lower (Dhoni has scored 2 centuries at No. 7)
People were surprised the day Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket. It was August 15, 2020, on this day Mahendra Singh Dhoni retired permanently from his 16-year long cricket career. Along with this announcement, millions of his fans on social media expressed their grief and many bigwigs also wished him this time.
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