Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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MS Dhoni

Dhoni at a promotional event in January 2013

Personal information Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni 7 July 1981 (age 32) Ranchi, Bihar, India

Born

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) Last Test ODI debut (cap 158) Last ODI ODI shirt no. T20I debut (cap 2) Last T20I

India 2 December 2005 v Sri Lanka 18-21 December 2013 v South Africa 23 December 2004 v Bangladesh 8 December 2013 v South Africa 7 1 December 2006 v South Africa 10 October 2013 v Australia

Domestic team information Years 1999/002004/05 2004/052008present Bihar Jharkhand Chennai Super Kings Career statistics
Competition Matches

Team

Test 79

ODI 237 120

FC

T20Is 43

Runs scored Batting average 100s/50s Top score Balls bowled Wickets Bowling average 5 wickets in innings 10 wickets in match Best bowling Catches/stumpings

4,255 39.39 6/28 224[1] 78 0

7,774 52.88 9/51 183* 36 1 31.00

6,417 37.52 9/42 224 108 0

772 32.16 0/0 48*

216/37

1/14 220/79

324/56

22/8

Source: ESPNCricinfo, 11 December 2013

Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( pronunciation (helpinfo), 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.[2][3][4][5] 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 just 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. Dhoni became the first captain to win all the ICC trophies, he achieved this feat when India defeated England in champions trophy in England on June 2013. 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 also 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.[6][7] Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), 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[8] to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to have received this honour. In June 2013, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 16th in the list of highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his earnings at $31.5 million.[9][10][11][12] The TIME magazine has added Dhoni in its "Time 100" list of 100 most influential people of 2011.[13] SportsPro has rated Dhoni as the 16th most remarkable athlete in the world.[14]