MS Dhoni Biography (Cricketer)

MS Dhoni Biography

Real Name:	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Nick Name:	Mahi, Captain Cool, Thala
Professional:	Indian Cricketer (WK-Batsman)
Zodiac sign:	Cancer
Date of Birth:	July 7, 1981
Age:	37 Years Old
Place of Birth:	Ranchi, India
Nationality Side:	Indian
Height:	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight:	kilograms- 75 kg In pounds- 154 lbs
Religion:	Hinduism
Education:-	Gossner College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Education Qualifications:	Bachelor of Commerce
Net Worth:	$111 million

MS Dhoni Cricket Career Information

Batting Style:	Right Handed Bat
Bowling Style:	Right-arm medium
Likes To Play Against:	Pakistan & Australia
Playing Role:	WK-Batsman
Professional Debut:	Test debut: Dec 02, 2005 vs Sri Lanka ODI debut: Dec 23, 2004, vs Bangladesh T20 debut: Dec 01, 2006, vs South Africa IPL debut: Apr 19, 2008, vs Kings XI Punjab

MS Dhoni Family Biography

Father Name:	Pan Singh
Mother Name:	Devaki Devi
Brother Name:	Narendra Singh Dhoni
Sister Name:	Jayanti Gupta
Material Status:	Married
Wife/Spouse Name:	Sakshi Dhoni (m. 2010)
Children Name:	Daughter: Ziva Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Childhood and Early Life

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born on 7th July 1981 at Ranchi, Bihar (in present Jharkhand) located in the east corner of India. He is commonly known as M.S. Dhoni, he has different nicknames in the cricket world. He studied at DAV Jawar Vidya Mandir, Ranchi, Jharkhand, where Dhoni was initially interested in Badminton and football. He was selected at the district and club levels for these sports. For his football team, he was a goalkeeper, and for a local cricket club, he was sent to play cricket by his football coach. He had not played cricket before this, but while playing with the club as the wicketkeeper, soon his passion for cricket grew. After Dhoni’s 10th standard he focused on cricket.

M.S was a Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway station from the years 2001 to 2003, under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore, West Bengal.

M.S. Dhoni Family

Mahendra Singh Dhoni comes from a typical family, Dhoni’s father Pan Singh worked in MECON at the position of junior manager, his mother’s name is Devki Devi and she is a housewife. Dhoni has one elder brother Narendra Singh, who is a politician, and a sister Jayanti Gupta, who is a teacher.

M.S. Dhoni Marriage

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sakshi Singh got married on 4th July 2010. Sakshi is a native of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Sakshi was studying Hotel Management and also working as a trainee at the Taj Bengal, Kolkata, at the time when she first met Dhoni. After the retirement of her father from the tea garden, Sakshi’s family moved to their native place, Dehradun. The married couple had their first baby on 6th February 2015, their daughter’s name is Ziva Dhoni.

Sakshi Dhoni is a Truly lucky charm for Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian team skipper while Sakshi Singh is a girl from Dehradun but she is a truly lucky charm for Dhoni. M.S. Dhoni’s career took a big and great leap, his business interests widened significantly. M.S. Dhoni perhaps to manage his growing empire, entrusted his wife to enter into joint ventures with a few companies.

Early Career of MS Dhoni

Dhoni was able to perform wicketkeeping particularly well which allowed him to enter a local cricket club named Commando Cricket Club where Dhoni played from 1995 to 1998. In the season 1997-1998, Dhoni’s tremendous performances in the Vinoo Mankad Under-16 Championship caught the eye of the selectors.

Dhoni was picked to the Bihar Under-19 squad in the next season. In this season his improved and mature batting and keeping performances provided him to be selected to the Bihar Ranji Trophy squad for the season of 1999/00. MS Dhoni made his debut against the Assam team by giving an unbeaten score of 68.

By the season 2003, Dhoni scored his first century the next season but was only made an average of around 40 per game. In 2003, Dhoni was selected to the India A team for the tour to Kenya to play a tri-series tournament, in this tri-series Pakistan A was the third team with India A and Kenya. In this tri-series, Dhoni scored 362 runs at an average of 72.40. He made back-to-back centuries against Pakistan.

M.S. Dhoni as a Captain

In 2007, Dhoni was made the captain of the OI team and in 2008 he was made the Teat team captain. In 2009 Dhoni scored 1198 runs in 24 innings with an average of 70.43 to be the top scorer of the year in One Day Internationals.

In a row from 2008-to 2013, MSD has been part of the ICC World ODI XI for six years. The highest sports honor of India “Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna” has been given by the government of India to M.S. Dhoni for his outstanding performances.

In 2013 Mahi advertises more than 15 products and he is one of the most marketable cricketers and players in the world. MS Dhoni was reported to be the 16th highest paid sportsman in the world in June 2013 with yearly earnings of $ 31 million. MS Dhoni is one of the most successful Indian sportsmen.

Dhoni is the most successful Indian Captain that India ever had. Dhoni led the Indian team to 27 Test matches successfully in 60 Tests and 107 One Day Internationals wins in 194 ODIs as the captain of the team. He also captained 70 matches of T20 and he had 40 victories in his account.

Dhoni stepped down as captain on 4th January 2017, of India’s limited-overs team ahead of the One Day internationals and T20Is against England. But he is still available as the wicketkeeper-batsman for his team. Dhoni took the decision to step down from the captaincy in order to provide the chance to the younger players to lead the team to the next level.

MS. Dhoni Millstones and Achievements

In Dhoni’s illustrious career he has reached quite some milestones and achievements. Here are his outstanding career’s best performances.
Mahi was picked as the captain of the ICC T20 World Cup 2007, and he came back to his homeland India with the winning trophy from South Africa.
For the ODIs Dhoni was made the permanent captain of the Indian Cricket team. He also became the captain of the Test format very next year of ODIs for the Indian cricket team.
Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India reached the No. 1 ICC Test Ratings. In 2009 against Sri Lanka Indian team scored 726/9 (declared), it was the highest Test total ever.
Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India won the 2011 ICC World Cup, Dhoni became the 2nd Indian Captain to do so after Kapil Dev.
Dhoni is also the only captain of the Indian Cricket Team to have taken home the ICC World Cups in both games T20 and ODI.
MS Dhoni became the first Indian Wicketkeeper on 17th January 2008, with five international dismissals against Australia, equaling Adam Gilchrist’s record.
Dhoni’s knock of 183* is the highest any player has ever made in the 2nd innings of a One Day International. (Dhoni broke the record of Brain Lara 153 not out).
MS hit 10 sixes in the same innings, the most number hit by an Indian cricketer in a single inning, he made 120 out of that 183 from boundaries alone. (Dhoni hit 15 boundaries and 10 over-boundaries).
MS Dhoni made it to No in ICC batting Ranking.
Dhoni declared his retirement from test cricket in the 2014-15 season.
In his last test match, his stumping helped him to break the record of Kumar Sangakkara. By any Indian Wicket Keeper, he also broke the record of the maximum no of dismissals.
His 224 is the highest score in a Test Match as an Indian captain.
MSD is also the most successful Indian Test Captain, he won 24 test matches.
Dhoni is only one of three players in the world to have captained their teams for more than 300 One Day Internationals.
Dhoni is currently ranked 3 rd after Ricky Ponting and Stephen Fleming.
After Ricky Ponting and Allan Border, Dhoni is also the third captain who has won 100 One Day Intonations.
In a test match cricket, Dhoni is the highest scoring wicket-keeper captain.
As a wicketkeeper, Dhoni finished his ‘Double’ in 114 innings (4000 runs and 100 dismissals). He is the 6th in the world to do so.
Another remarkable thing about Dhoni is he is the only wicketkeeper in the cricket world who has taken a wicket. He is the batsman and wicket-keeper but he proved himself as a bowler too. Dhoni took the wicket of Travis Dowlin of the West Indies.

MSD In Indian Premier League

In season 2008 Indian Premier League, Dhoni signed up with the team Chennai Super Kings, and in the last six seasons, Dhoni has won the trophy twice. Now Dhoni was the first choice for the Rising Pune Supergiants in the Draft of IPL 2016. Dhoni will play for the same team in IPL 2017.

Match Bans

MSD while being the captain of the Indian Cricket Team, faced a few controversies. But Dhoni had been suspended for some matches due to a slow-over rate. Indian team faced shortages of over under his captaincy, slow over timings is against the rules of the cricket matches. In the years 2009 and 2012, this issue was faced by the Indian team while playing against Sri Lanka and Australia respectively.

MS Dhoni Captain Cool

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is admired for his cool temperament, he is too much cool in any situation. He is not known to throw his impression around or get angry at his teammates. He focuses on his game and he looks at cricket as a mind game. Dhoni appears unfazed by victories and steely even in the face of losses.

Awards of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

In 2006, Dhoni won the award of MTV Youth Icon, NDTV Youth Icon.
In 2007, won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, which is the highest Indian Sports award.
In 2009, he won the Padma Shri, ICC ODI Player of the Year.
In 2010, Dhoni was awarded by the Castrol ODI Cricketer.
In 2011, MS Dhoni was awarded by the CNN IBN, ICC World ODI XI.
In 2012, he won ICC World ODI XI.
In 2013, Dhoni won the award of People Choice.

Some Facts about Mahendra Singh Dhoni

MSD was born to a middle-class caste o rulers
MS Dhoni does not smoke.
Mahi drinks alcohol occasionally.
Mahi secured 65% in the 10th Board exams.
Dhoni was first spotted as a goalkeeper by KR Banerjee.
Dhoni fell in love with a girl Priyanka Jha, unfortunately, she died in an accident in the same year 2012.
Dhoni’s life took a turn in 2004 when he avails the chance to play for the India A team tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya. On this tour, he performed exceptionally well.
On 23 rd December 2004, on his first ODI debut against Bangladesh, Dhoni was out for a duck.
Earlier Dhoni used to have long hair for two reasons, 1 st Dhoni is a great fan of Bollywood actor Jhon Abraham and secondly, he considered it lucky for him.
Dhoni is a good friend of actor Jhon Abraham.
Dhoni’s father and his wife’s father of them used to work in the same Company, MECON.
In India, Dhoni was the highest taxpayer sportsperson for the years 2012, 2013, and 2014.
By Forbes magazine, Dhoni became the world’s top-earning cricketer in 2012, and 31 in the world.
MSD owns a hotel called “Mahi Residency” in Ranchi.
Dhoni’s favorite sportsperson are Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafael Nadal. (Non- Cricketer sportsperson).
MSD is a pet lover and he has 2 pet dogs.
MSD is a bike lover and he is also the co-owner of “Mahi Racing Team India.
With Rhiti Group in 2016, Dhoni launched a fashion brand “Seven.
Dhoni took 40 crores (INR) from the movie makes of his biopic named, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (released 2016).in this movie, Dhoni’s character is played by Sushant Singh Rajput.
Mahi loves camouflage clothes and accessories.

MS Dhoni Net Worth

Dhoni is the richest playing cricketer in the world. Professional Indian cricketer MS Dhoni has an estimated net worth of $ 100 million as of 2015. Dhoni received an annual salary 2012 of $ 3.5 million. MS Dhoni’s net worth in 2016 was around 31 million dollars.