Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (About this sound articulation (help·info), regularly known as M. S. Dhoni; conceived 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current skipper of the Indian national cricket group. He is an ambushing right-given center request batsman and wicket-manager. He is broadly viewed as one of the best finishers in constrained overs cricket.[1][2][3][4] He made his One Day International (ODI) make a big appearance in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka.


Dhoni is the skipper of India in every one of the three manifestations of the diversion. His Test and ODI records are the best around all Indian skippers to date. He assumed control over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and headed the group to its first ever reciprocal ODI arrangement wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the last of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to triumph for which he was recompensed the Man of the Match. In the wake of consuming the Test captaincy in 2008, he headed the group to arrangement wins in New Zealand and West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni likewise headed the Indian group to number one position without precedent for the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India turned into the first group in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test arrangement. In June 2013, when India vanquished England in the last of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni turned into the first commander to win all the three ICC trophies. He has likewise captained the Chennai Super Kings to triumph in the 2010 and 2011 seasons of Indian Premier League alongside the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.

Dhoni holds the post of Vice-President of India Cements Ltd. in the wake of leaving from Air India. India Cements is the holder of the IPL group Chennai Super Kings, and Dhoni has been its chief since the first release of Ipl.[5][6]

Dhoni has been the beneficiary of numerous recompenses including the ICC ODI Player of the Year grant in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the honor twice), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recompense in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth most elevated regular person honor, in 2009. He was named as the chief of ICC World Test XI and ICC World ODI XI groups for 2009. The Indian Territorial Army presented the privileged rank of Lieutenant Colonel[7] to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to have gained this honor. In June 2013, Forbes positioned Dhoni at sixteenth in the rundown of most noteworthy paid competitors on the planet, evaluating his profit at $31.5 million.[8][9][10][11] The TIME magazine has included Dhoni in its "Opportunity 100" rundown of 100 most compelling individuals of 2011.[12] Sportspro has evaluated Dhoni as the sixteenth most attractive competitor in the world.