All About Mahendra Singh Dhoni

 Personal information

Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
D.O.B: 7th July, 1981
Place of Birth: Ranchi, Bihar
Nickname: Mahi


Cricketing information

Role: Captain of the Indian ODI , Twenty20 and                     captain of the Test team
Batting style: Right hand batsman
Bowling style: Right arm medium
Field position: Wicketkeeper
Clubs played: Jharkhand






Best Records as a Captain

Dhoni Won the ICC World Cup 2011 under his captaincy with man of the match in the final.
Team India went on to win the inaugural T20 cricket World Cup 2007 just after the heavy loss in ICC World cup 2007.
He also won the champions league 2010 as a captain of Chennai Super kings.
He has been honoured as a Best captain of India by many honoured Cricketers.
It was under his captaincy that India climbed to No. 1 in the ICC Test Rankings in December 2009.
Under his captaincy India Revolves around second place in ODI Rankings.
14 Man Of The match Awards and 4 Man Of The Series Awards in ODI Tell Everything about his Excellence.

Cricketing profile 

             Initially recognized as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman, Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side.Mahendra Singh Dhoni started his first class career in the year 1999-2000. His one day international debut came after playing five years of first class cricket on the 23rd of December 2004 against Bangladesh. The venue of the match was in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Unfortunately, he was run out on the first ball he faced. It wasn’t a great debut for him where batting is concerned. Luck wasn’t on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day. Not only a good wicketkeeper but Dhoni proved himself to be a first class batsman too. He is one of the few finest wicketkeeper batsman India has seen after a very long time.He has also a best captaincy skills and compared to Steve Waugh for his capatincy nerves.
              On the 31st of October, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur. Adam Gilchrist was the former record holder with 172 runs.
              Before he started playing cricket, he was a football goalkeeper. Its said he drinks around four litres of milk everyday but he denied it by saying that has been exaggerated a bit. He said he loves milk and drinks around a litre on a daily basis.
              On the 2nd of December 2005, Dhoni made his Test cricket debut against Srilanka which was played in Chennai, India.
               Dhoni become Forbe's Top Earning Cricketer.
               The TIME magazine added him in its "Time 100" list of 100 most influential people of 2011.

Personal profile

         Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father’s home town. His father’s name is Pan Singh and mother’s name is Devki Devi. Finally the legend tied a Knot with Sakshi


His hobbies and interests include:

    * Hearing music, ghazals and songs by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar
    * Loves to ride bikes
    * Enjoys playing computer games and badminton

Not interested in:

    * English songs
    * Working out at gyms


Special qualities:

    * Thinks positive
    * Highly confident about himself
    * Is aggressive on the field

His Idol:

    * Adam Gilchrist