Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni , commonly known as M. S. Dhoni; born 7
July 1981 is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national
cricket team in limited-overs formats. An attacking right-handed middle-order
batsman and wicket-keeper, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest
finishers in limited-overs cricket. 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 in a press conference lauds Sourav Ganguly for
his captaincy skills and admitted that Sourav Ganguly is the best captain of
India.
Dhoni holds numerous captaincy records such as most wins by
an Indian captain in Tests and ODIs, and most back-to-back wins by an Indian
captain in ODIs. 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 2007–08, 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 79 balls to take India to victory for which he was awarded the Man
of the Match.
In June 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the
Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all three
ICC limited-overs trophies (World Cup, Champions Trophy and the World
Twenty20). 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. In the Indian Premier League, he captained the
Chennai Super Kings to victory at the 2010 and 2011 seasons, along with wins in
the 2010 and 2014 editions of Champions League Twenty20. He announced his
retirement from Tests in December 2014.
Dhoni 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 IPL
season.Dhoni is the co-owner of Indian Super League team Chennaiyin FC.
Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards, including the
ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the
award twice), 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 to Dhoni on 1 November
2011. He is the second Indian cricketer after Kapil Dev to have received this
honour. In June 2014, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 22nd in the list of highest paid
athletes in the world, estimating his earnings at US$30 million. In 2011, Time
magazine included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of the "Most
Influential People in the World." In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the
sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world.
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