Mahendra Singh Dhoni biography
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, additionally known as M.S. Dhoni, (born July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar [now Jharkhand] state, India), Indian cricketer whose rise to prominence within the early twenty first century culminated in his captaincy of the Indian nationwide group that received the one-day Cricket World Cup in 2011.
Dhoni made his worldwide debut in 2004. His expertise with the bat got here to the fore in an innings of 148 runs in opposition to Pakistan in his fifth worldwide match. Within a yr he joined the India Test group, the place he rapidly established himself with a century (100 or extra runs in a single innings) in opposition to Pakistan. Despite his inexperience, Dhoni took over the captaincy of the one-day facet in 2007 and led India to the Twenty20 (T20) world title. Series wins over Australia and Sri Lanka, amongst others, moved India to the highest of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings for the primary time in December 2009. Dhoni was honoured for his play with the ICC One Day International Player of the Year Award in 2008 and 2009. In the 2011 one-day World Cup, Dhoni’s dashing innings of 91 not out—in entrance of a house crowd in Mumbai—paved the best way for India’s victory over Sri Lanka within the remaining. He additionally led India to an look within the semifinals of the 2015 Cricket World Cup. Dhoni stopped serving as India’s captain in 2017, having led his nation in 331 worldwide matches, essentially the most for a captain within the sport’s historical past.
The explosion of T20 cricket on the Indian subcontinent paved the best way for the formation of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. In the league’s inaugural season, Dhoni signed with the Chennai Super Kings for $1.5 million, which on the time was the most important contract within the IPL. He subsequently led the group to 2 consecutive titles (2010, 2011). The Super Kings franchise earned a two-season suspension from the IRL in 2016 for its position in a match-fixing scandal, and Dhoni then joined the Rising Pune Supergiant. In 2018 he returned to the Chennai Super Kings, and that yr the group received the IPL championship.
Dhoni’s life was the topic of the hit Bollywood movie M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016).