M.S. Dhoni

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Dhoni born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian Twenty-Twenty and ODI team. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 World Twenty-Twenty (20-20 world cup).

MahendraDhoni is an aggressive right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Mahendra Dhoni is one of the wicket-keepers who have come through the ranks of junior and India A cricket teams to represent the national team - Parthiv Patel, Ajay Ratra and Dinesh Karthik being the others. Dhoni, referred to as 'Mahi' by his friends, debuted in the Bihar cricket team during the 1998/99 cricket season and was selected to represent India-A for a tour to Kenya in 2004.

Along with Gautam Gambhir, Dhoni made multiple centuries against the Pakistan-A team in a tri-nation series and was selected in the Indian national team later in that year.


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 and Twenty20 team and Vice captain of the Test team
Batting style: Right hand batsman
Bowling style: Right arm medium
Field position: Wicketkeeper
Clubs played: Jharkhand

Cricketing profile

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.

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.

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.

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

Batting and fielding averages

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 43 66 9 2428 148 42.59 3991 60.83 4 17 267 45 113 20
ODIs 162 143 37 5420 183* 51.13 6031 89.86 7 35 417 115 154 52
T20Is 25 24 7 441 46 25.94 393 112.21 0 0 26 13 11 3
First-class 83 131 12 4580 148 38.48 7 31 220 36
List A 218 195 47 7422 183* 50.14 13 46 221 67
Twenty20 72 66 20 1597 73* 34.71 1240 128.79 0 7 122 53 27 13

Bowling averages


Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 43 2 12 14 0 - - - 7.00 - 0 0 0
ODIs 162 1 12 14 1 1/14 1/14 14.00 7.00 12.0 0 0 0
T20Is 25 - - - - - - - - - - - -
First-class 83 42 34 0 - - - 4.85 - 0 0 0
List A 218 39 36 2 1/14 1/14 18.00 5.53 19.5 0 0 0
Twenty20 72 - - - - - - - - - - - -
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