Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's name is counted among the great cricketers around the world, and today he is a successful player. But the path of becoming a cricketer was not so easy for Dhoni and he had to struggle a lot in his life to become a great cricketer from an ordinary person.

Dhoni started playing cricket from his school days, but it took him many years to become a part of the Indian team. But as soon as Dhoni got a chance to play for our country, he used this opportunity well and slowly established himself in the world of cricket.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography

Full Name (Real Name) Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Nickname Mahi, MS, MSD, Captain Cool

Birthplace Ranchi, Bihar, India

Date of Birth 7 July 1981

Caste Hindu

 Educational Qualification: 12th class pass

Where did you get your education from Ranchi?

Father's Name Paan Singh

Mother's Name Devaki Devi

Total Siblings Two, [one brother and one sister]

Sister Jayanti Gupta

Bhai Narendra Singh

Wife's Name (Wife/ Spouse) Sakshi Singh Rawat

Total Children (Children) One, Jeeva (Girl)

Profession Cricketer and Former India Captain

His Role in India Cricket Team Wicketkeeper and Batsman

Batting Style Right Hand Batsman

Bowling Style Right-arm medium bowler

1st Test match (Test debut) December 2, 2005, vs Sri Lanka team

1st ODI (ODI debut) 23 December 2004 vs Bangladesh team

1st T20 (T 20 debut)

 

1 December 2006, vs South Africa team

IPL Team (IPL) Chennai Super Kings

Height 5 feet 9 inches

Hair Color Black and White

Eye Color Dark Brown

Weight 70 kg

Website information not available

Net Worth around 700 crores

Wife's Name Sakshi

daughter name jiva

Birth and Education of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Born in 1981 in the Jharkhand state of India, Dhoni did his early education from the DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir School in the same state. After completing his 12th standard, he joined Set. Xavier College. But Dhoni had to compromise with his studies for cricket and he left his studies in the middle.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Family

Dhoni's father Paan Singh used to work in MECON company and his mother's name is Devki Devi. His family ties are from the state of Uttarakhand. But his father had come to Jharkhand state due to his work and started living. After which they became residents of this state.

In Dhoni's family, apart from his mother and father, he also has a sister, brother, wife, and daughter. His elder sister is a teacher and his elder brother is a politician.

Dhoni's Love Life (Mahendra Singh Dhoni Love Life)

Priyanka Jha and Dhoni's Love Story (Priyanka Jha and Dhoni's Love Story)

In Dhoni's life, there used to be a girl named Priyanka Jha, who was Dhoni's girlfriend. But Priyanka died in the year 2002. Due to which this love story of Dhoni remained incomplete. People came to know about this part of Dhoni's life through a film made on his life.

 

Dhoni and Sakshi Love's love story

Dhoni married Sakshi on July 4, 2010, it was a love marriage. It is said that both of them used to study in the same school. But when Sakshi was young, her father shifted to Dehradun, due to which Sakshi had to leave her school midway.

Sakshi met again in the year 2007

After Sakshi shifted to Dehradun, Dhoni and Sakshi could not meet each other for a long time. But in the year 2007, both of them met again and this meeting took place in Kolkata.

Actually, the hotel in which Team India was staying was in Kolkata. Sakshi was working as an intern in the same hotel and during this time both of them met each other after a long time. After this meeting, both of them kept seeing each other for a long time and after about three years both of them got married. Both of them also have a daughter and they named her Jeeva.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's cricket career

Domestic cricket career (Mahendra Singh Dhoni domestic cricket career)

First Ranji match:

He got the opportunity to play Ranji Trophy for the first time in the year 1999 and this first Ranji Trophy match was played against the Assam cricket team from Bihar state. Dhoni had scored an unbeaten 68 in the second innings of this match, while in this season of this trophy, he scored 283 runs in a total of 5 matches. After this trophy, Dhoni played other domestic matches as well.

Despite Dhoni's excellent performance, he was not selected by the East John selector. Due to which Dhoni distanced himself from the game and in 2001 started working as a ticket collector in the railway department in Kolkata state. But Dhoni did not feel like this job and he left this job within three years and again started focusing on his cricket career.

 

In the year 2001, Dhoni was selected for the Duleep Trophy, but Dhoni could not get the information about his selection at the right time. Due to which Dhoni could not take part in this trophy.

In 2003, Dhoni was seen by former Bengal captain Prakash Poddar while playing in a match of Talent Resource Development Wing in Jamshedpur. After which he gave information about Dhoni's game to the National Cricket Academy. And in this way, Dhoni was selected in the Bihar Under-19 team.

Dhoni also participated in the 2003-2004 Deodhar Trophy tournament and was part of the East Zone team. This season of Deodhar Trophy was won by his team and Dhoni played a total of 4 matches this season, in which he scored 244 runs.

In the year 2004, Dhoni was selected in the 'India A' team. Dhoni played his first match as a wicket-keeper for the 'India A' team. He did very well against the Zimbabwe team.

Dhoni also performed strongly in the series between the three countries (Kenya A, India A, and Pakistan A), and with the help of his half-century in the match played against the 'Pakistan A' team, Dhoni won the match for the Indian team.

Dhoni's first ODI match (Mahendra Singh Dhoni ODI Debut And Career)

Dhoni got the opportunity to play the first International One Day Match (ODI) for the Indian team in the year 2004 and he played his first ODI match against the Bangladesh team.

In his first international match, he could not do anything special and went back to zero. However, despite Dhoni's poor performance, he was selected in the next ODI match to be played against Pakistan.

Dhoni did very well in this match played with Pakistan. In this match, he scored a total of 148 runs, with which he also became the first Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to have scored so many runs.

Dhoni's performance in One Day Match (ODI Match Batting Career Records Summary)

318 ODI matches played by Dhoni

Total innings played 272

Total runs scored in one day match 9967

770 total fours hit in one day match

217 sixes hit in one day match

Total centuries scored in one day match 10

Total double centuries scored in one day match 0

Total half-centuries scored in one day match 67

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Test match career

First Test Match

Dhoni got the opportunity to play the first test match for the Indian cricket team in the year 2005 and he played his first match against the Sri Lankan team. In the first innings of this match, Dhoni scored 30 runs in his name. But due to rain, this match had to be called off in the middle.

Playing against Pakistan in the year 2006, he scored his first Test century and due to this, it helped India to avoid the follow-on in this Test match.

Last Test Match

Dhoni played the last Test match of his career in the year 2014 against the Australian team. He scored a total of 35 runs in his last test match. After this match was over, Dhoni shared the information about his retirement from the Test match with the media, and in this way, it became the last Test match of Dhoni's life.

Dhoni's Test Career Information (Test Match Batting Career Records Summary)

Total Test Matches played by Dhoni 90

Total innings played 144

Total runs scored in test match 4876

544 total fours hit in a test match

78 sixes hit in a test match

Total centuries scored in test match 6

Total double centuries scored in test match 1

Total half-centuries scored in test match 33

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's T20 career

First T20 Match

Dhoni played his first T20 match against South Africa and Dhoni's performance in his first T20 match was quite disappointing. Because in this match Dhoni faced only two balls and was dismissed for zero. Although Team India won this match.

Dhoni's T20 match career information (T 20 Match, Batting Career Summary)

Total T20 matches played by Dhoni 89

Total Runs 1444

total fours 101

total sixes 46

Total Centuries 0

total half-century 2

Dhoni as Captain

Before becoming the captain of Dhoni, the responsibility of the Indian team was with Rahul Dravid and when Rahul Dravid left his post. So Dhoni was selected in his place as the next captain of India.

It is said that Rahul Dravid and Sachin had talked to the BCCI about giving Dhoni the captaincy of the Indian team. After which BCI made Dhoni the captain of the Indian team in 2007.

After becoming the captain of India, he led the Indian team in the ICC World Twenty20 held in South Africa in September 2007 and won the tournament.

After winning the World Twenty20 Cup, Dhoni was given the captaincy of ODI matches and Test matches as well and Dhoni fulfilled this responsibility given to him very well.

Under Dhoni's captaincy, India was able to achieve first place in the ICC Test rankings in the year 2009 and Dhoni has also made many records in his name while being the captain.

Dhoni has led India in two World Cups and under his captaincy, India won the World Cup in the year 2011. Whereas in the 2015 World Cup, India was successful in reaching the semi-finals.

Dhoni's IPL career

In the first season of IPL, Dhoni was bought by Chennai Super Kings for 5 million US dollars (100 million). And this price was the highest. Under his captaincy, this team won two seasons of this league. Apart from this, he also made his team victory in the 2010 Twenty20 Champions League.

After a two-year ban on Chennai Super Kings, he was bought by IPL's second team Rising Pune Supergiant for about US $ 1.9 million (about 12 cores). After which Dhoni played matches for this team.

In the year 2018, the ban on Chennai Super Kings was over and in this season this team again included Dhoni in their team, and at this time Dhoni is leading this team.

Records made by Dhoni (Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni)Records in Hindi)

Dhoni is the first Indian wicketkeeper to have scored a total of 4,000 runs in Test matches. Before this, no Indian wicketkeeper had scored so many runs.

The Indian team has won a total of 27 Test matches while staying under Dhoni's captaincy, with which Dhoni holds the record for being the most successful Indian Test captain.

During his captaincy, the Indian team won the following World Cups, making him the first captain to have won all types of ICC tournament cups.

Which year won the ICC tournament cup?

T20 World Cup 2007

ODI world cup 2011

Champions Trophy 2013

He has played a total of 331 international matches as a captain and is the first captain who has played the most international matches. He has hit 204 sixes in international matches, along with the title of the captain with the most number of sixes. Dhoni's name is also the record of winning the most T20 matches as a captain.

Awards and Achievement received by Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award by the Government of India in the year 2007, which is the top award given in the world of sports.

Dhoni has also been awarded the Padma Shri Award in the year 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in the year 2018 by the Government of India.

In 2011, Dhoni was given an honorary doctorate degree by De Montfort University. Apart from this, Dhoni has also won the ICC ODI Player of the Year, Man of the Match, and Man of the Series award twice.

Film on the life of Dhoni (M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story Film)

Recently a film was also made on the life of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Whose name. There was 'MS Dhoni: The Untold Story' and this film was released in the year 2016. Dhoni's life was depicted in this film and his role was played by actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Controversy related to Dhoni

Water Controversy

In the year 2007, the people of Dhoni's colony had lodged a complaint against him with the Ranchi Regional Development Authority. In which Dhoni was accused of wasting about 15,000 liters of water daily. After which this matter also reached the Jharkhand High Court. But when the matter was investigated, it was found that the people of the colony had lodged this complaint based on some wrong information, after which these people who complained against Dhoni apologized to them.

Tax Controversy

MS Dhoni was also once embroiled in a controversy over paying the low registration fee and it was alleged that he had got the name Mahindra Scorpio written in place of this vehicle while registering the 'Hummer H2' SUV vehicle manufactured by the American company. Due to which Dhoni had to pay a fee of only 53,000 instead of the registration fee of 4 lakh.

Match-fixing Controversy

Dhoni was once again embroiled in controversies regarding the fixing in the IPL match held in the year 2013 and he was also accused of match-fixing. But these allegations against them could not be proved.

Amrapali Group Controversy

In the year 2016, Amrapali company and its brand ambassador Dhoni were trolled on social media by the residents of Amrapali Housing Project. After which Dhoni resigned as the brand ambassador of this firm.

Actually, these people had bought houses from the Amrapali company, but even after taking money from these people, these houses were not given to them. After which these people started tagging Dhoni in their tweets and seeing the displeasure of the people, Dhoni distanced himself from this company.

In the year 2018, Dhoni has also filed a case against Amrapali company and Dhoni has spoken of not giving him one hundred crore rupees on this company. In fact, to make Dhoni its brand ambassador, 150 crore rupees were to be given to him by this company. But this company has not yet given this amount to Dhoni and being upset due to non-payment of money, Dhoni had to file a case against this company.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Retirement –

On August 15, 2020, this great player and the best captain announced his retirement from international cricket. It was a very sad moment for the fans. This was a player whom many people of the world used to watch cricket to see.

Information related to Mahendra Singh Dhoni's social media (Social Media)

Instagram account

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a total of 9.1 million followers in his Instagram account and he has posted a total of 82 photos and videos in his account. Apart from this, they follow a total of two people.

Facebook

Mahendra Singh Dhoni had created his Facebook account in the year 2016 and in this account, he keeps sharing his photos from time to time. A total of 20,575,527 people are followed in these Facebook.

Twitter

Mahendra Singh Dhoni had created his Twitter account in the year 2009 and at this time his Twitter account is being followed by about 7 million people. Dhoni has made a total of 452 tweets on this account.

Net Worth of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni Net Worth)

The net worth of Mahendra Singh Dhoni is around Rs 700 crore and he has earned this money by doing cricket, advertising, and many other types of business. Dhoni's annual income is up to Rs 102 crores.

Other things related to Dhoni (Facts About Mahendra Singh Dhoni)

In 2012, Forbes magazine named Dhoni as one of the world's highest-paid players. Apart from this, Dhoni also became the highest tax paid player to the Government of India from 2012 to 2014.

Along with being a cricketer, Dhoni is also associated with many types of business and he has also opened a hotel in Ranchi, which he has named Mahi Niwas.

In the year 2016, Dhoni also entered the clothing business and he has started a clothing brand named SEVEN in association with Rhiti Group.

Dhoni is very fond of cars and bikes and has bought many types of cars and bikes. Apart from this, Dhoni also has a lot of love for animals and he has also kept two dogs.

It is said that Dhoni had taken 40 crores to give the rights to make a film on his life and the film made on his life collected Rs 210 crores. had not.

Once Dhoni's long hair was praised by former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and he asked Dhoni not to cut his hair.

Dhoni's life is very inspirational for the youth of our country and even today there has been no decrease in the number of his fans. Even today whenever Dhoni comes down to play in the field. So everyone is only waiting for his batting.

Be it IPL matches or international matches, Dhoni plays every match very calmly and makes his team win easily.

The position that Dhoni has achieved today based on hard work, hardly any other cricketer can achieve that and perhaps our country can ever get another Dhoni.