MS Dhoni Biography age, wife, caste, Family, Love Story, cricket career

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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 made good use of this opportunity and gradually established himself in the world of cricket.

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MS Dhoni Biography age wife caste Family Love Story cricket career

Full Name-	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Nickname-	Mahi, MS, MSD, Captain Cool
Birth place-	Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
Date of Birth –	7 July 1981
Caste –	Hindu
Educational Qualification –	12th class pass
Where did you get education –	Ranchi
Father’s Name-	Paan Singh
Mother’s name-	Devki Devi
Total Siblings –	Two, [one brother and one sister]
Sister-	Jayanthi Gupta
Brother-	Narendra Singh
Wife Name –	Sakshi Singh Rawat
Total Children –	One, Jeeva (Daughter)
Profession –	Cricketer and former captain of India
His role in India cricket team (Role) –	wicketkeeper and batsman
Batting Style –	Right handed batsman
Bowling Style –	Right arm medium bowler
First Test match (Test debut) –	December 2, 2005 vs Sri Lanka team
First ODI (ODI debut) –	23 December 2004 vs Bangladesh team
First T20 (T20 debut) –	1 December 2006, vs South Africa team
IPL Team (IPL) –	Chennai Super Kings
Height –	5 feet 9 inches
Hair Colour-	Black and White
Eye Colour-	Dark Brown
Weight –	70 kg (approx)
Website –	No Information
Net Worth –	around 700 crores
Wife’s Name-	Sakshi
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Mahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni Birth And Education

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

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Family

Dhoni’s father Pan Singh used to work in MECON company and his mother’s name is Devki Devi. His family belongs to the state of Uttarakhand. But his father had started living in the state of Jharkhand due to his work. After which he became a resident of this state.
In Dhoni’s family, apart from his mother and father, he also has a sister, brother, wife and a daughter. His elder sister is a teacher and elder brother is a politician.

Mahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni Love Life

Priyanka Jha and Dhoni’s Love Story

There used to be a girl named Priyanka Jha in Dhoni’s life, 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.

MS 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 had 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 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 meeting 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

Mahendra Singh Dhoni domestic cricket career
First Ranji Match:–

He got a chance 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 on behalf of Bihar state. In the second innings of this match, Dhoni scored an unbeaten 68, 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.
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 the year 2001 started working as a ticket collector in the railway department in the state of Kolkata. But Dhoni’s mind was not engaged in 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 participate in this trophy.
In the year 2003, Dhoni was seen by former Bengal captain Prakash Poddar while playing in the 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 Deodhar Trophy tournament in the year 2003-2004 and Dhoni was a part of the East Zone team. This season of Deodhar Trophy was won by his team and Dhoni played a total of 4 matches in this season, in which he scored 244 runs.
In the year 2004, Dhoni was selected in the ‘India A’ team. On behalf of the ‘India A’ team, Dhoni played his first match as a wicket-keeper. Had performed very well against the Zimbabwe team.
In the series between three countries (Kenya A, India A and Pakistan A), Dhoni performed strongly and with the help of his half-century in the match played against ‘Pakistan A’ team, Dhoni won the match for the Indian team.

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

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 returned to zero. However, despite Dhoni’s poor performance, he was selected in the next ODI match to be played with 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 score so many runs.

ODI Match Batting Career Records Summary

ODI matches played by Dhoni	318
Total Innings Played	272
Total runs scored in ODIs	9967
Total fours hit in ODI	770
Sixes hit in ODI	217
Total centuries scored in ODIs	10
Total double centuries scored in ODIs	0
Total fifties scored in ODIs	67

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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 inning of this match, Dhoni scored a total of 30 runs. But due to rain, this match had to be stopped in the middle.
In the year 2006, while playing against Pakistan, he scored his first Test century and due to this, India was helped to avoid follow-on in this Test match.

Last Test Match

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

Test Match Batting Career Records Summary

Total Test matches played by Dhoni	90
Total Innings Played	144
Total runs scored in test match	4876
Total fours hit in test match	544
Sixes hit in Test match	78
Total centuries scored in test match	6
Total double centuries scored in test match	1
Total half centuries made in test match	33

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s T20 career

First T-20 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 got out on zero. Although Team India won this match.

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 fifties	2

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Dhoni as captain

Before Dhoni became the captain, the responsibility of the Indian team was with Rahul Dravid and when Rahul Dravid left his post. So Dhoni was chosen as the next captain of India in his place.
It is said that Rahul Dravid and Sachin talked to the BCCI about giving Dhoni the captaincy of the Indian team. After which BCCI 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 handed over the captaincy of One Day match and Test match as well and Dhoni had fulfilled this responsibility given to him very well.
Under the captaincy of Dhoni, India was able to achieve the first position 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 USD 5 million (10 crores). 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 victorious in the 2010 Twenty20 Champions League.
After the two-year ban on Chennai Super Kings, he was bought by the second IPL team Rising Pune Supergiant for about US $ 1.9 million (about 12 crores). After which Dhoni played matches on behalf of 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 Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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 under Dhoni’s captaincy, with Dhoni holding the record for being the most successful Indian Test captain.
During his captaincy, the Indian team won the following World Cups, with which he became the first captain to win all types of ICC tournament cups.

ICC tournament	which year won the cup
T20 World Cup	2007
ODI World Cup	2011
Champions trophy	2013

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

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 Padma Bhushan in the year 2018 by the Government of India.

In the year 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 awards twice.

M.S. Dhoni: Life The Story Film

Recently a film was also made on the life of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Whose name It 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.

Controversies related to Dhoni

Water Controversy

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

Tax Controversy

MS Dhoni was once embroiled in the controversy of paying less registration fee and it was alleged that while registering the vehicle ‘Hummer H2’ SUV manufactured by the American company, instead of the name of this vehicle, Mahindra Scorpio was written. Due to which Dhoni had to pay a fee of only 53,000 instead of the registration fee of 4 lakhs.

Match fixing Controversy

Dhoni once again got 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 him could not be proved.

Amrapali Group Controversy

In the year 2016, Amrapali company and Dhoni, the brand ambassador of this company, 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 Amrapali Company, but even after taking money from these people, they were not given these houses. 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 said that he will not be given 150 crore rupees on this company. In fact, to make Dhoni its brand ambassador, he was to be given Rs 150 crore by this company. But this company has not yet given this amount to Dhoni and 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 best captain announced his retirement from international cricket. It was a very sad moment for the fans. He was such a player whom many people of the world used to watch cricket just to see.

Information related to Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s social media

Instagram account

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

Facebook

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

Twitter

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

MS Dhoni Net Worth

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s total assets are around Rs 700 crores and he has earned this money by doing cricket, advertisement and many other types of business. Dhoni’s annual income is up to Rs 102 crore.

Facts About Mahendra Singh Dhoni

In 2012, Forbes magazine included Dhoni’s name among the world’s highest-paid sportspersons. Apart from this, from the year 2012 to 2014, Dhoni also became the highest tax paying player to the Government of India.
Apart from being a cricketer, Dhoni is also associated with many types of business and has also opened a hotel in Ranchi, which he has named Mahi Niwas.
In the year 2016, Dhoni also ventured into the clothing business and 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 took Rs 40 crores for the rights to make a film on his life and the film made on his life collected Rs 210 crores.
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 inspiring for the youth of our country and even today there is no decrease in the number of his fans. Even today whenever Dhoni comes out to play in the field. So everyone just waits for his batting.
Be it IPL matches or international matches, Dhoni plays every match in a very calm manner and gets his team to win easily.
The position Dhoni has achieved today on the basis of hard work, hardly any other cricketer can achieve it and maybe our country can get another Dhoni someday.