Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English, Records, Marriage Date, Age, Biography, Height, Age, Film, Current Team, Awards, net worth, family, wife

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name is counted among the great cricketers worldwide, 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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

 

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 In English

Mahendra Singh dhoni biography

Full Name Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Nickname Mahi, MS, MSD, Captain Cool

Place of Birth Ranchi, Bihar, India

Date of Birth July 7, 1981

caste Hindu

 Educational Qualification: 12th class pass

Where did I get an 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 Sakshi Singh Rawat

Total Children One, Jeeva (Girl)

Profession Cricketer and former captain of India

His role in India cricket team wicketkeeper and batsman

Batting Style Right Hand Batsman

Bowling Style Right Arm Medium Bowler

1st test match December 2, 2005, vs. Sri Lanka team

1st ODI December 23, 2004, vs. Bangladesh team

1st T20

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English 

December 1, 2006, vs. South Africa team

IPL team Chennai Super Kings

Length 5 feet 9 inches

hair color black and white

eye color dark brown

weight 70 kg

no website info

Total assets around 700 crores

Wife’s Name Sakshi

daughter name jiva

Birth and Education of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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

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 started living in Jharkhand state due to his work. After which, they became residents of this state.

Apart from his mother and father in Dhoni’s family, he also has a sister, brother, wife, and daughter. His elder sister is a teacher, and his elder brother is a politician.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

 

love story of Priyanka Jha and Dhoni

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 story

Dhoni married Sakshi on July 4, 2010, and 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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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.

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 seeing each other for a long time, and after about three years, they got married. Both of them also have a daughter, and they named her Jeeva.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Cricket career of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

domestic cricket career

First Ranji match: He got the opportunity to play Ranji Trophy for the first time in 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 5 games in his name. After this trophy, Dhoni played other domestic partners 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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Dhoni also participated in the 2003-2004 Deodhar Trophy tournament and was part of the East Zone team. His team won this season of Deodhar Trophy, and Dhoni played four matches in 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 wicketkeeper for the ‘India A’ group. He did very well against the Zimbabwe team.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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

Dhoni’s first ODI match

Dhoni got the opportunity to play the first International One Day Match (ODI) for the Indian team in 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 subsequent ODI match against Pakistan.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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.

Information about Dhoni’s performance in one day match

318 ODI matches played by Dhoni

Total innings played 272

Total runs scored in one day match 9967

770 full fours hit in one day match

217 sixes hit in one day match

Entire centuries scored in one day match 10

Entire double centuries scored in one day match 0

Total half-centuries scored in one day match 67

  Test match career of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

first test match

Dhoni got the opportunity to play the first test match for the Indian cricket team in 2005, and he played his first match against the Sri Lankan team. In the first innings of this match, Dhoni scored a total of 30 runs. 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, which helped India avoid the follow-on in this Test match.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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 final 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

Total Test Matches played by Dhoni 90

Total innings played 144

Total runs scored in test match 4876

544 full fours hit in a test match

78 sixes beaten in a test match

Entire centuries scored in test match 6

Whole double centuries scored in test match 1

Total half-centuries scored in test match 33

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s T20 career

1st T20 match

Dhoni’s 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 out for zero. However, Team India won this match.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Dhoni’s T20 match career information 

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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

After winning the World Twenty20 Cup, Dhoni was given the captaincy of ODI matches and Test matches as well, and Dhoni performed this responsibility given to him very well.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India achieved first place in the ICC Test rankings in 2009, and Dhoni has also made many records while being the captain.

Dhoni has led India in two World Cups, and under his captaincy, India won the World Cup in 2011. Whereas in the 2015 World Cup, India was prosperous in reaching the semi-finals.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Records made by 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 27 Test matches while staying under Dhoni’s captaincy, with which Dhoni holds the record for being the most successful Indian Test captain.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

During his captaincy, the Indian team won the following World Cups, with which he became 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 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 competitions, along with the title of the captain who hit the most sixes. Dhoni also holds the record of winning most T20 matches as a captain.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Mahendra Singh Dhoni received the award.

The Government of India gave Mahendra Singh Dhoni the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2007, which is the top award given in sports.

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

In 2011, Dhoni was given an honorary doctorate 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

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 wasting water In the year 2007, the people of Dhoni’s colony had complained to 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 this 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.

MS Dhoni was also once embroiled in a controversy over paying the low registration fee. 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.

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

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.

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 people’s displeasure, Dhoni distanced himself from this company.

In 2018, Dhoni also filed a case against Amrapali company, and Dhoni has spoken of not giving him one hundred crore rupees on this company. Rs 150 crore was to be provided by this company to make Dhoni it is the brand ambassador. But this company has not yet given this amount to Dhoni, and being upset due to not being given the 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 an unfortunate moment for the fans. This was a player whom many people of the world used to watch cricket to see.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni has 9.1 million followers on his Instagram account, and he has posted 82 photos and videos on 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 created his Twitter account in 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.

The net worth of Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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 2016, Dhoni also ventured into the clothing business and started a clothing brand named Seven in association with the Rhiti Group.

Dhoni is very fond of cars and bikes and has bought many types of vehicles 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 a collection of 210 crores.

Once Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf praised Dhoni’s long hair, 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.

Dhoni’s position today is based on hard work, hardly any other cricketer can accomplish that, and perhaps our country can ever get another Dhoni.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Latest News –

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is currently appearing in IPL 2020 after taking retirement from the One Day match. Dhoni is playing as the captain of his team Chennai Super Kings. All his spectators are thrilled to see him playing. Dhoni is currently in Abu Dhabi. We hope his team wins this time, and we can see him play more.Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography In English

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