Mahendra Singh Dhoni (born 7 July 1981) is a former Indian international cricketer. He captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Under his captaincy, India won the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wicket-keeper batsmen and captains in the history of the game. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 15 August 2020.
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Mahendra Singh Dhoni (born 7 July 1981) is a former Indian international cricketer. He captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Under his captaincy, India won the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wicket-keeper batsmen and captains in the history of the game. Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on 15 August 2020. He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009. He was named as the captain of the ICC World Test XI in 2009, 2010 and 2013. In June 2015, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 23rd in the list of highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his earnings at US$31 million. He holds the post of Vice-President of India Cements Ltd., after resigning from Air India. In 2016, a biopic M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story was made on his life and his cricket career up to the Indian team’s win at the 2011 cricket World Cup. His paternal parents moved to Uttarakhand, where he excelled in badminton and football. His sister Jayanti has worked in junior management positions in MEC Pananti Pananti Singh Pananti, where his father worked as a junior management manager.
His brother Narendra Singh Gupta is a football goalkeeper and was selected at district and club level in football and cricket. His childhood idols were Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Lata Mangeshh, and Bachhchan, Bollywood actor Amitababh Bollywood, and singer Lita Mangeshkar. He studied at DAV Jawahar Vidhahar, and was a goalkeeper for the football team for the district and district team in football. He also played football for the village team of Shyamali, Jharkhand, and the district team of Vidhhar Vidhah Mandhahar. He played cricket for the state team of Jammu and Kashmir and the state cricket team of Haryana. He made his ODI debut on 23 December, 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007, and led the team to its first-ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. In 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all three ICClimited-overs trophies. In the Indian Premier League, he captained Chennai Super Kings to victory at the 2010, 2011 and 2018 seasons, along with wins in 2010 and 2014 editions of Champions League Twenty20. In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete.
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