MS Dhoni: Amazing Journey Of The Small Town Boy To World Legend

First, let us tell you, Why did we write this article and Why would you read this article “MS Dhoni and his amazing journey of the small-town boy to remarkable life story”? Because MS Dhoni is the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team. One of the Great influencing personality in Indian sports. Everyone loves him due to his calmness in the cricket field, his captaining techniques. Not only fans but also cricket legends, cricket experts, players praises him for his captaining techniques.

It’s a story about how Ranchi’s small-town poster boy became a cricket legend. He is a small town revolutionary. His story is an inspiration for millions of people across this country. He played 90 Tests, 350 ODIs, and 98 T20Is.

Let’s read MS Dhoni’s biography to know about his inspiring life, work, and achievements.

MS Dhoni Biography

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a former Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national cricket team and achieved many successes for the team. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Dhoni is best known for his playing with high-pressure situations, How he takes responsibility and finishes the match in his own way. In difficult times, Dhoni controls situations with patience and a cool mind. That’s why he is popularly known as Captain Cool. He is also called as the best finisher due to his finishing style. He has a huge fan following in India. Legends, fans, old age people, young Indian, everyone loves him. Everyone is a fan of his helicopter shot. He has the quickest wicket keeping skill. England wicket-keeper Jos Buttler is a huge fan of Dhoni’s wicket-keeping skill.

He won trophies for India like the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy under his captaincy.

Dhoni has received many prestigious awards like ICC ODI Player of the Year award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, Padma Shri, and Padma Bhushan.

MS Dhoni Early Life and Family

MS Dhoni was born on 7 July 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand from a Hindu Rajput family. His father Pan Singh who worked in junior management positions in MECON Limited, Mother Devaki Devi, a sister Jayanti Gupta is a school teacher and a brother Narendra Singh Dhoni is a politician. Dhoni is the youngest of three siblings in his family.

Dhoni married his schoolmate Sakshi Singh Rawat on 4 July 2010. Dhoni has a daughter named Ziva who born on 6 February 2015.

MS Dhoni Education & Early Career

Dhoni studied at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali in Ranchi. In his school, Dhoni was selected at the district and club level in badminton and football.

Dhoni was a goalkeeper for his football team and but he was sent to play cricket for a local cricket club by his football coach. He impressed with his wicket-keeping skills in that match and became the regular wicketkeeper at the Commando cricket club. For his performance at club cricket, he was picked for the 1997/98 season Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 Championship.

MS Dhoni Job Career

Dhoni was a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway station from 2001 to 2003. He got this job for his sports quota.

He was very honest about his job. But he was not satisfied with that job. He wants to play cricket for India.

MS Dhoni Cricket Career

Dhoni was included in 2011 in Time magazine’s annual Time 100 list as one of the “Most Influential People in the World.” Read below his Influential journey of cricket.

Starting of the career

In 1998, After seeing his playing techniques, Deval Sahay selected him to play for the Central Coal Fields Limited (CCL) team. Deval Sahay was an ex Bihar Cricket Association Vice-President.

Dhoni wanted to bat in top order and while he was playing for CCL, he got a chance to bat up the order. He utilized that chance in the right way and scored a century and helped his team CCL to move to the A division.

After seeing Dhoni’s hard-hitting batting shots and dedication, Deval Sahay approached the Bihar Cricket Association for Dhoni’s selection in the Bihar team.

Dhoni was included in the Bihar U-19 squad team in the 1998-99 season. His performance was not well, his team did not qualify for quarterfinals, and for this reason, He was not picked for the team like East Zone U-19 squad or Rest of India squad.

Dhoni made his debut in Ranji Trophy in 1999-2000 season. He scored 68* runs in his debut match in the second innings against the Assam cricket team.

In 2002-03 season, Dhoni became more popular for his hard-hitting batting style in lower-order position.

Selection for India A Squad

Dhoni’s talent was discovered by BCCI’s small-town talent-spotting initiative TRDW (Talent Resource Development Wing) in Deodhar trophy.

Dhoni played Deodhar trophy in 2003-04 season for East Zone squad and won it. He played well for his team and contributed 244 runs in 4 matches. He caught the attention of the selectors of TRDW and his name was suggested to the National Cricket Academy.

After his good performance in Deodhar Trophy Dhoni was selected for India A ODI squad for the tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya in the 2003-04 season. He showed his best wicket-keeping skill in a match against the Zimbabwe XI.

Again Dhoni selected for India A squad for Triangular Tournament between India A, Pakistan A, and Kenya. Dhoni opened the innings against Kenya. He failed in that match, scored only 8 runs and Kenya won the match by 20 runs.

Dhoni played well against Pakistan and scored back to back centuries. India played 2nd match against Pakistan, Dhoni scored 70 runs and helped India A to chase down their target of 223. He played century knocks of 120 and 119 not out against Pakistan. He was the highest scorer of that series, scored 362 runs in 6 innings with an average of 72.40 and received the attention from Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and other members of the selection committee.

International Cricket Career

After his remarkable performance, Dhoni was selected in the ODI squad for the Bangladesh tour in the 2004-05 season. On Dec 23, 2004, Dhoni made his ODI Debut but he did not have a great start. In the first match, he got run out for a duck in the first ball. In the second match, he scored 12 runs from 11 balls, in the third match scored 7 runs from 2 balls. He scored only 19 runs in 3 matches at an average of 9.5 in the series.

Dhoni was picked for the Pakistan ODI series in 2004-05, again he failed in the first match and scored only 3 runs from 7 balls. But in the second match of the series, he scored 148 runs from 123 balls, and hold the record for the highest score by an Indian wicket-keeper.

ODI Career

Dhoni showed his talent by scoring 148 runs from 123 balls against Pakistan in his 5th match on April 5, 2005.

In Srilanka tour 2005/06 season, Dhoni promoted to No. 3 in the third ODI, he scored unbeaten 183 off 145 balls and helped India to chase down a target of 299. In that match, he held the record of hitting most sixes in an innings (10 sixes) by an Indian batsman. Later Rohit Sharma broke this record by hitting 16 sixes.

In September 2007, Dhoni become the ODI captain of the Indian team.

He has a legendry ODI cricket career. He won many matches on his own capabilities and batting technique. He won the 2011 world cup for India.

In 2013, under his captaincy, India won the 2013 Champions Trophy. India reached the semifinal in the 2015 world cup under his captaincy.

Test Career

In December 2005, Dhoni replaced Dinesh Karthik as the Indian teams’ Test wicket-keeper. In April 2008, Dhoni became the Part-time captain led the Indian Test team.

In November 2008, Dhoni makes his debut as full-time Test captain of India during the fourth and final Test against Australia at Nagpur.

In the 2014-15 season, Dhoni played his last test series against Australia. In December 2014, after the third Test in Melbourne, Dhoni announced his retirement from the Test format.

T20I Career

In December 2006, MS Dhoni made his T20I debut against South Africa. On 13 Sep 2007, MS Dhoni debut as Captain of Indian T20 team against Scotland.

MS Dhoni has led India in the first-ever World T20 in 2007 and won the T20 World cup title for India.

IPL Career

In IPL, MS Dhoni is a part of Chennai Super Kings. He is in CSK from 2008, from the first edition. Dhoni captaining CSK from the starting of the IPL. In the year 2016 & 2017, when CSK was banned for 2 years, he was a part of Rising Pune Supergiant.

Under his captaincy, CSK won 3 IPL titles in 2010, 2011, 2018, and 2 Champions League T20 titles in 2010 and 2014.

Dhoni holds another record in IPL. Under his captaincy, his team CSK made spot in playoffs in all edition of IPL.

CSK is the team who played final match 8 times. 5 times runners up and 3 times winner.

Interesting Facts About MS Dhoni

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In the year 2009, Dhoni was named as captain and wicketkeeper of the World ODI XI by the ICC for his performance.

In the 2011 World cup, Dhoni only scored 150 runs in 7 innings at an average of 30 just before the final match. But in the final match, Dhoni made a good partnership along with Gautam Gambhir and rescued India from a tough situation. And later Yuvraj Singh helped Dhoni to win the second World Cup title. He scored 91* runs, finished the game with a historical six.

In 2011, Time magazine included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of the “Most Influential People in the World.”

In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world.

He is the first player to win the award ICC ODI Player of the Year twice. He was named as the captain of the ICC World Test XI in 2009, 2010, and 2013.

Best Quotes about MS Dhoni

Best MS Dhoni Quotes

Read Inspiring quotes said by MS Dhoni

“Once job security enters the frame you really have to weigh everything carefully.”

“Being prepared will always keep you cool.”

“It is very important to stay focused, have short-term goals, not look too much in the future, If you don’t really have a dream, you can’t really push yourself, you don’t really know what the target is.”

“What I learnt from my senior players was how to be humble, how to conduct yourself when you’re successful, and how to figure your way out of tough times.”

“In a team environment, you have to deal with a lot of love and affection at some time, but also there times when we push the individuals.”

“Everybody is different, you need to address every Individual in a different way.”

“To be a successful captain, you need to know the strength of your team, you need to know the weakness of your team. You need to know all the individuals who are part of the team, which means you have to know how they react to different situations. These are a few basic things you need to know.”

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