If you live in India or you have any relation with India then it is near to impossible that you haven’t heard about MS Dhoni. The living legend and former captain of Indian cricket team has achieved so much for his country that no other captain can dream of.
History of entering into Cricket
Our captain cool was born on 7 july 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar( now jharkhand), India. His father was a pump operator who used to see the water supply operations. You will be shocked to know that Mahi was a soccer lover in his school days and he used to do goalkeeping for his school football team. Unlike Dhoni, his uncle and cousins spell their surname “Dhauni”. Previously Dhoni was the goalkeeper for his DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir school’s football team, but after seeing his goalkeeping skills, coach Keshav Ranjan Banerjee, one who inspired Dhoni to be a cricketer, picked him to play cricket for his school team.
As every middle class parents of India have a dream that there children should work in government department , his parents also wanted him to study hard and become an officer in government department but Mahi had totally different plans.
His love for cricket became very deep as he started to play for his school team.
Incredible Struggle………..
And Then Success
Achievements
- Under his captaincy India won the inaugural T-20 world cup and India became the country to win the first edition of T-20 world cup
- In 2008 playing under the leadership of MS Dhoni, the Men in Blue defeated Australia and Sri Lanka in a tri-series to win the CB series trophy in Australia.
- In 2010, Chennai super kings won IPL title under the leadership of MS Dhoni.
- The biggest Achievement of MS Dhoni came in 2011 when India won the Cricket world cup under his leadership after 28 years. MS Dhoni played superb innings of 91 runs in the final match and he was also awarded as the man of the match.
- In 2011, once again he made Chennai super kings win second IPL title.
- In 2013, under his leadership India won Champions Trophy title, and by doing so he became the only captain in the history of India to win all ICC(International Cricket Council) titles.
- Also in 2018 and 2021 Chennai super kings once again became the IPL Champion under his captaincy.
Dhoni announced his retirement from Tests on 30 December 2014, and stepped down as captain of T20Is and ODIs in 2017. On 15 August 2020, Dhoni retired from all formats of international cricket and continues to play in the IPL.
“YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY CAPTAIN”
