Mahendra Singh Dhoni - Records,Family,Photos

Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born : 7th July, 1981
Place of Birth : Ranchi, Bihar
Major Teams : Jharkhand,Bihar,Chennai Super Kings,Asia XI,India
Height : 5 ft 11 in
Player Type : Wicket-keeper, Batsman, Captain,
Batting Style : Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style : Right-hand medium
Also known as: Mahi,Dhoni,MS

Dad's Name : Pan Singh
Mother's Name : Devaki Devi
Sister's Name : Jayanti
Brother's Name : Narendra
Wife's Name :Sakshi Singh Rawat

Film Star : John Abraham
Cricketer : Adam Gilchrist
Singer : Lata Mangeshkar,Kishore Kumar
Childhood idols : Sachin Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan

"If you see 2015, three and a half years to go, I don't really know where I will stand. Everything needs to go off well and then close to 2013, I will have to take a call whether I can be 100% available for the 2015 World Cup. Because at the end of the day you don't want a wicketkeeper part of the side who has not played at least 100-odd games - at least close to 80-100 games going into the World Cup. So that's a call that needs to be taken. But if everything goes off well, 2013 end will be the time where we will have to carefully study the body and see what can be done." Dhoni said to CNN-IBN after receiving the news channel's Indian of the Year - Sports award for 2011.

Dhoni told about his emotions after winning the 2011 world cup. "Yes I did (cry) you don't really have footage of that," Dhoni said. "It's very difficult to control an emotion like that. I was controlling it, quickly. I wanted to go up to the dressing room and I see two of my players crying and running onto me. Fortunately, all of a sudden, I started crying and I looked up and there was a huddle around me. It was one of the biggest things for us as Indian cricketers. The last time we won the proper 50-over version was 28 years back. So most of the people part of the side wanted to win the World Cup and as soon as we got into a position where we saw the World Cup coming into our dressing room, that was the time when emotions started to flow. If you see before the post-match presentation, almost each and every player cried."

Dhoni talking about his unconventional batting style, "We played on a 16-18 yard wicket with a tennis ball and most of the times the bowler tried to push in a yorker. That was the kind of shot that you needed to hit it for a six because in tennis ball cricket, you don't have to middle it. Even if you are using the bottom-most part of the bat, if you hit it quite well, it always goes over the boundary. I think I became better. I never practiced it, I used it in the games. And not to forget, I've quite often hit my left ankle doing that. Over the years you get better and better and I've seen a few other people trying to copy it."

Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who lead Team India to its first World Cup title in 28 years, found himself ranked above global football icon Lionel Messi and U.S. President Barack Obama in the Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world for the year 2010. He, ranked 52nd in the chart. The Time magazine described him as "captain fantastic." The highest-ranked Indian in the latest Time list, he is only the second Indian sportsman after Sachin Tendulkar to make it there.

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Against

Runs

Balls

4s

6s

SR

Bangladesh

-

-

-

-

-

England

31

25

3

1

124

Ireland

34

50

2

0

68

Netherlands

19*

40

2

0

47.5

South Africa

12

21

0

0

57.14

West Indies

22

30

1

0

73.33

Australia

7

8

1

0

87.5

Pakistan

25

42

2

0

59.52

Sri Lanka

91*

79

8

2

115.1

Sachin Tendulkar - A batting Genius, Wonderful Cricketer.He is a real master of cricket game, holds most of the records in Cricket sport. Above all He is a great Man with fantastic character.

Virender Sehwag - He is one of the best opening batsman for both one day international (ODI) and test matches. He is a attcking batsman and have a great hand - eye coordination.

Suresh Kumar Raina - He is one of the much talented cricketer in indian team. He is aggressive and at the same time very sensible player. Watching his fielding is delightful.

Yuvraj Singh - He is a senior cricketer in Indian cricket Team. He won the man of the series in Worldcup 2011. Earlier He was famous for his jumping and fielding. He is a very good batsman as well.

Virat Kohli -He is a very talented cricketer, well known for his technical shot selection against quality bowling attack. Virat Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team "Under 19 World Cup" held in Malaysia at 2008.

ODI Centuries:

No

Runs

Match

Opponent

Venue

Year

1

148

5

Pakistan

Vishakapatnam, India

2005

2

183*

22

Sri Lanka

Jaipur, India

2005

3

139*

74

Africa XI

Chennai, India

2007

4

109*

109

Hong Kong

Karachi, Pakistan

2008

5

124

143

Australia

Nagpur, India

2009

6

107

152

Sri Lanka

Nagpur, India

2009

7

101*

156

Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010

Test Centuries:

No.

Runs

Match

Against

Venue

Year

1

148

5

Pakistan

Faisalabad, Pakistan

2006

2

110

38

Sri Lanka

Ahmedabad, India

2009

3

100*

40

Sri Lanka

Mumbai, India

2009

4

132*

42

South Africa

Kolkata, India

2010

ODI:

No.

Runs

Opponent

Venue

Season

As Keeper

1

148

Pakistan

Vishakapatnam

2004-05

2 Catches

2

183*

Sri Lanka

Jaipur

2005-06

1 Catch

3

72

Pakistan

Lahore

2005-06

3 Catches

4

91*

Bangladesh

Mirpur

2007

1 Stumping

5

139*

Africa

Chennai

2007

3 Stumpings

6

50*

Australia

Chandigarh

2007

2 Stumpings

7

63

Pakistan

Guwahati

2007

1 Stumping

8

67

Sri Lanka

Karachi

2008

2 Catches

9

76

Sri Lanka

Colombo

2008

2 Catches

10

84*

New Zealand

Napier

2009

1Catch,1Stumping

11

46*

West Indies

St. Lucia

2009

2Catches,1Stumping

12

124

Australia

Nagpur

2009

1Catch,1Stumping,1Runout

13

101*

Bangladesh

Mirpur

2010

-

No.

Runs

Opponent

Venue

Season

Matches

As keeper

1

346

Sri Lanka

India

2005-06

7(5 Innings)

6Catches,3Stumpings

2

127

Bangladesh

Bangladesh

2007

2(2 Innings)

1Catch,2Stumpings

3

193

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

2008

5(5 Innings)

3Catches,1Stumping

4

182

West Indies

West Indies

2009

4(3 Innings)

4Catches,1Stumping

Against

Run

Ball

4s

6s

SR

KKR

29

21

1

1

138.09

KP

43

20

4

2

215

RCB

22

16

1

1

137.5

KTK

14

13

1

1

107.69

MI

3

6

0

0

50

PW

26

21

2

1

123.8

PW

-

-

-

-

-

DC

21

22

1

1

95.45

RR

-

-

-

-

-

KKR

-

-

-

-

-

RR

41*

19

3

3

215.78

DD

63*

31

5

4

203.22

KTK

9

6

1

0

150

RCB

70*

40

3

6

175

RCB

29

19

3

1

152.63

RCB

22

13

0

2

169.23