Deval Sahay, impressed by his hard-hitting shots and dedication, used his contacts in Bihar Cricket Association to push for his selection in the Bihar team. He grabbed the opportunity and scored centuries and helped CCL move to the A division. Playing for CCL, he got a chance to bat up the order. One of the famous episodes, when Dhoni used to play for CCL, was when Deval Sahay used to gift him Rs 50 for each six that he hit in Sheesh Mahal tournament cricket matches.
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Till 1998 Dhoni, who was in class 12th in school, had played only school cricket and club cricket and no professional cricket. In 1998, Dhoni was selected by Deval Sahay to play for the Central Coal Fields Limited (CCL) team. As per his fellow railway employees he was an honest and straightforward employee of the Indian Railways. He was a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) at Kharagpur railway station from 2001 to 2003, under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore (W), a district in West Bengal. Dhoni focused on cricket after his tenth standard. Based on his performance at club cricket, he was picked for the 1997/98 season Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 Championship and he performed well. Though he had not played cricket, he impressed with his wicket-keeping skills and became the regular wicketkeeper at the Commando cricket club (1995–1998). He was a goalkeeper for his football team and was sent to play cricket for a local cricket club by his football coach. Since childhood his favourite Bollywood actor is Amitabh Bachchan and favourite singer is Lata Mangeshkar He is a fan of Adam Gilchrist, and his childhood cricket idol was his former team-mate and former cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar. ĭhoni's mother tongue is Bhojpuri and he also speaks Tamil. Dhoni's uncle and cousins spell their surname as Dhauni but Mahendra Singh spells his as Dhoni. His uncle, Pan Singh's brother, Ganapat Singh Dhauni lives in Lwali. He has a sister Jayanti Gupta and an elder brother Narendra Singh Dhoni. His parents moved from Uttarakhand to Ranchi, Jharkhand where his father Pan Singh worked in junior management positions in MECON. Dhoni's father is Pan Singh and his mother is Devaki Devi. His paternal village Lwali is in Jainti tehsil, Lamgara block of the Almora District of Uttarakhand.
He announced his retirement from Tests on 30 December 2014 and captain of limited-overs game in 2017.
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In test cricket his captaincy record was mixed, successfully leading India to series win against New Zealand (in 2009) and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (home series in 20) against Australia while losing to Sri Lanka, Australia, England, and South Africa by big margins in away conditions.
In 2007, he took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid. Furthermore, he led CSK to win 2010, 2011, 20 edition of IPL, becoming second most successful IPL captain after Rohit Sharma.ĭhoni made his ODI debut on 23 December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka. Having won the triple ICC limited-overs tournament as captain (inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and 2013 ICC Champions Trophy) and brought the Indian cricket team to number one position in ICC test rankings in 2009, Dhoni is often considered as the greatest captain of Indian cricket team. He is currently the captain of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), a franchise based team of Indian Premier League. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (born 7 July 1981), is a former international cricketer who captained the Indian national cricket team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.