Happy 40th Birthday M.S. Dhoni. Below are some of the Interesting facts about him:
- Prior to taking up cricket, Dhoni was an avid football fan who was well-known for his goalkeeping abilities. Dhoni excelled in football and badminton as a child. Indeed, he competed at the district level in both football and badminton.
- MS Dhoni, the legendary Indian cricketer, was once rejected by the East Zone team that won the 2004 Deodar Trophy. Selectors were unconvinced by his unconventional approach to the plate.
- MS Dhoni is one of the wealthiest cricketers in the world now, but prior to his international debut, he was paid Rs 50 by his coach Deval Sahay for each six he hit while playing for Central Coal Fields Limited in the Sheesh Mahal tournament.
- MS Dhoni’s passion for motorcycles is relatively new, but he is the only person in South East Asia who owns Yamaha RD350, Harley-Davidson Fatboy, Ducati 1098, Kawasaki Ninja H2, and the ultra-exclusive Confederate Hellcat X132.
- After Australia’s Ricky Ponting and Allan Border, Dhoni is the third captain in world cricket to win more than 100 One-Day Internationals.
- MS Dhoni’s career did not begin well. He provided no justification for his selection. He was promoted to No. 3 in the fifth ODI of his career by then-captain Sourav Ganguly, and he repaid the team management’s faith in him by smashing a 148 off 123 balls against Pakistan in Vizag. It was his first century in international cricket and the quickest century by an Indian wicketkeeper in one-day internationals.
- Dhoni is regarded as the game’s best and fastest stumper, having registered 155 stumpings across all three formats.
- Dhoni holds the record for the most sixes scored as a skipper (204). He has a total of 322 sixes and is currently fifth on the list, which is led by Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi (476).
- Dhoni also holds the record for most international matches captained (331).
- His unbeaten 183 against Sri Lanka in Jaipur in 2005 is the highest score by a wicketkeeper in one-day international cricket.