Nick Name: Mahi, MS, MSD, Captain Cool, Mahendra Dhoni
Also Known As: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Famous As: Cricketer
Nationality: Indian
Birth Date: july 7, 1981
Age: 36 years
Height: 1.75 M
Born In: Ranchi, Bihar, India
Father: Pan Singh
Mother: Devaki Devi
Siblings: Jayanti Gupta, Narendra Singh Dhoni
Partner: Sakshi Dhoni (M. 2010)
Children: Ziva
LIFE OF MAHI
MS Dhoni comes from a typical family. His father Pan Singh, worked for MECON and his mother Devki Devi is a housewife. He has an elder brother, Narendra Singh Dhoni, who is a politician, and a sister, Jayanti Gupta, who is a teacher.
He was the goalkeeper of his football team and was able to play for the district and state level. But on the insistence of his football coach, he tried out to play cricket.
He was selected to the Bihar U-19 squad the very next season. His improved batting and keeping performances led him to be selected to the Bihar Ranji Trophy squad for the 1999 season. He made his debut against the Assam team by scoring an unbeaten score of 68.
He scored his first century the next season but was only able to score at a average of around 40 per game by the 2003 season. In 2003, he was selected to the India A team which went to tour Kenya to play a tri-series tournament with Pakistan A as the third team. In the series he scored 362 runs at an average of 72.40 with back to back centuries against Pakistan.
On the back of his sterling performances in domestic competitions and international tours, he was given a place in the ODI squad for the tour to Bangladesh in 2004. On his debut he was run out for a duck but in his 5th ODI match against Pakistan, he scored 148 off 123 balls to be called a match winning player in the Indian squad. With this performance he had now recorded the highest score by an Indian wicket keeper as well as cemented his place in the side.
Family life
In 2010, Mahi married Sakshi, his childhood sweetheart. Sakhshi was his classmate whilst he was at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali, and she was then studying Hotel Management in Kolkata, and working at The Taj Bengal as a trainee. They have known each other all their lives and their families are close friends as well. Sakshi’s family is native to Dehradun, Uttarkhand. and it’s known that their family moved back once her father retired from his service.
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