Mahendra Singh Dhoni, more commonly referred to as MS Dhoni, was an Indian cricketer who captained the Indian national team from 2007 to 2017 in limited-overs formats and from 2008 to 2014 in Test cricket.
Additionally, he is the Chennai Super Kings captain at the moment in the Indian Premier League. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, the most by any captain. He also helped India win the Asia Cup in 2010 and 2016. India also won the 2010 and 2011 ICC Test Mace and the 2013 ICC ODI Championship under his direction.
Dhoni is a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman who is known for being a calm captain and being able to win games when things are tight. Mahi is regarded as one of the best finishers in the game.
In international cricket, he scored 17,266 runs, including 10,000 or more runs in one-day internationals. Additionally, he ranks among cricket’s greatest captains and wicketkeepers of all time.
Dhoni’s ascend to greatness
Dhoni played his final international match when India lost to New Zealand in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup, though it wasn’t officially confirmed until over a year later. There was a lot of speculation about whether Dhoni would quit in the immediate aftermath of that result. He did not, but he did withdraw from India’s series for the remainder of 2019 and the beginning of 2020.
The Coronavirus pandemic then, at that point, stopped all wearing activity. Dhoni made the big announcement on Instagram in August, on India’s Independence Day, just as players began getting ready for the delayed IPL. He was ending his international cricket career.
Dhoni, then a ticket inspector with the Indian Railways, had escaped all attention bar the odd whisper among the followers of club cricket in Kolkata until he was 23 when he blasted two centuries in a triangular 50-over tournament for India A in Nairobi.
Long-haired and fearless, he soon swaggered into international cricket and became an instant darling of the crowds with ODI innings of 148 and 183 within a year of his debut.
Dhoni demonstrated all that was right with the new middle-class India. He didn’t respect reputations but never disrespected them either. He improvised, he learned but didn’t apologize for his batting style, which was not the most elegant. Dhoni became a multi-faceted ODI batsman, one who could accumulate, one who could rebuild, and one who could still unleash those big sixes.
The greatest Captain India had ever seen
Along the way, Dhoni showed good leadership skills which made him the captain after Rahul Dravid stepped down from the position in 2007. Just before that announcement from Dravid, Dhoni had taken a bunch of kids to South Africa and was leading India to a World Cup win in a format the country didn’t even take seriously. The ODI captaincy was a natural progression, and Anil Kumble just kept the seat warm in Tests for a year.
Dhoni played his final international match when India lost to New Zealand in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup, though it wasn’t officially confirmed until over a year later. There was a lot of speculation about whether Dhoni would quit in the immediate aftermath of that result. He did not, but he did withdraw from India’s series for the remainder of 2019 and the beginning of 2020.
The Coronavirus pandemic then, at that point, stopped all wearing activity. Dhoni made the big announcement on Instagram in August, on India’s Independence Day, just as players began getting ready for the delayed IPL. He was ending his international cricket career.
MS Dhoni, His net worth, and sources of income
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, lovingly named ‘Captain Cool’ is one of the most successful Cricketers ever and this followed into his life as well. In his playing days, he was one of the most paid sports persons ever.
Dhoni is one of the richest Indian Sports persons with a net worth of approximately 125 million USD which is 1030 crores rupees in Indian currency, and that too has been achieved by him in very few years. It has been observed that Dhoni has achieved a hike of 32% in his net worth over the past few years. This is partially contributed to the endorsements and the advertisements he is a part of.
He has an average salary of 12 crores annually from IPL alone which is one of the highest. According to reports, he earns over 50 crores annually from the brand endorsements he has.
