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An Article published in “Wisden Cricketer”, Feb 2009 Edition, UK.There is this remarkable photograph of a police jeep. You cannot see all of it. You can see the roof and the windshield but the rest is buried in people. Some 2,000 of them have surrounded the vehicle. They have clambered on to the balconies of adjoining buildings. Seen black-and-white in the newspaper, the photo – the futile bereted policemen with lathis, the hundreds of black-haired heads in animation – has the feel of a riot.In fact, it was that Mahendra Singh Dhoni, sensation of India, had been at a salon for a haircut in his hometown of Ranchi in Jharkhand. Word spread. There was a girls’ college nearby. After four hours he had to be extricated by the police.
ahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni pronunciation (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer. He is an aggressive right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper. He is currently ranked number four in the official ICC cricket rankings for batsmen in Limited over internationals.He was picked to play for the Indian cricket team in December 2004 and has been a regular member of the Indian one-day international team since then. His success in the limited overs format has also secured him a Test spot, and he is rapidly becoming one of the most famous & marketable icons in India, noted for his shoulder length hair.Dhoni (affectionately known as Mahi), made his debut for Jharkhand in the 1999-2000 season as an eighteen year old. He started off his career with modest performances at the local level. He was noticed by the national team selectors in 2004 after his performances in first class tournaments such as the Deodhar Trophy and the Duleep Trophy. Dhoni was selected to represent India ‘A’ on a tour of Kenya and hisperformances were good enough to win him selection in the Indian national team, making his one-day international debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong in December of that year.Dhoni’s best performance for India thus far was an unbeaten score of off balls against Sri Lanka at Jaipur on October 2005, equalling the second best score by an Indian in ODIs. It was also the highest innings recorded by a wicket-keeper, and the highest number of sixes in an innings for a wicketkeeper with ten all-rounders Sanath Jayasuriya and Shahid Afridi have hit . He also broke Saeed Anwar’s record of most runs scored off boundaries by scoring a total of 120 runs off 4s and 6s eclipsing the previous record of 118. [1] This has broken the record for the highest individual score for a team batting second. This has also established the newIndian record of number of sixes in a match, overtaking previous record holders, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly (both hit seven 6′s in a match). Earlier, in 2005 he scored 148 against Pakistan in Vishakapatnam, in his fifth one-dayinternational; the score came off only 123 deliverieAt the end of the year Dhoni was rewarded a BCCI contract, starting with a B-grade contractDhoni’s current batting average in ODIs is just over 50 (as of April 2006), the highest by any Indian player with more than 20 innings. With a career ODI batting strike rate of more than 100 he remains the only batsman with the unique double of a 50+ average scored at more
M S Dhoni
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M S Dhoni
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M S Dhoni