MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni

India

Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar
Current age 25 years 236 days
Major teams India, Jharkhand
Also known as Mahi
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Statsguru

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	15	24	1	706	148	30.69	977	72.26	1	3	96	14	41	9
ODIs	66	58	16	1958	183*	46.61	1988	98.49	2	12	159	62	61	12
Twenty20 Int.	1	1	0	0	0	0.00	2	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0
First-class	50	82	4	2676	148	34.30			4	15			144	23
List A	117	106	24	3846	183*	46.90			8	23			124	26
Twenty20	1	1	0	0	0	0.00	2	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4	5	10
Tests	15	6	13	0	-	-	-	13.00	-	0	0	0
ODIs	66	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Twenty20 Int.	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
First-class	50	18	20	0	-	-	-	6.66	-	0	0	0
List A	117	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	1	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
Test debut	India v Sri Lanka at Chennai - Dec 2-6, 2005
Last Test	South Africa v India at Durban - Dec 26-30, 2006
ODI debut	Bangladesh v India at Chittagong (MAA) - Dec 23, 2004
Last ODI	India v Sri Lanka at Visakhapatnam - Feb 17, 2007
Only Twenty20 Int.	South Africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
First-class span	1999/00 - 2006/07
List A span	1999/00 - 2006/07
Twenty20 span	2006/07

Profile

The spectacular arrival of Virender Sehwag was bound to inspire others to bat with the same mindset. But the odds of a clone emerging from the backwaters of Jharkhand, whose state side has consistently scraped the bottom, was highly remote. That was until Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrived. He can be swashbuckling with the bat and secure with the wicketkeeping gloves. His neck-length hair adds to his dash. Though Dhoni made his first-class debut in the 1999-2000 season, it was only in 2004 that he became a serious contender for national selection with some stirring performances when the occasion demanded - a rapid hundred which helped East Zone clinch the Deodhar Trophy and an audacious 60 in the Duleep Trophy final. But it was with his two centuries against Pakistan A, in the triangular tournament in Kenya, that he established himself as a clinical destroyer of bowling attacks. In just his fifth one-dayer, against Pakistan at Vishakapatnam, he cracked a dazzling 148 - putting even Sehwag in the shade - and followed that up with a colossal 183 not out at Jaipur against Sri Lanka in November, when he broke Adam Gilchrist's record for the highest score by a wicketkeeper in ODIs. He made an instant impact on the Test level too, pounding 148 at Faisalabad, in only his fifth Test, when India were struggling to avoid the follow on, and established himself as one of the critical members of a revitilised side. Though he struggled with the bat in the West Indies, he wicketkeeping was top-class, especially when standing up to the stumps against the spinners.