Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar (now Jharkhand)
Current age 36 years 76 days
Major teams India, Asia XI, Bihar, Chennai Super Kings,Jharkhand, Rising Pune Supergiants
Also known as Mahi
Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
MS Dhoni Achievements :
Dhoni has been the recipient of
many awards, including the ICC ODI
Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first
player to win the award twice),
the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest
civilian honour, in 2009.
He was named as the captain of ICC World Test XI
and ICC World ODI XI teams for 2009.
The Indian Territorial
Army conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian
cricketer after Kapil Dev to
have received this honour.
In 2011,
Time magazine
included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of the
"Most Influential People in the World." In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the
sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world. In June 2015, Forbes
ranked Dhoni at 23rd in the list of
highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his
earnings at US$31 million. In 2016, a biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story was made
on him.
MS Dhoni Achievements :
Dhoni has been the recipient of
many awards, including the ICC ODI
Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first
player to win the award twice),
the Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest
civilian honour, in 2009.
He was named as the captain of ICC World Test XI
and ICC World ODI XI teams for 2009.
The Indian Territorial
Army conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian
cricketer after Kapil Dev to
have received this honour.
In 2011,
Time magazine
included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of the
"Most Influential People in the World." In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the
sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world. In June 2015, Forbes
ranked Dhoni at 23rd in the list of
highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his
earnings at US$31 million. In 2016, a biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story was made
on him.
Sports man from UP
Hockey
- Dhyan Chand, former international hockey player, awarded the Padma Bhushan
- Zafar Iqbal, former international captain of the Indian hockey team and Chief coach of Indian hockey team
- K. D. Singh, former national hockey player and Olympian
- Mohammed Shahid, former international hockey player; member of the Indian team that won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow; awarded Arjuna Award in 1980 and Padma Shri in 1986
- Jagbir Singh, captain and member of National Hockey team in 1988 and 1992 Olympics; awarded Arjuna Award in 1990
Baseball
- Rinku Singh, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
- Dinesh Patel, one of the first two Indians to sign a professional baseball contract in the United States
Cricket
- Arun Lal, former Test cricketer
- Ashish Zaidi, cricketer
- Obaid Kamal, cricketer
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar, international cricketer
- Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer
- Gyanendra Pandey, cricketer
- Hemlata Kala, member of Indian women's cricket team
- Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer
- Mohammed Kaif, international cricketer
- Mohammed Shami, international cricketer
- Narendra Hirwani
- Piyush Chawla
- Praveen Kumar
- R. P. Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.), international cricketer
- Swapnil Singh, Rae Bareli (U.P.)
- Rajinder Hans
- Raman Lamba
- Ravikant Shukla, U-19 captain
- Rohan Gavaskar
- Sudip Tyagi
- Suresh Raina, international cricketer
- Surinder Amarnath
- Umesh Yadav, Deoria (U.P.), Indian cricketer
- Kuldeep Yadav, cricketer
Badminton
- Abhinn Shyam Gupta, former national badminton champion
- Syed Modi, former national badminton champion
Other sports
- Annu Raj Singh, shooter
- Moraad Ali Khan, shooter
- Ghaus Mohammad, tennis player, the first Indian to reach quarterfinal of The Championships, Wimbledon
- Jaspal Rana, shooter
Sports Man from Bihar
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Saba Karim
- Kirti Azad
- Subroto Banerjee
- Shivnath Singh
- Thomas Jameson
- Zafar Iqbal
- Rashmi Kumari
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Kavita Roy
- M.S.Dhoni
- Veer Pratap Singh
- Varun Aaron
- Ishan Kishan
- Deepika Kumari
- Purnima Mahato
- Randhir Singh
- Premlata Agarwal
- Sanjay Balmuchu
- Lal Mohan Hansda
- Aruna Mishra
- Jaipal Singh
- Shahbaz Nadeem
- Sharad Kumar
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