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Mahendra Dhoni

Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Born: 7th July 1981, Ranchi, Bihar, India

Batting: Right-hand batsman
Wicket-keeper

Teams: India (Test: 2005/06-2007/08); India (ODI: 2004/05-2007/08); Asian Cricket Council XI (ODI: 2007); India (Int Twenty20: 2006/07-2007/08); Bihar (Main FC: 1999/00-2003/04); Jharkhand (Main FC: 2004/05); Bihar (Main ListA: 1999/00-2003/04); Jharkhand (Main ListA: 2004/05); Jharkhand (Main Twenty20: 2006/07); All teams

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India, Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rates

India, Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rates

India drops charge against Australia’s Brad Hogg

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Pictures: Mahendra Singh Dhoni is bowled by Shoaib Akhtar

Dhoni plays a shot

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is bowled by Umar Gul

Mahendra Singh Dhoni & Shoaib Malik are ready to leave the ground after the toss

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He is the hottest property in Indian cricket today. A great favourite with young and old alike because of his uninhibited batting style Dhoni symbolizes youthful exuberance and is the pin up boy supreme. He is in newspaper ads, TV ads and hoardings all over the country endorsing various products and his long mane has been much imitated. On the field Dhoni can be a law unto himself pulling, hooking, driving and cutting bowlers to the fence repeatedly with strokes that might or might not be out of the textbook. His clean hitting has exasperated captains, bowlers and fielders and he has frequently put even Virender Sehwag into the shade. Like when he slammed a dazzling 148 off 123 balls against Pakistan at Vishakapatnam in 2005 or when he plundered the Sri Lankan attack for an unbeaten 183 off 145 balls later that same year at Jaipur, surpassing Adam Gilchrists record for the highest score by a wicket keeper in ODIs. In the course of this swashbuckling knock he smacked 15 fours and ten sixes a record 120 in boundaries for an ODI innings. It did not seem possible that Dhoni could carry this buccaneering approach into the Test arena but the prodigiously gifted lad from Jharkand did just that symbolized by his 148 struck in inimitable style against Pakistan at Faisalabad in 2006 made at a time when India were struggling to avoid the follow on. A strike rate of 100 in ODIs and almost 73 in Tests underlines his ability to dominate the bowling. Dhonis pyrotechnics with the bat has tended to overshadow his work behind the stumps that is brilliant both while keeping to pacemen or spinners.

Test Career Batting and Fielding (2005/06-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct	St
India	29	47	5	1418	148	33.76	1	9	63.02	68	14

Test Career Bowling (2005/06)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM	SRate	Econ
India	6	0	13	0	0-13					13.00

First-Class Career Batting and Fielding (1999/00-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct	St
Overall	68	110	8	3497	148	34.28	4	22	170	32

First-Class Career Bowling (2002/03-2007)
	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BB	Ave	5wI	10wM	SRate	Econ
Overall	36	1	33	0	0-7					5.50

One-Day International Career Batting and Fielding (2004/05-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct	St
India	103	93	25	3011	183*	44.27	2	19	90.52	103	28
Asian Cricket Council XI	3	3	1	174	139*	87.00	1	0	125.17	3	3
Overall	106	96	26	3185	183*	45.50	3	19	91.91	106	31

One-Day Career Batting and Fielding (1999/00-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	Ct	St
Overall	158	144	34	5073	183*	46.11	9	30	170	46

International Twenty20 Career Batting and Fielding (2006/07-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
India	10	9	2	172	45	24.57	0	0	111.68	2

Twenty20 Career Batting and Fielding (2006/07-2007/08)
	M	I	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	SRate	Ct
Overall	24	23	7	627	73*	39.18	0	3	132.83	8