Mahendra Singh Dhoni | The Untold Story | Family| Biography

 Mahendra Singh Dhoni | The Untold Story | Family| Biography

This story is of a ticket collector.. ..who used to work in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Later he became the most successful Indian captain. Mahendra Singh Dhoni. 

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born on 7th July 1981. In Ranchi, Bihar which is now in Jharkhand. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is actually connected to a Rajput family. His ancestral house is at Almora, Uttarakhand. Area Lamgarha and the village is Avail. Young Mahendra's parents moved to Ranchi from Uttarakhand.

Here his father, Pan Singh used to work as a junior manager in Macon. Dhoni has a sister Jayanti Gupta. And a brother Narendra Singh Dhoni. Since childhood, he had been a great fan of.. ..Adam Gilchrist, Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar, and Amitabh Bachchan. Where is the other guy?

Mahendra Singh Dhoni did his initial studies from.. ..DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali. He used to like sports from the beginning. He used to play both badminton and football. He used to be the goalkeeper in football. And he didn't know that in cricket also he would only be a wicketkeeper. Because of his goalkeeping a local cricket club.. ..selected him as a cricketer. Though he had never batted. But since he was a good goalkeeper he became a wicketkeeper. This was The Commando Cricket Club.

He was associated with this club from 1995 to 1998. He played so well that he was chosen to play... ..the Vinoo Mankad trophy, under 16. He performed well there too. When he reached class10 he appeared for.. ..the Train Ticket Examinerexams and got selected. Dhoni was doing well in whatever he was doing. By the way, even today he always does the right thing. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a railway employee.. ..for the South Eastern railway at Midnapore.

His colleagues remember him as.. ..a good-hearted and sincere person. But he was also very naughty. Once he played a prank with his friends.. ..while staying in the railway quarters. He wore a white sheet and roamed the entire colony. Even the watchman was scared. And others thought that the colony has become haunted.

Dhoni also played in the Bihar under 19 squad. And then for the Jharkhand team. It became obvious that if Dhoni is batting.. .. then his team is bound to win. He debuted for Ranji Trophy.. ..while playing for the Bihar team. He continued to play cricket from 2000 to 2003.. ..and remained a part of the Ranji trophy. He also performed well in the Deodhar trophy. And had scored an awesome century. Now the question is how did he reach the Indian team? BCCI has a program to find good talent from small towns. And then Prakash Poddar.. ..who was the captain of the Bengal team in 1960.. ..saw Dhoni's talent. So the one who had to see it had seen it.. ..and then Dhoni'stalent worked wonders. First, he was selected for India A. And he played so well that our captain at that time... ..Bengal Tiger DadaSaurav Ganguly saw him. And even Ravi Shashtrihad become a fan of his talent. The Indian team needed a wicket keeper batsman.

Some wanted DineshKartik to be chosen. But Mahendra Singh Dhoni was selected for the 2005 tour of Bangladesh. He scored zero in the first match. Yes, he ran out and couldn't score anything.  He fared badly in the Bangladesh series. But when he was chosen to play with Pakistan.. ..then he made 148 run out of 123 balls in Vishakapatnam. And also created a new record. This was the highest score by a wicket-keeper. Dhoni. Dhoni.Dhoni. Dhoni. Dhoni. Dhoni. And then the match which established Dhoni's talent came. This was the match when Sachin Tendulkar went out pretty soon. Sri Lanka had given a target of 299 runs. And at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur.. ..it was a question of India's honor. Mahendra Singh batted185 balls and made 183 runs. And India won this match. The rest is history.

He gradually became the vice-captain of the team. And then he was chosen captain for T20 games. He was such a brilliant captain in 2007. And the first T20 WorldCup was won by India. After that in 2011, India also won theWorld Cup for One-day internationals. Dhoni continued to make new records.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was one such captain.. ..who increased the respect of previous captains like.. ..Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Azharuddin, and Saurav Ganguly. In personal life Mahendra Singh Dhoni.. ..was married on 4th July 2010 to Sakshi. She is also from Dehradun, Uttarakhand. She was doing her hotel management course when she got married. And on 6th February 2015, Ziva was born to them. Yes, they had a daughter. Cricket is described as a game of fate. But Mahendra SinghDhoni used his talent.. ..to shape a new fate of Indian cricket. To find out about the lives of talented people.....

Posted By: Ritesh Yadav Riti