Mahendra Singh Dhoni Records And Facts

Born: July 07, 1981, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Batting style: Right Handed bat

Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Played for: India, Asia XI, East Zone, India A, India Blue, Indian Board President's XI, India Seniors, Rest of India, Chennai, Jharkhand

Skipper-Test, One Day International,Twenty20 | WicketKeeper

Awards: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, ICC World ODI XI, ODI Player of the Year, CNN-IBN Indian of the Year in Sports.

His records in the limited over match make Dhoni one of the greatest captains in the history of cricket. He is also one of the best finishers in limited overs games

MS Dhoni International Record
Games   Runs   Average   Highest   Catches   Stumpings
Tests:     90         4,876         38.09         224            256 38
ODIs:     250      8,192          52.85        183*           227 85
T20i:       50         849          33.96            48*           25 11

Most matches as India Test captain
Tests    Won    Lost    Drawn    Win %
Dhoni :            60          27         18        15              45.00
Ganguly :        49          21         13        15              42.85
Azharuddin:    47          14          14        19              29.78
Gavaskar :      47           9             8        30              19.14
Nawab of
Pataudi :        40          9            19        12              22.50
Kapil Dev :      34         4             7          22             11.76

Take a look at FACTS on Dhoni

1. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born in Ranchi on July 7, 1981

2. Dhoni was a Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) with the Indian Railways

3. Dhoni made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar in 1999-2000 as an 18-year-old

4. Dhoni's international debut was in a ODI game against Bangladesh on December 23, 2004

5. Dhoni's Test debut was against Sri Lanka on December 2, 2005

6. Dhoni was appointed as India captain in 2007 for the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa
7. India won World T20 in 2007 under his captaincy

8. Dhoni is the only captain in history to have won all three ICC global titles - World T20 2007, 2011 World Cup  and 2013 Champions Trophy

9. Under Dhoni's leadership, India became the number one Test side in ICC Rankings in December 2009

10. Dhoni holds the record in ODIs for the highest score by a wicketkeeper - 183 not out which he hit against Sri Lanka in October, 2005

11. Dhoni has won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest honour for achievement in sports. He was the winner for the season 2007-08

12. Dhoni was named the ICC ODI Player of the Year twice - 2008 and 2009

13. Dhoni was part of ICC World ODI XI for five times in a row - 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

14. He was part of ICC World Test XI in 2009, 2010 and 2013

15. He won the ICC LG Peoples' Choice Award in 2013

16. Dhoni loves motorbikes. He owns over a dozen of bikes. His first motorbike was Yamaha Rajdoot

17. Dhoni is the most successful Indian Test captain with 24 victories

18. Dhoni holds the record for most Tests as India skipper - 53 so far

19. Dhoni holds the Indian record for wicketkeepers in Tests with 263 dismissals (226 catches, 37 stumpings)

20. Dhoni is also India's record-holding stumper in ODIs - 298 dismissals (224 catches, 80 stumpings)

21.He became the first wicket-keeper to have ever led India in Tests.

22. Dhoni's India ODI jersey number is 7, same as his birth date

23.  Dhoni owns a motorbike racing team named Mahi Racing Team India which participates in World Supersport championships.

24. Last month (June, 2014), Dhoni was named in the world's top 100 highest paid athletes list by Forbes.

25. Dhoni signed a bat sponsorship deal with Spartan Sports and Amit University for a combined worth of a record Rs 25 crores.

26. Chennai Super Kings captain Dhoni holds the joint record with Gautam Gambhir of winning two Indian Premier League titles (2010, 2011)

27. Dhoni has a habit of collecting stumps after winning matches. He has a big collection and plans to build a separate room for them after retirement.

28. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2008 and 2009

29. Before playing cricket, Dhoni was a goalkeeper of his school's football team

30. Dhoni was conferred with the rank of honorary Lieutenant Colonel by the Territorial Army.( 2011)

31. Dhoni was awared an honorary doctorate degree by De Montfort University in Britain (2012).

32. Dhoni holds the record for highest Test score by an wicketkeeper-captain in history- 224 (Vs Australia in 2013).

33. Dhoni is the first Indian wicketkeeper to complete 4,000 runs in Test cricket. He holds several other cricket records.

34.Dhoni married Sakshi Singh Rawat on July 4, 2010.

35. Dhoni has his own signature brand of perfumes - "7 By MS Dhoni".