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The boy with long hair, thousands of dream in his eyes coming from a small town When he got golden Duck and was sent back to the pavilion in his first ever international game. Np one would have imagined that this boy would come so far and would prove everyone of them wrong.
On 23 December 2004, Dhoni donned the Indian kit for the first time during an ODI game against Bangladesh in Chattogram. Though there were high expectations from him owing to his domestic numbers, He only managed to deliver a single run from his bat on his 1st international match against Bangladesh.
under the Captaincy of Sourav Ganguly, India was on 180 runs with loss of 5 wickets when MS entered the ground joining hands with Mohammad Kaif, the adrenaline rush with in the youth to make the country proud of him worked against his will and out got after hitting a run on the ground when Bangladesh keeper Khaled Mashud rattled the stumps. There was no sign of frustration and Dhoni calmly left the ground.
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Though his 1st half was full of disappointment, rest of his cricket is the history to be remembered, MS Dhoni, arguably the sharpest mind of modern-day sports, bid adieu to international cricket on 15 August 2020.
Majority of us would not be remembering his entry into the world of cricket but Every one of us defiantly would have cried on his Fairwell. His calm and cool nature made him different from others and hence was named as “Captain cool”. In his 16 year-long international career, Captain Cool decorated his trophy cabinet with the T20 World Cup (2007), ICC World Cup (2011) and ICC Champions Trophy (2013). He emerged to be the first-ever and only captain to lift all major ICC trophies.
He led the Men in Blue to become the world’s No 1 Test side in 2009 and ensured they remained at the top for almost 600 days. Dhoni also recorded 21 Test victories on home soil, the most by any Indian skipper so far. the legendary finisher was named the ICC ODI player of the year two consecutive times, in 2008 and 2009. Throughout his illustrated career, Dhoni has played 350 ODIs and 90 Tests and registered 10773 and 4876 runs, respectively. He also has an excellent record in T20Is having scored 1617 runs in 98 games.
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