Indian Best Captain No 1 M.S.Dhoni

                                              ''     M. S. Dhoni  ''

                 

                M. S. Dhoni; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team in limited-overs formats. An attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest finishers in limited-overs cricket.

 

Full name	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born	7 July 1981 (age 35)
Nickname	Mahi, MS, MSD, Captain Cool
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style	Right-hand batsman
Bowling style	Right-arm
Role	Wicket keeper -Captain

                     

               In the late 90s and during Greg Chappell's coaching era, when heads were tumbling through the Indian team's turmoil, it seems all that Mahendra Singh Dhoni did was chalk out a plan on how things would change for the better. When granted the opportunity to lead, he showed himself ready and emerged as the solution to most of India's problems, enough to finally fulfill expectations of a long-suffering crowd of supporters.

              

While promoting The Untold Story in New York, Dhoni recounted the story after the World Cup of 2007. India had, under Sourav Ganguly’s captaincy and John Wright’s coaching, finished runner-up in the previous edition of 2003. The expectations in 2007 with Dravid (captain) and Greg Chappell (coach) in command were higher. 

The India cricket fan is known for his extreme emotion. In success, the cricketers would be treated as demigods; in failure, their homes can even be attacked. The latter happened after the 2007 World Cup. 

Irate fans threw stones at Dhoni’s house. At the press conference in Fox Building at Manhattan, Dhoni narrated the events after the team landed in Delhi. “At that point of time, when we landed, we had to get out in a police van. I was sitting next to Viru (Virender Sehwag) paaji. It was evening or night-time. We were travelling at a decent speed—60 or 70 km—and that’s quite a bit for India, that too on the narrow roads.

                 Dhoni began to eye the 50-over World Cup—2007 was to be avenged. Ahead of the Commonwealth Bank series in Australia, with Sri Lanka as the third team, Dhoni asked the selectors to drop some of the senior players who were not good on the field. 

               It was alright for Dhoni to have begun phasing out senior players with an eye on the next World Cup but to use this episode for pushing his image with the help of sanctimonious dialogues in a biopic he himself greenlighted, was definitely not in sporting spirit.

''Captain fantastic ''

                Dhoni was off to a flying start in his role as the India skipper. After Anil Kumble’s retirement later in 2008, Dhoni assumed the captaincy of Test team as well. 

                 

                In about a year, India had ascended to the top rank in Test cricket, their first time ever. Then onwards, he went on to achieve the dream of every Indian cricket fan. India won the World Cup in 2011 after a gap of 28 years. 

Dhoni is the only Indian captain to have won India all of the following: the World Cup, the World T20, the Champions Trophy and rank one in Test cricket. No one even comes close.