Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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The word is quite familiar and popular in recent times. Most of the girls fall in love with him, the sexiest sportsperson. Yap I am speaking about the great bachelor cricketer MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI. The great personality in recent times winning most of his matches internationally. Known as the great leader compared with many leaders in the world. He is calm quite doesn’t react to any emotions on or off the field. He is most attractive and most needed valentine this summer.

Indian cricket has touched great standards and heights after BCCI introduced the great gambling show called The IPL which attracted more people all over the globe. Even Dhoni and other players shined due to this IPL. His team came to the finals but due to luck factor he couldn’t win it. He won matches in Srilanka defeating them at their home which is really difficult. He won 2-0 CB Series finals against Australia, which was a great moment to rejoice for Indian cricket.

Dhoni is initially a wicket keeper batsman. His average in ODI is around 45 and test is around 33. He bats India when India needs him. He has different kind of style of playing that no 1 can copy him. There were three contenders in the selection for wicket keepers when Indian cricket was under the hands of Greg Chappel and Rahul Dravid as the skipper. Dinesh Kaarthik, who was keeping well but couldn’t capitalize with his batting,. Prthiv Patel was still small to be in Indian side still to improvise in his keeping also batting as well. So Greg chose M.S.Dhoni, who is the single contender to be selected to the team from his batting style.

There was a little controversy for the Indian captain and coach when India lost in the first round in ICC World cup-2007 in West Indies. The coach has to resign from his post. Then Venkatesh Prasad and Robin Singh took up the charge to take up India from very critical condition. Ravi Shastri was about to be India’s coach but it was ruled out. After India won the series against England in the captainship of Dravid and lost the test series 0-2 against England they had lots of controversies against Dravid to continue as captain. Before everything popularize he gave his resignation as the captain. Later on India was searching for a good captain. They forced Sourav Ganguly to become the skipper again. But he avoided entering that post.

I don’t know whether M.S.Dhoni was lucky that there were no other contender to succeed Dravid that he got a chance to lead India for further matches. He was once tested as captaining his side in Ranaji Trophy matches. Finally he got luck on his side for every game he played. He had played a blistering 183 against Srilanka in India which impressed the selectors to name him as a captain. He captained the side from ending 2007 till now and he will be for more years.

Dhoni shined after his batting style. He entered as a striker of the ball but now he changed himself as more defensive player of the young team India. He won the series against Australia and then he won Twenty-20 World cup, he won series against Srilanka twice once 3-2 and second time its 4-1. He won series against England 5-0 at home. Still to go many miles further in heading to become number 1 team in the world.

In the ODI batting rankings M.S.Dhoni tops with more points followed by Mike Hussey of Australia. He is calm contender, he believes in his team mates more then he believe in himself. He divides the work on the field so that the burden on him will be reduced for some extent. He plays more over gully cricket on the field with full resources in the team at all times. He also have luck factor in his side which make India win many games. He won’t speak with players every time in tough situations too. There is some belief in him as he always chooses heads during toss. When he comes to bat he always removes the gloves and puts it on for every ball to be faced.

Due to God’s grace or his luck he the perfect role model in cricket world now. Indian team has become such strong that all team finding difficult to break the wall. Every players are playing for team India. The Sachin Tendulkar season has gone who played for their own records. The revolution has been taken place Australia losing their form in world cricket. The old strategies of Chappel brothers or of Waugh brothers or Border’s or Gavaskar’s or Kapil’s have been overcome by this gully cricket played by Dhoni and Smith boys which dominated the world. Let the Dhonian period of Indian cricket continue for long time at least till 2011 World cup where every citizen all over the globe waiting for.

VIVEK.G