As a cricketer, you can remember Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a successful captain, a great wicketkeeper and a great finisher. When Dhoni entered international cricket, he removed the biggest weakness of the Indian team. He gave the team the perfect balance. Wicketkeeping was the biggest problem of the team before Dhoni’s selection. Many cricketers were tried before them, but the problem did not go away. The result was that Rahul Dravid had to take wicketkeeping. After Dhoni’s arrival, the Indian team’s weakest link turned into a force. Mahi, who led the team to new heights, initially did not want to become a cricketer. He loved football. Now imagine what would happen if Dhoni did not get Indian cricket?
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Born on 7 July 1981 in Ranchi, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was in the football team as a child. Apart from this he used to play badminton occasionally. He had no connection with cricket and did not even want to play. Dhoni, a scholar from Ranchi’s Jawahar Vidyalaya Mandir, Shyamali, was a goalkeeper in the football team. The year 1992, when he was in the sixth grade, the school cricket team needed a wicketkeeper. Dhoni’s attention came to Dhoni’s childhood sports guru Keshav Banerjee. He thought that when this boy stops the football, he will also catch the cricket ball, that is, keeping the wicket. After this, he refused Dhoni and took him to the cricket field. After that, Dhoni did not look back again.
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Performance as wicketkeeper
When Dhoni came in international cricket, many questions were raised about his wicketkeeping. Dhoni had a goalkeeping technique. For this reason many believed that he would struggle a lot for this reason, but this did not happen. He proved the people who raised the question wrong. He worked a lot on wicketkeeping and joined the top wicketkeepers in the world. As a wicketkeeper, he took 256 catches in Test and made 38 stumps. He took 321 catches and stumped 123 in ODIs. He made 57 catches and 34 stumps in T20.
