Captain Cool

The title seems to be familiar. This is post is about the hero whose emergent made team India No1 in test  cricket rankings. Its the Captain, Mahi.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also known as Mahi, was born on 7th july,1981 at Ranchi. He is the Captain and also the wicket keeper of the Indian cricket team. MSD started his international career during India's tour of Bangladesh during 2004/05 season under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. MSD played the last match of the series and got a chance to bat too. But couldn't make it up. He just lasted for few deliveries and got out for a duck. But the time came when Ganguly made MSD to bat at no.3 during a match against Pakistan. That was his 5th ODI match. He became the 2nd Indian wicketkeeper to hit a century (First being R.Dravid). He blasted away the balls and ended up with 147. India went on to win the match. Even then MSD was used as a finisher due to his blazing bstting skills. But he proved, when needed he could give another such match-winning innings. Sri Lanka set up a huge target of 300 in a match. Sachin soon got out, then came our hero, he blasted all balls to the boundaries and ended up unbeaten at 183. This is the highest score by any wicket-keeper in an ODI. MSD was then stepped up to vice-captain after the exit of Ganguly from his captaincy and Sachin declined his offer as a vice-captain. Dhoni was given the chance. In absence of the regular captain, Dravid, He managed to win 2 ODIs of the two played under his captaincy. The time came when the Big Three Opted out for the inaugural ICC World T20 cup at South Africa. India won the T20 championship under his captaincy. From then, Dhoni was made the captain of the ODI team after Dravid himself stepped down because of his poor performance and after the retirement of Kumble, MSD was also made the captain of the test side too! Dhoni was a man with Midas touch, Indian team kept on winning all the series. Dhoni had excellent captaincy record especially in tests, he lost just 2 matches of the 21 played and won 13 matches and hasn't lost a series yet. Win-loss ratio of 6.50 which is incredible for any captain. Captain cool is now the back-bone of the Indian Cricket Team. Apart from that He is also the captain of the IPL team Chennai Super Kings. Under his captaincy, CSK performed consistantly by reaching finals and semi finals and they went on to win the IPL-3 and also the Airtel Champions League. MSD is obiviously a real cricketting hero!!