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Dhoni was conceived on July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar (presently Jharkhand) to Pan Singh and Devaki Devi. He has a sister Jayanti and a sibling Narendra Singh Dhoni. Initially his family had a place with town Lvali in the Lamgarha square of Almora locale of Uttarakhand. He learned at the DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir School in Shyamali, Ranchi, Jharkhand. At first, during his school days, he used to play badminton and football and in actuality was the goalkeeper of his football crew.
When he was sent by his football trainer to play cricket for a nearby cricket club. It was in this match he dazzled everybody with his wicket-keeping aptitudes which brought about getting him an ordinary post of the wicketkeeper at the Commando Cricket Club (1995-1998). He was gotten for the Vinoo Mankad Trophy Under-16 Championship, where he performed well. Dhoni concentrated on cricket subsequent to passing his tenth norm. From 2001 to 2003, he filled in as a Train Ticket Examiner (TTE) at the Kharagpur Railway Station under South Eastern Railway in Midnapore (W), a region in West Bengal.
In the ODI situation, Dhoni has so far played 265 matches scoring 8620 runs, with his most noteworthy being an amazing 183 out off 145 balls not-out against Sri Lanka, in Jaipur, 2005-06. Dhoni finished the arrangement with the most elevated run total (346) and was granted the Man of the Series grant for his endeavors. In December 2005, Dhoni was remunerated a B-grade contract by the BCCI. His ODI wicket-keeping measurements incorporate 246 gets and 85 stumpings. Dhoni made his ICC Cricket World Cup debut in 2007 and played just three matches because of India's initial exit.
India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, among others, under his captaincy. India arrived at the finals in ICC World Cup 2011 with triumphs over Australia and Pakistan in quarter-finals and semi-finals, individually. Pursuing an objective of 275 in the last against Sri Lanka, Dhoni safeguarded his group close by Gautam Gambhir, and later Yuvraj Singh, to assist India with lifting their subsequent World Cup title since 1983. He scored 91 not out, completing the game with a memorable six and asserting the Man of the Match grant.