MS Dhoni, 32 has been ruled out from Indian team for Asia Cup due to his left-side strain which he got during the second test against New Zealand. According to the cricketing world Dhoni should be taken over by some aggerssive captain at this moment as under his captaincy team India could not able to register a single victory from the last two overseas series against South Africa and New Zealand.
Although Dhoni is deviated from his actual form now but one should not forget that there is also a rich and jovial side where he has gifted us with the top prizes in all formats.
He is a firing right-handed middle order batsman and wicket keeper widely known as one of the greatest finishers in limited-overs cricket.
Dhoni started his international one day cricket career in 2004 against Bangladesh team at Chittagong and did his debut in Test Cricket in 2005 against Sri Lankan team at Chennai. He had taken over the captaincy from Rahul Dravid in the year 2007, and led the team to its first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007–08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, under his captaincy. Aloof of that India had been ranked no 1 for 18 months in Test Cricket under his captaincy. He made India to become the first team in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series.
He is the first captain to win all the three ICC trophies and he is the only captain in the ODIs to score a century while batting at number 7. He did it against Pakistan in December 2012. Beside international cricket Dhoni also captained CSK in Indian Premier League from its first edition and brought victory in 2010 and 2011.
Aside from Sachin Tendulkar , MS Dhoni is arguably the most popular and definitely the most critisised cricketer from India. He has a style of captaincy that balances the ups and downs of both conservatism and unorthodoxy in cricket.
For his over the top achievements he has been awarded including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the award twice), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009.
These statistics shows the brighter side of his captaicncy. Apart from the debate that if he were the best captain of the team or captain of the best team, he has gifted us such wonderful trophies along with excellent and conistent track records.
