Dhoni, who played a key role in winning the World Cup of Cricket in 2011, was born in Ranchi on July 7, 1981, on the strength of his powerful captaincy. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's father's name is Pan Singh and Mataji's name is Devaki Devi. The family has a brother Narendra Singh and sister Jayanti. Dhoni's playing career did not start with cricket, but he used to play badminton and football during school days. The football coach saw his goalkeeping and suggested him to be wicketkeeping in cricket. After which he did cricket and stepped up his footsteps.

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In 1998, Dhoni began his cricketing career and started playing Bihar's Under-19s. Participated in the Ranji Trophy for Bihar in 1999-2000. He then drew the attention of the selectors with a spectacular performance in the Devdhar Trophy, the Duleep Trophy and India A tour of Kenya.

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He was out at 0 against Bangladesh in his first match on December 23, 2004. The star of Dhoni's fortunes then shined so brightly that he didn't look back. Even when the Indian team visited Pakistan under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly in 2006, Dhoni's long-haul stakes were the centre of attraction.

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Parvez Musharraf highly praised him for the hair cut in the third ODI between India and Pakistan in Lahore, when the then President Parvez Musharraf at the award distribution ceremony commented on Dhoni's hairs and told him that his hairstyle was brilliant. Don't cut it, ever.

Dhoni was declared the 'Player of the Match' who scored an unbeaten 72 off 46 balls and set a target of 289. In the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni and his crusaders had the same dream to bid farewell to Sachin Tendulkar with a World Cup victory. For this, Dhoni had vowed to shave his head if he won the World Cup, which he later completed.

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