Mahendra Singh Dhoni News

Dhoni forsees a good show in Sri Lanka

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Jharkhanda boy, lauded for his dashing batting and model looks predicted a good performance by India team in the upcoming triseries in Sri Lanka. Dhoni has complete faith in the potential of his co-players and expects a good show in Lanka. On the victorious return of Indian team from West Indies, at the airport, Dhoni spoke to the reporters that “The tour will be tough and challenging, but we are confident of doing well in Sri Lanka.” Dhoni feels that the experience he and his team mates have acquired during the West Indies series will be of great use in doing well in Sri Lanka. About India’s test series win in West Indies the macho cricketer said “it was a great feeling to win the Test series there after 35 long years. The achievement was a team effort.”

MTV announces Mahendra Singh Dhoni the youth icon for this year

Recently the robust looking excellent wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been voted as the MTV Youth Icon for the year 2006. Surprisingly Dhoni acquired maximum number of votes despite of having some strong contenders such as John Abraham (movies), President APJ Abdul Kalam (science and technology), Abhijeet Sawant (music), Vijay Mallaya (business) and Navjot Singh Sidhu (television).

The polling was done by young people between 15 and 24 years of age. The polls were held via SMS and online in ten major cities of Ahemdabad, Chennai, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Indore, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.

So now Dhoni who was nowhwere few years before is not just one of the leading players of the Indian cricket team but has also joined the list of great Youth Icon awardees like industrialist Anil Ambani, indian skipper Rahul Dravid and Bollywood heartthrob Shahrukh Khan.

23 Apr 2006
Jharkhand wants Dhoni to bat for literacy

The Jharkhand government is trying to rope in local boy Mahendra Singh Dhoni to make its literacy campaign a success.

"We are trying to take the help of Dhoni for our education programme. Ranchi Deputy Commissioner (DC) Pradeep Kumar has been asked to talk to Dhoni for his consent," a senior government said.

Jharkhand's human resources department (HRD) had launched a "Go to School" campaign last week to improve the literacy rate in the academically backward state.

Bollywood actor Farooq Sheikh has also consented to participate in the programme and he is expected to arrive here April 25.

"Dhoni is from Ranchi and a superstar of Indian cricket. If he moves with the officials in an awareness programme it will have a great impact on the people," said the official.

Sources said Dhoni has already been informed and has reacted positively.

The campaign for schooling was launched under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) with the help of Unicef by Chief Minister Arjun Munda in Ranchi.

In Jharkhand, the literacy rate is 54 percent as against the national average of 65 percent. The literacy rate among women is only 39 percent.





20 Apr 2006
Dhoni goes to the top of LG ICC Player Rankings

India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni has moved to the top of the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen.

Dhoni was in second spot behind Ricky Ponting before the two-match ODI series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi that finished on Wednesday night.


But his 59 in India's series-levelling win in the second match has been enough to move him one rating point ahead of the Australian captain.


It caps a remarkably rapid rise for the 24 year-old from Bihar because he only made his ODI debut in December 2004 but his statistics provide compelling support for his position on top of the world.


In 42 matches he averages 52.76 with two hundreds and eight fifties and, equally significantly, he has made those runs at an awesome strike-rate of 103 runs per hundred balls.


Dhoni is one of three India batsmen in the top 10 places of the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen with captain Rahul Dravid ninth (up two places) and Yuvraj Singh (10th) also featuring.


Further down the list are the injured Sachin Tendulkar in joint 21st spot with Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya and Virender Sehwag, whose return to form with 73 on Wednesday has seen him move back up four places to joint 24th position, alongside England's Andrew Strauss.


Irfan Pathan remains India's top-ranked bowler in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers and has moved up one spot to third in the list with only Shaun Pollock of South Africa and Australia's Glenn McGrath ahead of him.


Pathan remains in third position in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI all-rounders behind Pollock and England's Andrew Flintoff but he now has his best-ever haul of rating points.


The other India player in the bowling top 10 is spinner Harbhajan Singh, in 10th position, but he slipped three spots as a result of his performances in Abu Dhabi. However, several other Indian bowlers are on the way up the list.


Ajit Agarkar is up four spots to 21st position, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth rises 12 places to be joint 54th (alongside Bangladesh's Manjural Islam Rana) and Ramesh Powar has broken into the top 100, up 19 places to 82nd in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers.


Pakistan have three batsmen in the top 25 with captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Yousuf in joint 15th position and Shoaib Malik in 23rd spot. Younis Khan, whose unbeaten 71 guided his side to victory on Tuesday, is up eight places to joint 44th alongside Sri Lanka's Russel Arnold.


The leading Pakistan bowler in the LG ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers is Naved-ul-Hasan, who remains unchanged in 12th position while Shoaib Malik is in fifth spot in the all-rounder list.


The shared two-match series means India and Pakistan remain unchanged in the LG ICC ODI Championship table in third and fourth places respectively.


India trail second-placed South Africa by three points and are 16 points behind leaders Australia while Pakistan are two points back from India.