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MSD Mahendra Singh Dhoni HOME Childhood & Cricket Born on July 7th 1981 in Ranchi, Dhoni was a brilliant child in sports like badminton and football, but his coach had other ideas. His coach saw his potential as a goalkeeper and turned his goalkeeping skills into wicket keeping. He was a big fan of Adam Gilchrist and his inspirations were his cricketing teammate Sachin Tendulkar, bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and singer Lata Mangeshkar. Entrance into Ranji Trophy After playing a lot of cricket in his his early teenage,he decided what is going to be his future goal. He showed lot of interest in cricket and shocked everybody by his wicket keeping. Later he made his Ranji debut in 1999 - 2000 India A team He performed really well in the Ranji trophy and was reconized by the BCCI and was selected for the India A team in 2003 for an ODI series against Zimbabwe. H

  UNIQUE RECORDS BY CRICKETERS EVER  HOME MS DHONI: MSD is the only captain the world to claim all the ICC trophies i.e., ICC T20 Trophy (2007); ICC World Cup (2011) and ICC Champions Trophy (2013).  He is also the first wicket - keeper to cross 100 stumpings and also regarded as one of the fastest wicket - keepers in the world. AB de VILLIERS: AB de Villiers has the record of the fastest century in ODIs, he scored a century of just 31 balls against the West Indies. A pic of the match where AB scored the fastest century in ODI cricket.     SACHIN TENDULKAR: Sachin Tendulkar is the first player to have hit 100 centuries in his career (51 in Tests; 49 in ODIs). Sachin Tendulkar    CHRIS GAYLE: Chris Gayle is the first player to smash 1,000 sixes in T20s. Chris Gayle    ANIL KUMBLE: Anil Kumble is the only cricketer till now to take all 10 wickets in a single innings. It was in a test match played against Pakistan that Kumble set this record. The bowling figure

                        HISTORY of CRICKET  Birth of CRICKET: HOME Cricket was originated in South East England in the mid 16 th century Cricket was generally considered as a game for children for many generations until it was taken up by men professionally. It was developed globally during the 19 th and 20 th centuries although international matches had been played since 1844.                                                             Birth of Cricket in INDIA: In India cricket was brought in by the British in the early 1700s. The first match in India was played in 1721. Seeing the British play the game of cricket it went on to become very much popular among the localites in India. In 1848, the Parsi community in Bombay formed the Oriental Cricket Club which was India’s first Cricket club.   Today it is most preferred and popular game in India. Who INVENTED cricket? It is very much shocking to know that the game of cricket was invented by a group of