The Former India skipper MS Dhoni is going to turn a year older on Tuesday. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is going to celebrate his 39th birthday on July 7, 2020. Dhoni was born on this day in 1981, MS Dhoni became one of the most successful captains and wicket keeper batsman of this generation.
Last month, Lakshmi Narayanan, the Team Manager of Chennai Super Kings, had started a #DhoniBirthdayCDP trend. He asked the fans to use Dhoni’s image as their DP.
A number of Twitteratis have already changed their DPs and also extended warm birthday wishes to Dhoni in advance.
Rare picture of mahi @msdhoni #DhoniBirthdayCDP pic.twitter.com/T9iySV2s7V
— Dhoni Tharane 2⃣ ˢᵒᵒʳᵃʳᵃⁱ ᵖᵒᵗᵗʳᵘ (@Tharane_twetz) June 28, 2020
Dhoni was born on July 7th, 1981 in Ranchi.
Rare Pic Of MS #Dhoni 🙂 ♥ A perfect example of rags to riches 🙂#RESPECT #IndvAus #MSD pic.twitter.com/rhYmtORuoF
— Roshan Kumar (@Roshan_44) March 11, 2013
He played junior cricket for Bihar before making it to the senior team. Dhoni made his India debut in an ODI against Bangladesh 2004. A year later, he played his first Test against Sri Lanka in Chennai.
Rare Pic Of MS Dhoni ?? pic.twitter.com/9QS46D0jhr
— DHONI Trends™ (@TrendsDhoni) April 19, 2019
Dhoni ended Team India’s hunt to find a long-term wicketkeeper and became the first-choice keeper-batsman. In 2007, he led Men in Blue to a victory in the inaugural edition of T20 World Cup in South Africa. He was also named as India’s full-time ODI captain in September 2007. Next year, he replaced Anil Kumble as Test captain.
One man, many emotions!
But it's only ♥️ for Thala during his birthday week!Join us as we celebrate the #DhoniBirthdaySpecial with some of his ? outings from July 1-8, every day at 11 AM on Star Sports. pic.twitter.com/fe5VDZGtac
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) July 1, 2020
Meanwhile, Dhoni received his maiden cap in the shortest format of the game against New Zealand in Manchester in July 9.
Rare Unseen Image from
Dhoni's Match winning 114 runs against central zone in 2003. ?♥️#Dhoni | ? Courtesy : S Partronobish pic.twitter.com/9PUBdAUtNP— DHONIsm™ ❤️ (@DHONIism) June 11, 2020
He was all set to make a return as a captain of the CSK in the 2020 edition of IPL, which was originally slated to take place from March 29 to May 24 but was postponed indefinitely by the BCCI in the wake of COVID-19.
@msdhoni #HappyBirthdayDhoni
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MSDHONI? @SaakshiSRawat ❤️❤️ #HappyAnniversaryDhoniSakshi #HappyAnniversary #DhoniBirthdayMashUp #DhoniBdayCDP #DhoniBirthdayCDP #HappyBirthdayDhoni pic.twitter.com/gO1J96epm9 pic.twitter.com/1Cpxm58B7q— தோனி ராம் குறும்பலாப்பேரி (@rammurugesan45) July 6, 2020
Dhoni retired from Test cricket in 2014 and handed the charge to Virat Kohli. In 2017, he relinquished the top job in white-ball cricket as well. Dhoni is yet to retire from the game but hasn’t played any competitive game for a year now. He is confirmed to lead Chennai Super Kings whenever the T20 league takes place.
