Indian
Midas
The man with Golden touch
Its not just luck but hardwork, team management, keeping cool, accepting criticisms......
In
just 4 years of captaincy, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has emerged as one of India's
most successful captain this cricket crazy country has seen. The captain cool
has led the team to many first under his captaincy. Dhoni led Team India to No.
1 in the ICC Test Rankings for the first time in December 2009 and also closed
the gap with Australia in one-dayers after winning the coveted 2011 Cricket
World Cup. Dhoni started his captaincy career with the shortest format of the
game and immediately led an inexperienced India Twenty20 squad to the inaugural
ICC World Twenty20 victory in South Africa in September 2007. Soon after
returning victorious in the World Twenty20, he was made the India's one-day
international captain for the seven-match ODI series against Australia in
September 2007. After serving the team as vice-captain for a while, Dhoni was
made full-time Test captain of India during the fourth Test against Australia
at Nagpur in November 2008 replacing Anil Kumble, who announced his retirement
after the third Test. Dhoni made his mark in the international cricket soon
after his ODI debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh. He scored a
match-winning 148 against Pakistan in Vishakapatnam off 123 balls in his fifth
ODI and announced his arrival in the international arena. Dhoni made his Test
debut against Sri Lanka in December 2005. Similar to his one-day career, he slammed
his maiden century (148) against Pakistan in 2006. His maiden ton came off 93
balls and is the fastest hundred scored by an Indian wicket-keeper.
Awards
Dhoni
has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC
ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009
(the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma
shri India's fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009.
He was named as the captain of ICC World Test XI and ICC World ODI XI teams for
2009. The Indian Territorial Army conferred the
honorary rank of Lieutenant
Colonel to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second
Indian cricketer after Kapil
Dev to have received this honour.In 2009, Dhoni topped the list
of world’s top 10 earning cricketers compiled by Forbes. In
June 2013, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 16th in the list
of highest paid athletes in the world, estimating his
earnings at $31.5 million. The TIME magazine has added Dhoni in its "Time 100" list of 100
most influential people of 2011.[ Sports Pro has rated
Dhoni as the 16th most remarkable athlete in the world.
In B-School syllabi
Indian cricket captain Mahendra
Singh dhoni isn't 30 yet but he is already one of India's most iconic figures.
From being an inspiration to millions, Dhoni is now the subject of a management
curriculum.
Be it the historic first on a
sunny afternoon in Johannesburg or the mighty heave that landed the trophy that
an entire nation had waited for nearly three decades, MS Dhoni's exemplary
leadership skills and self-confidence is already much talked about.
The Indian captain has now become
a role model not just for budding cricketers but also for management students.
At IFIM Business School in Bangalore, Dhoni's case study has been made a part
of the mandatory paper on leadership skills of the school's curriculum.
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