On the occasion of the release of MS Dhoni

1. Do you know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army? The Indian army gave him this Honorary rank in 2011. "I love my country, I tell my wife she is only the third most important after my country and my parents, in that order," Dhoni once said 2. Dhoni is the first player to score 1000 T20 runs without scoring a half-century. 3. He Excels in both Football and badminton. He got selected for the district level teams for both the sports. 4. He ranked 16th on Forbes list of highest-paid athletes. 5. In 296 ODIs Dhoni has amassed 9496 runs at an average of 51.32 with 10 hundreds and 64 fifties. He is the second highest run-scorer as a wicketkeeper in one-day internationals. 6. He is the only captain in world cricket to win all three ICC trophies - 2007 World T20, 2011 World Cup and 2013 Champions Trophy. 7. Dhoni is the third captain in world cricket to win more than 100 ODI matches after Australia's Ricky Ponting and Allan Border. 8. He also holds the record for playing the most number of international matches as captain (331). 9. He is the only cricketer to feature in eight IPL finals. He has won the tournament thrice with Chennai Super Kings in 2010, 2011 and 2018, being the only captain to defend the title. 10. Dhoni was a huge fan of John Abraham copied and had long hair just like him. He even cut his hair short when the Bollywood actor did so.