India's ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrates his 35th birthday today and the cricket fraternity from BCCI president to his former and current teammates, sent their wishes
MS Dhoni
India's ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrates his 35th birthday today and the cricket fraternity from BCCI president to his former and current teammates, sent their wishes.
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Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar wished the man from Jharkand along with a pic from their playing days saying: Happy Birthday @msdhoni .. Have a wonderful and blessed year ahead!!
Happy Birthday @msdhoni .. Have a wonderful and blessed year ahead!! pic.twitter.com/DfiwtYqB9l
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) July 7, 2016
Virender Sehwag wished the Ranchi boy in his trademark humoured style and called for declaring July 7 as 'National Helicopter Day'.
Happy Birthday @msdhoni .
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) July 7, 2016
May you keep doing Anhoni ko Honi.#NationalHelicopterDay pic.twitter.com/PGHp9M6gNT
Besides Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman too wished the wicketkeeper on his special day.
Happy Birthday @msdhoni ðu00c2u009fu00c2u008eu00c2u0082 ðu00c2u009fu00c2u008eu00c2u0089ðu00c2u009fu00c2u008eu00c2u0081
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) July 7, 2016
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) official handle posted: "Happy Birthday to one of the greatest captains of all
time, as well as an exceptional batsman and WK, @msdhoni!".
Amitabh Bachchan wrote, "Happy birthday MS."
T 2309 - Happy birthday MS .. pic.twitter.com/Ccn2mujfQs
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) July 6, 2016
The International Cricket Council also paid tribute to the cricket star with a birthday wish as well as a throwback post.
Happy Birthday to one of the greatest captains of all time, as well as an exceptional batsman and WK, @msdhoni! pic.twitter.com/rJj4i8Brds
— ICC (@ICC) July 7, 2016
#ThrowbackThursday - @msdhoni makes his ODI debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong back in 2004. pic.twitter.com/TJROb5bKKd
— ICC (@ICC) July 7, 2016
BCCI President Anurag Thakur also went on to send his wishes to the ODI skipper.
#HappyBirthday @msdhoni wish you a great day & 'tons' of success ! :-)
— Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) July 7, 2016
Lot of India and India A team members wished him on the day.
Dhoni is the only Indian captain to have led his side in all three major ICC tournaments. Right from winning the maiden T20 World Cup in 2007 on his debut as captain to leading India to a World Cup title on home soil in 2011 and helping the team maintain the top spot in the Test rankings, he is the most successful Indian captain.
In 2013, he also became the only Indian captain to clinch the ICC Champions Trophy.
Dhoni has scored 8918 runs from 278 ODIs that he has played so far at a strike rate of 89.27.
Under Dhoni's captaincy, India remained the number one Test team for a period of 18 months from December 2009.
He has scored 4876 runs in 90 Test matches that includes 9 hundreds and 33 fifties.