Some Lesser Known Facts About M.S. Dhoni?

Most of the things have already known to you, so they are not lesser known facts anymore.
Here are some facts that I am sure not many people know:

 

1.     Man behind the helicopter shot :

We all know MS Dhoni for his helicopter shot right? He has made the shot his trademark. The shot was taught to him by his friend, former Jharkhand cricketer Santosh Lal. Unfortunately, Lal passed away at a young age of 32 in 2013. Dhoni had arranged for his treatment in Delhi, but couldn’t save him.

2.    Man/Woman behind his hairstyle :

Before the international media started to take note of his cricketing skills, Dhoni was making headlines for his look and hairstyle. His long locks had even made Pakistan President Parvez Musharraf his fan. But do you know what made his keep the long hair? It has his admiration for John Abraham. Dhoni is a huge fan of the fit actor and we guess it is because of this admiration that today and John and Dhoni are the best of friends.

But why were those long tresses cut short? Well, it was done for his beloved wife. It was Sakshi's decision to trim his hair :-)

3.    Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the first Indian cricketer (infact the first cricketer I think) to launch his own line of fragrances named '7 By MS Dhoni'

[That's the way , Maahi way]

Why 7 ? because his lucky number is 7 apparently (his jersey number as well)

In his own words , "I was born on the 7th of July in 1981, my jersey number is seven, and thus number seven is very special for me. I love the number 7." "It is a neutral number, it is neither negative or positive so that means the (fragrance) can reflect you. If you are positive and you work hard then it will all be positive for you."

The six fragrances under the collection of perfumes are named -
Intense, Power, Action, Connect, Cool and Energy.

4.    MS Dhoni’s rise to the highest level was not a smooth journey. Even after he made his Ranji Trophy debut at the age of 18 in 2000, he was still working as a Ticket Collector with the Indian Railways at the Kharagpur Railway Stadium in West Bengal. Dhoni worked there between 2001- 2003 while also playing his cricket.

5.    MS Dhoni owns a team in the FIM Supersport World Championship. He created this team in 2012 and named it MSD R-N Racing Team India. It was later named, Mahi Racing Team India, with Telugu actor A Nagarjuna also investing in the team.

6.    MS Dhoni has a few other business interests. He had earlier started a merchandise business in partnership with actor Dino Morrea. In 2009, there were reports that he was starting a multi-crore business partnership with Harbhajan Singh, his India teammate, but that did not materialise.

7.    Here is a story of a Train Ticket Examiner(TTE).
India was playing on a day during the 2003 Cricket World cup co hosted by South Africa. There were bunch of supervisors watching the match and this parcticlar TTE comes in and asks for the score.

TTE: Sirji, India ka score kya hua hai?
         (Translation: Sir, what is india's score right now?)

Supervisor: Score jaan ke kya karloge? India ke liye world Cup jita ke laoge kya?
                    (Translation: what will you do after knowing the score? the world cup and get the cup back to India?)

And in the future that TTE was the one who won all the ICC tournaments for India and one of the best captains the cricketing world has produced.
That is M.S.Dhoni for you.

8.    Mahendra Singh Dhoni is one of the highest individual tax payer in India. He paid more than Rs 12 crore income tax in 2013.

9.    In 2012 -2013 Mahi was also the highest paid cricketer in whole world. Forbes magazine listed MS Dhoni as the richest cricketer in the whole world for the first time.
  

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sourav Ganguly?

I)  Sourav Ganguly's ton at Lord's Cricket ground was the highest score(131) by a batsman on debut    at the ground.

 

II)  Following Sachin's footsteps, Sourav donned the entrepreneur's hat and opened a three-storey  restaurant, Maharaja Sourav's - The Food Pavilion in Calcutta's posh locality Park Street. The restaurant was inaugurated by Sachin himself in 2004.

 

 

III)  Sourav Ganguly is the third cricketer in the world, along with Aravinda De  Silva and Mahela Jayawardene, to score a 100 and lead a team to the  final of a World Cup. He scored a century (114-ball 111*) against Kenya in 2003 Worldcup Semi-final. 

IV)  Sourav's parents gave him the nickname Maharaj when he was a kid. He  was later nicknamed The Prince of Calcutta by Geoffrey Boycott.

 

V)  Ganguly was born a right-hander. He writes, eats, and as we know, bowls  with his right-hand. He was a right-handed batsman, too, in his early  days. His brother Snehashish was, however, a left-hander, and Sourav  wanted to use his gear. Exactly why he did this is unknown, since the Ganguly's are one of the richest families of Calcutta, but the choice  made him the leading run-scorer among all left-handed Indian Test  batsmen.

IV) Sourav's parents gave him the nickname Maharaj when he was a kid. He  was later nicknamed The Prince of Calcutta by Geoffrey Boycott.

 

V)  Ganguly was born a right-hander. He writes, eats, and as we know, bowls  with his right-hand. He was a right-handed batsman, too, in his early  days. His brother Snehashish was, however, a left-hander, and Sourav  wanted to use his gear. Exactly why he did this is unknown, since the Ganguly's are one of the richest families of Calcutta, but the choice  made him the leading run-scorer among all left-handed Indian Test  batsmen.

 

VIII)  Only once had Ganguly opened batting in a Test, and it was in the same  Test where he had gone all the way in the first innings in 1997-98,  hitting Kumar Dharmasena out of Wankhede. With India having secured a  151-run lead, Sachin  promoted Ganguly (instead of Nayan Mongia) to open with Navjot Sidhu.  It did not go too well: he fell to Pramodya Wickramasinghe for a 12-ball 11.

 

IX)  Sourav Ganguly’s Love Story
 

The love story of Sourav Ganguly and Dona Roy would make perfect material for a Bollywood Movie.

Sourav Ganguly has lived a life of luxury as he comes from an affluent family. But this does not mean that life has been a ‘walk in the park’ for Dada. As much as his cricketing career has been a ‘tale to tell’, his personal life is also no less than a movie script. Dada is not a man to express his emotions in words, so when it came to the love of his life, he kept his words aside and went to action mode straightaway.

 

All of us know the old adage ‘Love Thy Neighbour’, but Sourav took it a bit too seriously when he fell head over heels in love with his next door neighbour, Dona. The two familial houses shared a common boundary wall.

Sourav and Dona grew up together and were best of friends. Like a true love struck teenage hero, Sourav would take a drive around Dona’s school with the hope of seeing her. But all was not rosy candy-floss stuff like a Karan Johar movie. The families drifted apart and became sour enemies. Like legendary Romeo and Juliet style, any kind of alliance between the two families was completely unacceptable. Even though the two families kept a distance, Sourav went to watch Dona perform Odissi recitals and Dona watched his matches. The cuteness of their story is surely going to warm every heart.

The couple saw to it that they kept their sweet secret under the wraps. Though Sourav’s family was adamant at not approving a non-Brahmin girl as their daughter-in-law, our Dada is Dada. After Sourav returned from his spectacular Test debut at Lords in 1996, they decided it was time to tie the knot. At that time he was the ‘toast of the town’ and his household was in a celebratory mood.
Sourav called up Moloy Banerjee , the highly respected Bengal cricketer, and confided in him. He later agreed and said, “Can’t say no to Maharaj.” On August 12, 1996, they were married by the registrar, in Banerjee’s living room. When the families got the news, all hell broke loose, but gradually went on to accept the decision of their children. A formal wedding was conducted on February 21st 1997. This is the date the couple celebrates as their wedding anniversary.

After almost 15 years of marriage they are still the best of friends and friendlier neighbours. This is the story of the Maharaj and his Dancing Queen. We all know about Dada’s mental strength and the way he transformed Indian cricket. Therefore this story might not have surprised many as knowing his strong head, in hindsight it was evident that this Dilwala was surely going to get his Dulhaniya, anyhow.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Mind-Blowing Facts About Cricket?

I) Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals. He has got these four man of the match awards within the 8 days period. (Sept 14 to Sept 21, 1997).

 

 

 II) Shahid Afridi has played 350 One-Day International matches, where he scored 7360 runs with     6 centuries and 35 half centuries, but he has not played 100 balls in an innings yet.(He has played 94 balls for his innings 124 (HS)).

 

 

III) David Warner is the only Australian cricketer in the last 100 years of cricket history, who has played his first international match without playing a single first class(domestic) match before that.

 

 

 

IV) First T20I six was hit Australian opener, whose name is Michael Clarke.

 

 

 

V) Ab de Villiers (Abraham de Villiers) was shortlisted for national hockey and football squads, Captain of SA junior Rugby, is still the holder of six SA school swimming records, the fastest 100m time in SA juniors, a member of SA Junior Davis Cup team, the National Badmintion U-19 champion, received a national medal from Mandela for a science project, has a golf handicap of scratch, can captain, can keep wicket, can bat, can bowl, brilliant fielder. In addition to this, he is a decent singer and his song albums have released in the past years.

 

 

 

VI) Stuart Clarke, Wasim Akram, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Shaun Pollock, Dale Steyn, Kapil Dev have one thing in common. They all have taken wickets of the first and last bowl of an Innings.

 

 

VII) People with the surname "Patel" have played international cricket for at least five countries – India, New Zealand, Kenya (as well as East Africa), Canada and England.

 

VIII) The Longest Test : The last match of England's tour of South Africa in 1939 was decided to be timeless. It went on for 10 days (3rd March to 14th March with 2 rest days). And sadly even after going on for 10 days, it had to be declared a draw. England needed just 42 runs with 5 wickets in hand at tea. But rain ruined the remaining of the day. England team had to catch their train on 15th so that they could take the ship to England on 17th. So match was declared a draw.

 

IX) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (writer Sherlock Holmes) was also a pretty decent cricketer. He played 10 first class matches for the Marleybone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1899 and 1907.

 

 

 

X) Jim Laker took 10 wicket haul in an innings, twice. 10-53 and 10-88, both against Australia. The later one was taken while he was playing for Surrey in a first class match hence, less known.