MS Dhoni Net Worth: Famous Cricketer in the World MS Dhoni, Know his biography & earnings

The greatest cricket player of all time, commonly known as MS Dhoni has a huge net worth of around $170 million. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper.

What are the earnings of MS Dhoni? What are his sources of income? Know about his net worth here:

MS Dhoni started his career back in 1999. He started playing domestic cricket and in 2004, he was selected in the Indian National Cricket Team.

The crowd outside Dhoni's house in his hometown Ranchi.

Dhoni has not only collected the fortune of $170 million from cricket career but several endorsement deals and commercials have also added to his bag of fortune.

Here are the figures that Dhoni earned as a salary/winnings and endorsements:

Winning and Salary:

2009= $2 million

2012= $3.5 million

2013= $3.5 million

2014= $4 million

2015= $4 million

Endorsement earnings:

2009= $8 million

2012= $23 million

2013= $28 million

2014= $26 million

2015= $27 million

Adding to his net worth, Dhoni is the co-owner of a hockey club, Ranchi Rays. He also co-owns a football club, Chennaiyin FC along with Abhisekh Bachchan and Vita Dani.

Moreover, Dhoni is the co-owner of Mahi Racing Team India. He partnered with Akkineni Nagarjuna. He also launched a brand, SEVEN in 2016.

How did Dhoni start his professional career? Let's know:

Dhoni started playing junior cricket in Bihar from 1999 to 2003. He was one of the few players whom people kept on staring. He used to play cricket shots since day 1.

From 2001 to 2003, Dhoni worked as a Travelling Ticket Examiner at Kharagpur railway station. But his life between TTE and cricketer was struggling one so he left his work as TTE and focused on cricket.

Know about Dhoni's Later Career Here: Indian Captaincy, Legendary Career, and CSK:

In 2004, Dhoni has selected as the member of India A squad. He debuted in the ODI against Bangladesh on December 23, 2014. He didn't have a great start, however, continuous devotion pays off.

A year later in 2005, Dhoni debuted in a Test match also. He played his first match against Sri Lanka on December 2, 2005. Again a year later on December 1, 2006, Dhoni made his T20 debut against South Africa.

Mahi aka Dhoni was selected as the captain of the Indian national team in 2007. He captained the national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.

Dhoni's last Test match was against Australia on December 26, 2014. He has been playing other formats, however, Dhoni will be playing his last ODI world cup in 2019.

About his legendary performance, Dhoni is the captain of an Indian Premier League team, Chennai Super Kings from 2008. He has sensational records in all cricketing formats.

Some of the Major Honors and Awards Received by MS Dhoni:

• MTV Youth Icon of the Year(2006)

• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award(2007)

• ICC ODI Player of the Year(2008, 2009)

• Castrol Indian Cricketer of the Year(2011)

• Honorary doctorate degree from De Montfort University(2011)

• Padma Shri Award(2013)

• Padma Bhushan Award(2018), and many more.

Where and when was MS Dhoni born? Know about his childhood here:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni was born on July 7, 1981, in Ranchi, Bihar, India. He was the son of Pan Singh.  And he has a sister and brother also.

Dhoni went to study at DAV Jawahar Vidya Mandir. Prior to his cricket career, Dhoni was into football. He was selected by the sport's teacher to play as a wicket-keeper.

Know about MS Dhoni's Relationship status here:

Mahi is a married man.

He married Sakshi Singh Rawat in 2010. They have a daughter born in 2015.

Does Dhoni love to use social media? Let's check his accounts:

Mahi the Captain Cool has gathered around 7.42M followers on Twitter and he has tweeted only 471 times till the date.

On Instagram, he has got around 13.6M followers and he has posted 99 times over there so far.