M S Dhoni

4. M S Dhoni

Next on Popular Cricketers, One of the Best Wicket-Keepr Batsmen of all time. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the most famous and successful captain of the Indian national cricket team in all three forms of the game and the Chennai Super Kings cricket team. He led the Indian team to the number one position in ICC rankings in Test cricket for the first time. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and 2011 ICC ODI Cricket Worldcup.Dhoni is the first Indian player who achieve the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2 Consictive Years, 2008 and 2009. He recived many more awards like the ‘Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna’ award and the Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour in 2009. The TIME magazine added him in its “Time 100″ list of 100 most influential people of 2011. SportsPro has rated MS Dhoni as the 16th most remarkable athlete in the world.