MS Dhoni is celebrating his 42nd birthday and his fans can’t keep calm at all. Social media has been buzzing since midnight as people from different corners of the country and the world are wishing the legendary wicketkeeper-batter on different platforms.
There unique were ways of fans who were celebrating his birthday, but the best of the celebrations came from his die-hard fans in Nandigama in Andhra Pradesh.
MS Dhoni’s fans did the unthinkable and erected a 77-foot cutout of the cricketer in the Chennai Super Kings training kit in celebrations of his birthday. Usually, such demonstration of love is reserved for movie stars in the Southern India, but MS Dhoni with his association with the CSK, has won the hearts of entire community there and hence the reason, he’s called ‘Thala’.
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Videos and images have been surfacing on social media in which Dhoni's cut-out could be seen standing tall in Andhra Pradesh's Nandigama. Fans were seen offering milk on the cut-out to celebrate Dhoni's birthday.
MS Dhoni had an astonishing career for India from 2004-2020, when he announced his retirement on August 15. He remains the only captain in the world to win all three white-ball ICC trophies in the T20 World Cup 2007, the ODI World Cup 2011 and the Champions Trophy 2013.
He also played 90 Tests, 350 ODIs and 98 T20Is for India, amassing 4,876 runs, 10,773 runs and 1,617 runs respectively.