{"id":1188,"date":"2020-08-15T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=34076"},"modified":"2020-08-15T22:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T17:20:26","slug":"ms-dhoni-retirement-a-glance-at-lieutenant-colonel-mahendra-singh-dhonis-journey-with-indian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ms-dhoni-retirement-a-glance-at-lieutenant-colonel-mahendra-singh-dhonis-journey-with-indian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni retirement: A glance at Lieutenant colonel Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s journey with Indian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mahendra Singh Dhoni, most celebrated Indian cricketer, who served as captain for the Indian national team for limited overs format from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. He is a renowned cricketer as a great game finisher, helicopter shot, and wicketkeeper. He is the only Indian captain to bring all ICC trophies home. But, he also holds great respect and love towards the Indian Army. Here are a few tales of caption cool\u2019s army connect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Lieutenant colonel<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_211824_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2011, MS Dhoni was awarded the honorary rank of a lieutenant colonel. He was piped-in by Gen. Singh at South Block. The honor was received by him along with Abhinav Bindra and Deepak Rao.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Paratrooper<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2015, MSD became a qualified paratrooper after having completed five parachute training jumps from Indian Army aircraft in the Agra training camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Parachute regiment training<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dhoni requested to train with a territory army battalion of the parachute regiment for two months. He joined his duty on July 31<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and stayed till August 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jammu and Kashmir<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_211743_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dhoni served in the Indian army as part of Victor Force, in Kashmir. He undertook the duties of patrolling, guard, and post duty for 15 days. He stayed with troops after duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Like the other troopers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_211910_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dhoni interacted with armed forces people, played cricket and volleyball with Territorial Army battalion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The achiever\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/08\/20200815_211841_0000-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MS Dhoni, a legendary cricket and a brand ambassador of the Indian army was conferred with Padma Bhushan award, most prestigious civilian honor, in 2018. He is a man who has made India proud of all his achievements both in cricket and army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahendra Singh Dhoni, most celebrated Indian cricketer, who served as captain for the Indian national team for limited overs format\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[244,135],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-indian-army","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}