India's 2011 World Cup squad members: Where are they now?

6. MS Dhoni (C)

In the blockbuster title win of the Men in Blue in 2011, MS Dhoni’s leadership was one of the major reasons. Under his captaincy, India succeeded in beating quality teams such as Australia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka comfortably in the knockout games and accomplished their task of holding the illustrious trophy. 

In the crisis situation in the final match against Sri Lanka, the skipper displayed courage as he came to bat in the number four position. Managing the situation perfectly, he played a swift knock of 91 runs off 79 deliveries to take the team home. Following his success in the tournament, Dhoni got a lot of appreciation from fans and former cricketers as well.

In 2017, he passed the captaincy baton to Virat Kohli after leading the team in white-ball cricket for ten years. On the occasion of the 73rd Independence Day in 2020, he called time on his international career, as he retired from all forms of cricket. However, he is still active in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and has also won a title for his franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in 2021. Interestingly, when speculations seemed strong for him to play the last event of his cricket career in the form of the IPL 2023 edition, he gifted his fans both the IPL title with the Chennai Super Kings in a grand style along with the announcement that he will most likely come back to play in IPL 2024 as well. Currently, he is recovering from a Knee surgery.

Apart from cricket he also owns academies in Dubai and Singapore. Besides he also has an interest in agriculture and breeding high profile species of poultry in Ranchi. Besides, he has also landed in movie production whereby recently his production house under the leadership of his wife, Sakshi Dhoni, released a south film- Let's Get Married.