Factbox on Mahendra Singh Dhoni who quit test cricket on Tuesday.
* Born: July 7, 1981 in Ranchi.
* Nickname: Mahi.
* Made his test debut against Sri Lanka in 2005, scoring 30 in the rain-hit match in Chennai.
* He went on to play 90 tests for India, amassing 4,876 runs at a 38-plus average, hitting six centuries and 33 fifties. He also took 256 catches and contributed 38 stumpings.
* Dhoni's highest test score of 224 came against Australia in February 2013.
* The wicketkeeper-batsman made his ODI debut against Bangladesh in late 2004 and was run out for a first ball duck in the Chittagong match.
* Dhoni has played 250 ODIs, scoring 8,192 runs, averaging 52.85 with a strike rate in the vicinity of 90. He has hit nine centuries in this format to go with 56 fifties.
* He has also played 50 Twenty20 Internationals, scoring 849 runs, averaging nearly 34 with a 116 strike rate.
* Under his captaincy, India won the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in 2007, the 50-over World Cup in 2011 and remained the number one test team for 18 months from December 2009.
* He received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sports honour, in 2007.
* Known for his penchant to seal a victory with a six, Dhoni's trademark "helicopter" shot has amused fans who have also hailed his unflappable temperament.
* India's string of away test defeats remains a blot on his captaincy records, though, and the emergence of Virat Kohli was seen as an alternative.
* He surpassed retired great Sachin Tendulkar as the highest-earning Indian sportsman but remains a fiercely private person.