{"id":659953,"date":"2023-12-23T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=659953"},"modified":"2023-12-23T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:19:41","slug":"after-retirement-from-cricket-more-time-for-military-service-mahendra-singh-dhoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/659953\/","title":{"rendered":"After retirement from cricket, more time for military service: Mahendra Singh Dhoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-659954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Soldier-Dhoni.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" \/>Mahendra Singh Dhoni has clarified that his plan is to spend more time with the Indian Army after retirement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mahendra Singh Dhoni is expected to play his last IPL season in 2024.\u00a0Last season, he led Chennai Super Kings to their fifth IPL title by defeating Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.\u00a0With this, Chennai Super Kings have reached Mumbai Indians&#8217; record of the most IPL achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dhoni holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the 106 Para TA Battalion of the Indian Territorial Army.\u00a0He was awarded this honorary rank by the Indian Army in 2011 for his services to the country as a cricketer.\u00a0He qualified as an O Paratrooper in 2015, after completing parachute training from the Indian Army Aircraft at Agra Training Camp.\u00a0In August 2019, he completed two weeks of service in the Territorial Army of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He made it clear that his biggest dream in his youth was never to become a cricketer but to become a soldier.\u00a0The continuation of that desire has now brought Dhoni to the decision to do military service after retirement<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahendra Singh Dhoni has clarified that his plan is to spend more time with the Indian Army after retirement. Mahendra Singh Dhoni is expected to play his last IPL season in 2024.\u00a0Last season, he led Chennai Super Kings to their fifth IPL title by defeating Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.\u00a0With this, Chennai Super Kings have reached Mumbai Indians&#8217; record of the most IPL achievements. Dhoni holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the 106 Para TA Battalion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":659954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659955,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659953\/revisions\/659955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}