Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Sarabjot Singh, the 22-year-old Olympic bronze medallist in shooting, recently turned down a prestigious government job offered in recognition of his achievements at the Paris Olympics. Despite the honor, Singh chose to remain focused on his athletic career. Here’s a look at other Indian sports stars who have transitioned from their athletic achievements to prominent government roles:

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) lifted their fifth Indian Premier League title at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad with a five-wicket win over Gujarat Titans (GT) on May 29. Take a look at some of the best moments from the final.

The Chennai Super Kings have won the Indian Premier League for a record-equaling fifth time with a last-ball, five-wicket victory over the defending champion Gujarat Titans.

Four-time champions Chennai host table-toppers Gujarat in the first play-off of this season's IPL, with the winner going into final on May 28. The loser goes into another playoff match.

Chennai Super Kings hit 235-4 in the highest score so far this season by any team in the Indian Premier League as it crushed Kolkata Knight Riders by 49 runs on April 23.

Pacer Sandeep Sharma held his nerve and defended 20 off the last six balls despite bowling two wides and conceding two sixes at the start of the final over. He then gathered himself afresh and conceded only three runs off the last three balls as Rajasthan took home the two points.

MS Dhoni lead Chennai Super Kings to their maiden Indian Premier League title.

The Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction is scheduled to take place on February 12 and 13. With two new teams, Lucknow and Ahmedabad joining the Indian Premier League 2022, the upcoming season will be a 10-team tournament. The eight existing IPL franchises had listed out their retained players ahead of the much-awaited auction. The deadline for the franchises to retain their players for IPL 2022 season closed on November 30, 2021. The eight franchises were eligible to retain up to 4 players with a maximum of 3 Indians, 2 overseas and 2 uncapped Indian players. Let’s take a look at the highest-earning retained player from each existing franchises for IPL 2022.

From Amul and Google India to Zomato, several brands wished the former Indian skipper best of luck for the ‘next innings’.

Former Indian World Cup winning captain Dhoni took to social media to announce his retirement from international cricket on August 15.

Dhoni played the most international matches as captain, and with more than 800 dismissals in international cricket, he is the third in the list of wicketkeepers with the most dismissals

In 2007 Dhoni was awarded with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, in 2008 and 2009 won ICC ODI Player of the year (the first player to win the award twice), Padma Shri in 2009 and in 2018 President Ram Nath Kovind honoured him with Padma Bhushan.