Indian cricket team captain fulfilled his dream while being away from cricket. The helicopter shot expert had made his first para jump from an Indian Air Force aircraft from a height of 1250 feet on Wednesday from Agra airbase. This must have been one of the most relishing moments of the Indian captain being on a break from his cricketing career.

Lt Col MS Dhoni Parajumps from AN-32

Lieutenant Colonel, MS Dhoni  is being trained by the officials of the Indian Armed Forces and is undergoing training by the Paratroopers Training School in Agra who had successfully executed is maiden jump at 7 am on Wednesday. To make his debut para jump MS Dhoni a successful and remarkable one has jumped off from an AN-32 aircraft from a height of 1250 feet.

It was voyage of 70 seconds for Lt. Col. Dhoni to land on to the ground after leaping from the AN-32 aircraft from a height of 1250 feet’s. Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is undergoing training with the Air Force skydiving team at Paratroopers Training School in Agra has to attend few more theory classes for the next five days, then undergo stringent tests and ground training rituals, before para-jumping from the Malpura base. He has to complete five jumps at the 50 Independent Para Brigade base.

Mahender Singh Dhoni does para jumping in Agra pic.twitter.com/hSxqKmIetU

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Defence sources said that World Cup-winning MS Dhoni has been under training since August 6, 2015 who has yet to complete four more jumps from 10,000 feet, including one at night so as to be a qualified parajumper. MS Dhoni retired from International test cricket after the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne last year although he is playing for the nation and leading the Indian cricket team for ODIs and T20s.

MS Dhon’s Next Business After Cricket Would be in Armed Forces

Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra and MS Dhoni have been conferred with the honorary Lieutenant Colonel rank in September 2011. Other than MS Dhoni, Indian cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar alos has an honorary Group Captain in the IAF. India’s cherishing cricket captain Kapil Dev also has an honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army.

After getting the honorary Lieutenant Colonel from the then president of India Smt. Pratibha Devi Singh Patil MS Dhoni said “Why I got here is because of cricket. I would like to serve actively in the Army only after cricket. I don’t want my cricket to suffer because that is something I am good at. Once my cricket career is over, I would definitely like to serve in the Army.”

Dhoni’s instructor at the Army Air Transport School said that the cricketer was being treated as a regular military officer and given exactly the same training as was imparted to any officer undergoing paratrooper training. Defence sources claimed Indian cricket team captain has already entered the army shooting range and undergone complete arms training and hopes to serve the country as a military officer, whenever required to do so by the army. Stay tuned with us for more trending updates of sports pressing Ctrl+D so as to bookmark us in your web browser for easy navigation.