Mahendra Singh Dhoni has announced his retirement from international cricket.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh announced his retirement from cricket but his achievements will never go down in history. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has many memorable achievements.
Dhoni is the only captain to have won all the 3 ICC titles, including the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2011 ODI World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy.
Dhoni, who captained the Indian team, has won 4 finals with 6 different nations. He has been a successful captain in the finals of the one-day tournament against many nations. Dhoni has won a total of 110 ODIs.
MS Dhoni is the greatest wicket-keeper in cricket. Batsmen are afraid to move slightly away from the crease while he is keeping. Dhoni has made 123 stumpings in 350 ODI matches.MS Dhoni (in Tests, ODIs and Twenty20Is) together stumped 195 players at his lightning-fast pace.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni holds the record as the captain of highest international matches. MS Dhoni led the Indian team in 332 matches altogether (ODI, Test and Twenty20I).
In 332 international matches won 178 matches,lost 120 matches a, 6 matches were tied and 15 matches no result. Dhoni had a winning percentage (53.61) and a losing percentage (36.14). In this list is after Dhoni, Ricky Ponting captained 324 matches , which includes 2 ODI World Cups for Australia
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the only player who batted for his team and won the ODI World Cup by finishing with a six. MS Dhoni did this feat in the final match of the 2011 ODI World Cup.
Batting at number-5 in a pressure-packed atmosphere in the World Cup 2011, MS not only won the match for India by scoring 91 * off 79 balls but also achieved this world record by hitting a six in his style at the end. In this most memorable innings, MS Dhoni also hit eight fours and two long sixes.He played an important role in winning the second ODI World Cup for his country after a long wait of 28 years!
MS Dhoni has returned unbeaten in one Day Internationals so far 84 times. Dhoni was followed by Chaminda Vaas and Shaun Pollock (72). Dhoni has played a total of 350 ODIs for Team India and during scored 10773 runs. In his 297 ODI innings, Dhoni has returned 84 times as not out batsman.
MS Dhoni scored an unbeaten 183 in 2005, chasing the target against Sri Lanka.
This match between India and Sri Lanka was played on 31 October 2005 at Sawai Man Singh Cricket Stadium in Jaipur. In this match, MS Dhoni, batting at number 3, scored an unbeaten 183 runs, facing only 145 balls. As a result, India chased Sri Lanka's target score of 299 runs.
In this memorable innings, MS Dhoni also hit 15 fours and 10 sixes. The highest score made by any wicketkeeper-batsman in international cricket. Consequently, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is counted among the world's best wicket keepers and explosive batsmen.
It is not hidden from anyone that Mahendra Singh Dhoni loved batting with big sixes. When Dhoni started his career, MS Dhoni was known for batting in his own style in every ODI or Test format.
As a captain in international cricket, Mahendra Singh Dhoni also holds the world record for most sixes. MS Dhoni (Tests, ODIs and T20Is) together totaled 204 sixes as captain.
MS Dhoni captained 332 matches in all three formats of international level and scored 204 sixes at most. It is a really big record for Dhoni as a captain.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the only captain in the world who has done a clean sweep to Australia at his home. In 2016, the Indian team went to play a three-match T20 series against Australia.
In this series, the captain of Team India was Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the Indian team showed a brilliant game in every match and won the series by 3-0. With this, Dhoni became the first captain in the world to do a clean sweep against Australia in Australia and India became the first team to do this record!
It was a difficult task to beat the Australian team at their own soil, which ruled the world cricket for years. In 140 years of cricket history, no team or captain had made a clean sweep of Australia on their land.
Former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the only batsman in the world to score the most centuries in ODI cricket at number 7. MS hit two centuries innings as number 7 batsman.
Dhoni made his first century at number 7 against South Africa in the year 2007. In this match, Dhoni faced a brilliant innings of 139 runs, facing only 97 balls. In this innings, Dhoni hit 15 fours and five sixes.
Dhoni's second century as number 7 batsman was hit against Pakistan in the year 2012-13 at Chennai. In this match, Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored 113 runs facing 125 balls. In this innings, MS Dhoni also hit seven fours and three sixes.
The batsman coming to bat at No. 7 does not have much time in limited overs cricket, so this record made by Dhoni is really big.