Rajiv Khel Ratna, Padhma Shri Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the man who needs no introduction.The demigod of millions of cricket fans and indeed a legend of modern cricket.
By numbers, the most successful captain of India and unarguably, the quickest behind the wickets.You know about his struggles, you know about his life story since you have watched MS – The Untold Story in theaters.
Today, it’s 36th birthday of Indian former captain.As a mark of appreciation here we are presenting 12 of the interesting facts about his career (nothing about his personal life).
* Dhoni is the only captain in the world to hold all ICC trophies.A T20 world cup, an ODI world cup and an ICC champions trophy, he has everything.
* He is the first and only Indian wicket keeper batsman to complete 4000+ test runs for India.
* Interestingly, Dhoni shares the highest ODI score of 183 with two other Indian captains of modern era Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli.
* Dhoni holds the record of hitting maximum number of sixers in international cricket for India.He has sent 322 deliveries out of boundary lines till date.
* MS Dhoni holds the 4th highest average among all batsmen who played minimum 40 ODI innings.Virat Kohli, Michael Bevan and ABD are ahead of Dhoni.
* Dhoni has only one single half century in his T20 international career.
* Dhoni played the all time highest number of international matches as captain.
He captained India for 322 matches across three formats.
* Dhoni stepped out of captaincy after leading the ODI team for exactly 199 matches.
He won 110 of that and lost 74.
* Dhoni’s annual incomes is estimated to he around $35M.
* Coming to IPL, Dhoni used to be the most expensive player of IPL in initial seasons.Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings to 6 IPL finals and won 2 of them.
He also has Champions League trophy to his name.Dhoni played the 2017 IPL as a player in Rising Pune Supergiant.
* Dhoni retired from Test cricket in 2014 and he has never scored an overseas century in the longer format of the game.
* He has couple of more unwanted records to his name.
He lost the most number of overseas test matches for India.He is the only Indian Captain to lose a series against Bangladesh.
