Top 5 Indian batsmen with the most ODI runs this decade (2010-2019)

Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli

#3 MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni.
MS Dhoni.

The legendary MS Dhoni has featured in 196 matches for India in this decade and scored 5640 runs at an excellent average of 50.35. Dhoni has also notched up four hundreds and 39 fifties during this decade.

The most important knock played by Dhoni in this decade was the magical 91* he conjured in the final of the 2011 World Cup. Coming in to bat at the fall of Kohli’s wicket, Dhoni scored a whirlwind 91*, led from the front and enabled India to lift the trophy.

Dhoni’s other memorable knocks this decade include a magnificent 113* against Pakistan in a losing cause. Coming in to bat with India tottering at 27/5, Dhoni’s hundred propelled the side to a total of 227.

His final century of this decade came in the year 2017 against England. Dhoni scored 134 and took India to a huge total of 381 runs, enabling the hosts to edge past England by 15 runs.

His last ODI this decade was on 10 July 2019, in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup. Even though he scored a half-century, India went down to New Zealand by 18 runs.

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