Dhoni's 37th birthday: 37 records held by MSD in his career

26. Fastest Century by an Indian Wicket-keeper in test cricket

Dhoni’s 93-ball ton against Pakistan at Faisalabad is the fastest century scored by an Indian Wicket-keeper in test cricket.

27. Only player to lead a team in Six editions of WT20

MS Dhoni led India in six editions of WT20. Paul Collingwood and Darren Sammy are the joint second rank holders in this list.

28. He is the fastest player to reach no. 1 position in ICC ODI rankings.

MS Dhoni reached the no. 1 spot in 42 innings. This is still a world record.

29. Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India defeated every previous world cup winning team in 2011 World Cup

India won the WC11 under Dhoni’s captaincy and defeated many world cup winning nations like Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc.

30. MS Dhoni was the most expensive player of the Inaugural IPL season

Dhoni was the most expensive player of IPL 2008 as he was bought by the franchise CSK for an amount of 1.5 million dollars.

31. He has the second-best Average and has scored second highest no. of runs as a captain in ODIs

Dhoni has scored 6633 runs as a captain. Ricky Ponting is the only man who is ahead of Dhoni in this list. As a captain, Dhoni’s average is 53.92. AB De Villiers is the only man to have a better average than him. (Captains who have scored at least 1000 runs)