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MS Dhoni is arguably the greatest ever captain to have played for India over the years. As he turns 36, the entire country celebrates his birthday and pays tribute to the man who has led India to a lot of success ever since taking over as captain in 2007.
He is the only captain to have led his country to the three major ICC tournaments – ICC World T20, ICC World Cup, and ICC Champions Trophy.
Over the years, he has broken numerous records while playing for the Men in Blue. He holds the record for the most number of stumpings to his name.
Apart from that, he has quite a few interesting and unique records to his name. Let’s take a look at 5 such records.
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Most runs without scoring a half-century in T20Is
MS Dhoni has been around in the Indian T20 set up right from the very beginning. He led a young and inexperienced Indian side in the inaugural World T20 held in South Africa in 2007 which they ended up winning.
The Indian side has achieved a lot of success under Dhoni and a lot of batsmen have flourished in the format. Dhoni himself has achieved quite a lot of success playing his role as the finisher of the side for a long time now.
However, he holds a unique record to his name of scoring the most number of runs without scoring a half century.
He scored over 1000 runs without scoring a fifty in a single innings until he finally broke the jinx against England earlier this year in the 3rd and final T20I of the 3 match series in Bengaluru where he scored 56 in 36 balls.
First Indian to reach 200 sixes
The Indian cricket team have had a lot of aggressive batsmen over the years. Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag were known for decimating the opposition bowlers on a number of occasions and hitting a lot of sixes in the process.
However, Dhoni, who made his debut much after them managed to become the first Indian to hit 200 sixes.
He was lethal during the beginning of his career as he decimated opposition bowlers with ease and cleared the ropes without much hesitation.
He has also scored the most number of sixes as captain of a side with England’s Eoin Morgan not behind by too much.
Most no. of centuries batting at no. 7
Ever since his debut in 2004, Dhoni has mesmerised us with his skills with the bat. He scored his first couple of centuries batting at no. 3 in the batting line-up against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. However, he moved down to no. 7 as a role of a finisher and achieved a lot of success there as well.
To this date, he has scored two centuries batting at no. 7 in the line-up against Pakistan and Africa XI both at Chepauk in Chennai.
Despite scoring only two centuries batting lower down the order, he holds the record of scoring the most number of centuries batting at that position. However, there are few batsmen such as Moeen Ali who could go on to break their record in the future.
Most successful test captain and most number of losses incurred
Arguably one of the greatest ever limited-overs captain to have played the game, Dhoni holds a mixed record while captaining the side in Tests. He led the side to a Test mace in 2009 after a successful year which culminated with defeating Sri Lanka.
His success in home Tests was superb and he was statistically the best Test captain for India. However, his success overseas was extremely poor. Despite being the most successful Test captain of India, he holds the record of the most losses incurred outside India.
India got whitewashed by both England and Australia after which Dhoni decided to step down as the Test captain and handed the reigns over to Virat Kohli.
Wicket-keeper to have bowled the most number of times
As we all know, Dhoni fancies his hand with the bowl at times when the side has almost won the match or when there is nothing to lose, or when he just feels like bowling.
Indian fans would have fond memories of Dhoni taking his first international wicket against West Indies when he dismissed Travis Dowlin in 2009.
He also bowled during India’s tour to England in 2011 and got the prized wicket of Kevin Pietersen only to have it turned down after KP reviewed the decision.
Dhoni has bowled 9 times in total in his career followed by William Storer of England who has bowled only four times.
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