Top 5 "unlucky" moments of MS Dhoni

99 run out against England, Nagpur, 2012

MS Dhoni run out vs England: A century he deserved but he never got

It was perhaps MS Dhoni’s best Test knock before he hit his double hundred against the Australians. It was knock of character as his batting in Tests was severely criticised by the media and the experts. To top it off, England were in the ascendancy on Indian soil and Dhoni’s critics were at their vocal best.

India were completely outclassed in the series by England and Dhoni’s men surrender without a fight until the 3rd day of the 4th Test at Nagpur. It was a day of great importance in Indian cricket as India’s two most fluent stroke players knuckled down and took the non glamorous way against a very potent English attack.

Virat Kohli’s Test career was under scrutiny and MS Dhoni’s existence in the Test team had serious question marks hanging over it. Dhoni and Kohli got together and fought against Anderson and company to add 198-runs to give India a semblance of chance.

Kohli went onto to score a hundred but MS Dhoni, who played the grittiest knock of his life, was dismissed for 99. At 295/6, James Anderson came round the wicket to Dhoni. The Indian captain pushed the ball to mid off and took off for a single. Alistair Cook picked it up with one hand, threw in the same motion and broke the stumps at the non-striker’s end.

MS Dhoni is super quick between the wickets and it’s not often that he falls short of the crease, but that day, he did and only by millimeters. He batted brilliantly that day and deserved a hundred but as they say, on that afternoon in Nagpur, the luckiest man in India just ran out of luck!