MS Dhoni (Mahendra Singh Dhoni) celebrated his birthday on July 7th. He turns 34. Popularly known as MS Dhoni, is the most succesful skipper till date. Also people started calling him Mr. Cool/India's captain cool. (Image credits to Gareth Copley / Getty Images)
Dhoni was a super performer in ODI cricket and won the ICC World Twenty20 in 2007, ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 and Champions Trophy in 2013. He is the only cricket captain under whom the team won all the 3 major ICC Tournaments.
He is also the greatest ODI finisher of all time. Following their victory in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup league match against Zimbabwe in Auckland, Dhoni continued his penchant for getting India over the line
Since his entry in the India team, Indha has chased 141 times, with 82 victories. He averages while chasing stands at a staggering 109.19
Dhoni has dished out plenty of punishment to both Pakistan and Srilanka. Be it the 183 in Jaipur, the 2011 World Cup final or be it 15 runs in the final over to win the tri-series in West Indies, Dhoni has hurt Sri Lanka immensely. And for Pakistan, be it his first major ODI and Test Knock of 148 or his record seventh wicket stand of 125 with Ashwin after India were 29 for 5. What so ever, Dhoni's exit will give these two nations a sigh of relief.
His decision to give Joginder Sharma the final over in the final against Pakistan in the 2007 World Twenty20 is still talked about as a great peice of captaincy. Mixed responses have come from people. Some of them linked it to luck while others labelled it as spectacular.
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