Mahendra Singh Dhoni or M. S. Dhoni is one of the greatest captains in the cricket history. But is he the best Indian Captain? We’ll just go through his career statistics so far and try to find the answer to the previously asked question.
1. Individual Records –
In ODIs, his highest score of 183 is also the highest score by any wicketkeeper in the world cricket. In tests, his highest score of 224 is also the highest score by an Indian captain. Dhoni is the only captain in the ODIs to score a century while batting at number 7. There are many more records and telling those will take the whole day if I start right now.
2. Captaincy Records –
He is the only Indian captain after Kapil Dev to win the ICC Cricket World Cup. He is the only Indian captain to win the T20 World Cup. He won the Champions Trophy also in 2013. He is the only Indian captain to win this three major ICC trophies. He won the Asia Cup in 2010. He took India to the number 1 spot in tests. Let’s have a look at the below statistics –
Odi
Captain Period Matches Win Lost Tied NR W%
Test
Captain Period Match Win Lost Draw W% L%
3. Captain Cool –
He is tagged as captain cool from the beginning as his head always remains icy-cool in spite of what the situation is. His icy-cool head helps him to take decisions which changes the whole scenario in the ground.
4. Different Thinking –
He thinks different than any other captain in the world. Need an example? Ok, here it is – one captain simply doesn’t send Joginder Sharma to bowl the final over in the final match in the T20 Wrold Cup 2007 when you have Harbhajan Singh in your side. As I said he thinks different and the previous thing is just an example of that.
5. Stylish –
Don’t kid me by saying that you didn’t ever try out the “helicopter shot.” And at least once in our life we wanted the “long haircut of Dhoni.” Before Virat, he was the style icon for most of the cricket fans.
6. Dhoni Dhamaka –
Nowadays he often comes out to bat at No.7 but whenever the team needs him, he changes his batting position and comes to bat early at No.4 or No.5 but he just creates a storm regardless of the batting position. Undoubtedly, he is the best-finisher in the world in Odis.
7. CSK Under His Captaincy –
His captaincy took Chennai Super Kings to a new high. CSK’s performance is undoubtedly the best among all teams in IPL including all the seventh seasons till now. Under his captaincy, CSK won the IPL in 2010 and 2011 and they also won the Champions League Twenty20 in 2010 and 2014.