MS Dhoni is one of the very successful cricketers in international cricket history. The wicket-keeper batsman is a great batsman with mastery level finishing skills, a smart wicket-keeper, a powerful leader with calm and cool brain etc. Under his captaincy, India achieved many great successes in international cricket, including winning ICC World T20 2007, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and ICC Champions Trophy 2013.
MS Dhoni has played 90 Tests, 350 ODIs and 98 T20Is. During his long international career, while he himself created many histories, he was also a part to experience many histories for his team. Today, we’ll take a look at the five great innings when MS Dhoni was on the other end.
Here we are talking about the top four individual histories by the Indian batsmen when MS Dhoni was in the non-striker end.
Sachin Tendulkar’s 50th Test century
Apart from becoming the only cricketer to hit 100 international centuries, Sachin Tendulkar is also the only cricketer to hit at least 50 Test centuries as the right-handed batsman hit 51 centuries in his Test career. Tendulkar hit this 50th Test century in December 2010 during the Cape Town Test.
During the third innings of that Test, Tendulkar scored his 50th Test century. When Tendulkar achieved that landmark, captain Dhoni was playing in the other side on 84 runs. Tendulkar remained not out on 111 runs while Dhoni was dismissed on 90 runs.