124 vs Australia, Nagpur, 2009
At that time, Dhoni was the newly appointed captain of the team. In the seven-match ODI series, Australia had already won the first match and India needed to fight back in the second ODI.
Earlier, Australia won the toss and asked India to bat. Sachin Tendulkar lost his wicket early.
However, Virender Sehwag’s 40 and Gautam Gambhir’s 76 set the tone for India but India needed to set the fighting total. And the task was accomplished by the captain.
He scored 124 runs which became the first by any Indian captain against Australia. His century led India to set the target of 354 runs. Thus, the host comfortably registered the victory in Nagpur by 99 runs.