MS Dhoni Announces Seclusion From International Cricket

Previous India skipper and double cross World Cup victor, Mahendra Singh Dhoni declared his retirement from global cricket on Saturday (August 15) in a mysterious message posted on Instagram. "Thanks for ur love and backing throughout from 1929 hrs think about me as Retired (sic)", read his post of the proper declaration.

Dhoni, who turned 39 in July, quit Test cricket in 2014 and has not played a compelled overs facilitate for India since taking a break after the gathering's semi-last exit at the 50-overs World Cup in July a year back.

As chief, Dhoni drove India to the debut Twenty20 World Cup title in 2007 and he rehashed the accomplishment at the 50-overs World Cup on home soil in 2011.

He additionally skippers the Chennai Super Kings in the establishment based T20 Indian Premier League yet didn't indicate in the event that he has resigned from all cricket.

The Chennai Super Kings skipper, however, is relied upon to highlight in the up and coming IPL 2020 in the UAE and was spotted before today showing up in Chennai for the group's concise instructional course before they fly out to the center east.

Dhoni had before halted Test cricket in 2014 after the Melbourne Test on the visit through Australia and had given over ODI and T20I captaincy to Virat Kohli in January 2017.

In almost 16 years at the most elevated level, Dhoni drove India through its best period and has the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup, and the 2013 Champions Trophy in his bureau.

Dhoni's last ODI was his 350th for India, wherein he got done with a battling 72-ball 50 against New Zealand at the 2019 World Cup which demonstrated lacking at long last. Dhoni, who got done with 10,773 runs at a normal of 50.57 in ODIs, is the fifth Indian to outperform the 10k-run mark in the 50-over configuration. The wicketkeeper-batsman moreover has 229 ODI sixes - the most for an Indian batsman.

Dhoni took over as India's ODI commander from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and has won 55 percent of the 200 games he captained the national side (110 successes, 74 annihilations, 5 tied, 11 NR). His 200th ODI captaincy task came in the Asia Cup 2018 experience against Afghanistan after Rohit Sharma - the assigned captain for that competition - was refreshed for the game, which in the end finished in a tie.

In T20Is, Dhoni played two shy of a 100 games, scoring in more than 1617 runs at a strike pace of 126.13. All the more significantly, he drove India to greatness in the debut World T20 in 2007. He has a 58.33 success rate in this configuration, with 42 triumphs in 72 games as commander.

Other than being India's best commander in the restricted overs position, Dhoni likewise re-imagined wicketkeeping abilities and earned the notoriety of being perhaps the best stumper on the planet over the most recent couple of years. With 829 excusals over the three configurations in universal cricket (634 gets, 195 stumpings), Dhoni completes third on the rundown of wicketkeepers with most excusals, just behind Mark Boucher (998) and Adam Gilchrist (905).