With a single of Liam Plunkett in the 43rd over, Dhoni reached the landmark. (Source: Reuters)
MS Dhoni became only the fourth Indian player to join the 10,000 club in ODI cricket. Dhoni scaled the summit of 10,000 ODI runs during the second ODI against England at Lord’s. With a single of Liam Plunkett in the 43rd over, Dhoni reached the landmark. For a batsman who has played down the order for most of his life, reaching 10k runs is simply astounding. He is now the 4th Indian after Tendulkar, Ganguly, and Dravid remarkable achievement indeed. In the list of oldest players to reach 10K ODI runs- Dhoni is at number three (37 yrs and 7 days) after Tillikaratne Dilshan (38yrs and 285 days), Brian Lara (37 yrs 228 days).
Dhoni, who is now the 12th international player to achieve the milestone, took 320 matches and 273 innings to finally score his 10,000th run. In the list of players who have taken the fewest innings to 10k ODI runs Dhoni is fifth on the list behind-
Sachin Tendulkar (259), Sourav Ganguly (263), Ricky Ponting (266) and Jacques Kallis (272)