The veteran India wicket-keeper batsman and two time World Cup winner Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket in an Instagram post on Saturday (August 15).
Thanks a lot for ur love and support throughout.from 1929 hrs consider me as Retired
Dhoni's post on Instagram states: "Thanks a lot for ur love and support throughout from 1929 hrs consider me as Retired"
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni announces retirement
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) August 15, 2020
Sources say Dhoni planned to retire after the T20 Cricket World Cup but his plan changed as the tournament was postponed.
On Friday, Dhoni and some of his Chennai Super Kings (CSK) colleagues arrived in Chennai on Friday for a short training camp ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) to be played in the in UAE from September 19 to November 10.
Dhoni will lead CSK in IPL 2020, making an eagerly-awaited return to competitive cricket after India lost to New Zealand in the 2019 World Cup semifinal.
MS Dhoni International cricket
ODIs
In 341 ODI matches that he has played so far, he has scored a total of 10,500 runs at an average of 50.72 and an impressive strike rate of 87.55. He has scored 10 hundreds and 70 fifties in ODIs, and his highest ODI score is 183, which is also the highest score by any wicketkeeper-batsman in the world. Dhoni is the first non-Australian and third overall to win 100 games as captain.
T20 Internationals
In 96 T20I matches, he has so far scored 1,548 runs at an average of 36.86 and a superb strike rate of 126.68. He has scored two fifties.
Test cricket
Dhoni played his first Test match against Sri Lanka at M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on December 2, 2005. He was named the captain of the Indian cricket team in the longest format of the game after the retirement of Anil Kumble in 2008. Under his captaincy, India became the number one side in Test cricket for the first time, in 2009. He was also the first Indian wicketkeeper batsman to complete 4,000 runs in Test cricket. Dhoni announced his retirement from Tests after the Boxing Day Test against Australia in 2014. However, one record that that Captain Cool holds but would not like to is that of the most number of overseas Test defeats (15) by an Indian captain.