MS Dhoni announces retirement from international cricket

 Formar Indian captain and wicket-keeper MS Dhoni announces   retirement from international cricket.

  

Former Two-time World Cup winnig India captain and Wicket-keeper batsman, Mahendra Singh Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday (August 15) via an Instagram post. "Thanks tons for ur love and support throughout.from 1929 hrs consider me as Retired (sic)", read his post of the formal announcement.

The Chennai Super Kings captain, though, is predicted to feature within the upcoming IPL 2020 within the United Arab Emirates and was spotted earlier today arriving in Chennai for the team's brief training camp before they fly bent the middle-east.

MS Dhoni had earlier quit Test cricket in 2014 after the Melbourne Test on the tour of Australia and had handed over ODI and T20I captaincy to Virat Kohli in January 2017.

In nearly 16 years at the very best level, Dhoni led India through its most successful era and has the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup , and therefore the 2013 Champions Trophy in his cabinet.

Dhoni's last ODI was his 350th for India, wherein he finished with a fighting 72-ball 50 against New Zealand at the 2019 World Cup which proved insufficient within the end. Dhoni, who finished with 10,773 runs at a mean of fifty .57 in ODIs, is that the fifth Indian to surpass the 10k-run mark within the 50-over format. The wicketkeeper-batsman also has 229 ODI sixes - the foremost for an Indian batsman.

Dhoni took over as India's ODI captain from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and has won 55 percent of the 200 games he captained the national side (110 wins, 74 defeats, 5 tied, 11 NR). His 200th ODI captaincy assignment came within the Asia Cup 2018 encounter against Afghanistan after Rohit Sharma - the designated skipper for that tournament - was rested for the game , which eventually led to a tie.

In T20Is, MS Dhoni played two shy of a 100 games, scoring over 1617 runs at a strike rate of 126.13. More importantly, he led India to glory within the inaugural World T20 in 2007. He features a 58.33 win percentage during this format, with 42 victories in 72 games as captain.

Besides being India's most successful captain within the limited-overs format, Dhoni also redefined wicket keeping skills and earned the reputation of being  one among the best stumpers within in the world the previous couple of years. With 829 dismissals across the three formats in international cricket (634 catches, 195 stumpings), Dhoni finishes third on the list of wicketkeepers with most dismissals, only behind Mark Boucher (998) and Adam Gilchrist (905).