MS Dhoni is one of the most wanted players in the Indian team, on whom the responsibility of digging India out from a hole, falls upon.

MS Dhoni has done that many times in both Tests and ODIs, with the most famous example being that of the Lord’s Test against England in 2007, where MS Dhoni batted with the tail in order to delay the end of Indian innings until bad light helped him draw the Test, with England requiring just 1 wicket to win.

In ODIs, however, his innings against Australia in Chandigarh in 2013 ODI series ranks high amongst his best ODI centuries.

India had batted first and slumped to 76/4 and then 148/5 in 30 overs. Virat Kohli had played his part with a well composed 68 as Rohit, Dhawan, Raina and Yuvraj Singh fell cheaply. In walked MS Dhoni and at the fall of Kohli’s wicket, decided to take on the Australian bowling.

He found able partners in R Ashwin and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who keep feeding Dhoni the strike and Dhoni kept smacking Australian bowlers to all parts of the PCA stadium.

Dhoni smoked 139* off 121 balls with 12 fours and 5 sixes, as India put up a competitive 303/9 on the board.

Australia batting reached the target after some difficulty as Brad Haddin (24* off 16) and James Faulkner (64* off 29 balls) took Ishant Sharma to the cleaners in the death overs and won an exciting contest by 4 wickets.

Watch Dhoni’s heroic innings here: