Cricketing legend MS Dhoni is celebrating his 41st birthday today on July 7, 2022.
The Jharkhand native started his international cricket career with a duck against Bangladesh in an ODI in 2004. He has scored over 4,800 runs in 90 Tests and over 10,700 runs in 350 ODIs. He has a total of 16 centuries to his name in his international career and averages over 50 in ODI cricket. Add over 1,600 runs in 98 T20I matches and 829 dismissals behind the stumps, and you have the perfect cricketer any team wants.
Such stats show every cricket fan why MS Dhoni is considered to be one of the greatest cricketers ever to play the game. To top it all, he remains the only captain in the cricket world to win all three ICC events in the T20 World Cup, the Champions Trophy, and the World Cup, and multiple series wins in bilateral and tri-series tournaments.
WATCH - MS Dhoni celebrates his 41st birthday in London; Rishabh Pant also joins the celebrations
He called time on his illustrious career on August 15, 2020, shocking many of his fans and peers. He continues to regale the audience with his captaincy, batting, and keeping skills in the Indian Premier League (IPL), where he plays for Chennai Super Kings.
He has led the CSK franchise to four IPL titles and two Champions League titles and will turn out for the yellow army in IPL 2023 as well.
Here are some tweets from the cricket fraternity wishing the great man on his birthday: