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TOP TIER Most successful captains in ODIs Mahi's Way 1 RICKY PONTING (AUS) 2 STEPHEN FLEMING (NZ) We look back at a decade of MS Dhoni as captain 2002-2012 1997-2007 Matches: 230 | Won:165 Matches: 218 | Won:98 of the Indian cricket team, from the time a long-haired Lost:51 | Tied:2 NR:12 Lost:106 | Tied:1 NR:13 buccaneer took over the one-day role in 2007, to a 76.14% 48.04% India senior statesman stepping aside from his role as the unexpectedly MS DHONI (INDIA) 3 wins the Captains skipper of Pune's IPL team early February this year CAPTAINCY RECORD 2007-2016 World T20 India for the first Matches: 199 | Won:110 time in the World :: Rahul Sachitanand Dhoni's record as an Indian captain Lost:74 | Tied:4 NR:11 T20 against Format Matches Won Lost Drawn Tied NRs Won% 59.57% Scotland; Captains the Match was Test 60 27 18 15 0 0 45.00 4 A RANATUNGA (SL) Indian ODI washed out ODIs 199 110 74 0 4 11 55.28 1988-1999 team for the first India win T20Is 72 41 28 0 1 2 56.94 Matches: 193 | Won:89 time; again a their first Lost:95 | Tied:1 NR:8 washout against Total 331 178 120 15 5 13 53.78 ODI series in 48.37% Australia Australia Sept 13 '07 Source: BCCI "You don't play ALAN BORDER (AUS) 5 Sept 24 '07 for the crowd, 1985-1994 Matches: 178 | Won:107 I am on you play for Lost:67 | Tied:1 NR:3 Sept 29 '07 "No, the country" 61.42% First national duty, skipper to — On moving on to a everything else younger side for ODIs lead a series can wait" after the Tests in Mar 04 '08 Australia 2011-12 win in New — Dhoni, after his Zealand daughter Ziva was BEYOND born weeks before the World Cup 2015 THE BOUNDARY Mar 11 '09 MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, starring Sushant Singh Rajput and directed by Neeraj Pandey was released in 2016 "We are told that Mumbai is a city which Become No. 1 Dec 05 '09 Mahi Racing India: In July ranked test team is always on the move. 2012, Dhoni, a massive and stay put for See, me and my boys gearhead, launched a 18 months have brought the entire team to compete city to a standstill in FIM Supersport World Championship He was the fi rst — Dhoni'stoday" reaction after crowds thronged to welcome May 11 '10 Indian batsman the team at a parade to complete following the World T20 win

Dhoni's Indian T20 10,000 SportsFit: Launched a series Brands endorsed: At team eliminated in June 24 '10 runs as captain in of fi tness centres with his least 21, including the group stage of international manager Arun Pandey, with Reebok, Aircel, Boost, the World Cup cricket `2,000 crore invested and Pepsi, Exide, Sonata April 02 '11 plans announced to have a watches, Sony Bravia chain of 200 gyms Sept 06 '11 India wins the Mar 20 '12 Feb 18 '17 CONTROVERSIES Asia Cup India Oct 02 '12 2007: New captain is mired in trouble 2013: Dhoni is accused of holding doesn't win a Jan 04 '17 immediately when Sourav Ganguly and a stake in Rhiti Sports, a fi rm June 23 '13 single match on Mar 31 '16 Rahul Dravid are dropped from the Indian managing him, Suresh Raina, their tour of T20 team, with stories fl oating of a rift with Ravindra Jadeja and Pragyan Ojha. Jan 30 '15 Mar 06 '16 England then deputy Virender Sehwag He denied holding any such stake India wins Knocked Mar 26 '15 June21 '15 the World Cup out again after 28 years, from World Quits as 2013: His name is dragged into a spot-fi xing probe centred around with the skipper Knocked son-in-law of then BCCI chief N Srinivasan Wins the ODI and T20 Gurunath Meiyappan, hitting the winning T20 Conclude and listed as team principal of Chennai Super Kings. Eventually, in out of Asia Cup (tweaked captain of runs with a Asia Cup their tour of 2015, CSK and Rajasthan Royals are suspended for two years and massive six Australia, with to be a T20 India MSD moves grudgingly to lead the Rising Pune Supergiants tournament) to get Wins no wins them a place in the Removed as Champions Lose in the Defeated World T20 captain of IPL 2015: The normally unfl appable Dhoni loses 2016: MS Dhoni: The Untold Trophy, becomes semifinals of the First by West Indies team Rising Pune his cool over a poor umpiring decision and Story, the biopic, is criticised for first captain to Wold Cup, by 95 in Mumbai captain to lose Supergiants is fi ned 10% of his fee for his trouble. In airbrushing inconvenient topics hold all three runs to host a series to in the the same year he and a Bangladeshi player from the story, including players Australia World T20 trophies Bangladesh collide with and push each other and the he dropped and movie stars he Indian captain is fi ned 75% of his fee may or may not have dated