MS Dhoni IPL Recrod: The sixth match of the 16th season of IPL was played between Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants. In this high scoring match, Chennai defeated Lucknow by 12 runs. Playing first, CSK scored 217 runs for 7 wickets. At the same time, to achieve the target of 218 runs, the team of Lucknow could score 205 runs for 7 wickets. This is the first win of Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2023. CSK captain MS Dhoni achieved a special feat in this match against Lucknow Super Giants.
Dhoni first Indian batsman
In the match against Lucknow, MS Dhoni completed 5000 runs in his IPL career. If seen in terms of balls, then Dhoni is only the second batsman from India to score the fastest 5000 runs in IPL. Dhoni has completed 5 thousand runs in IPL on 3691 balls. Suresh Raina holds the record of completing the fastest 5000 runs for India in terms of balls in IPL. Former CSK batsman Suresh Raina, known as Mr. IPL, had completed 5 thousand runs in 3619 balls.
This is Dhoni’s IPL record
MS Dhoni was associated with Chennai Super Kings as captain in the first season of IPL. If the half season of IPL 2022 is left out, then only Dhoni has been the captain of CSK. Although in the year 2016, when CSK was banned for 2 years, then he was not the captain of the team. Then Dhoni played for Rising Pune Supergiants for 2 years. Dhoni has played 236 matches in IPL so far. Scored 5004 runs in 208 innings of these 236 matches. He has 24 half-centuries in his name in this league. Dhoni’s highest score in IPL is 84 runs not out. He has also hit 347 fours and 232 sixes in IPL.
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