New Delhi: On this day, 16 years ago, when the former Indian Skipper MS Dhoni registered the highest ODI score.
Dhoni reached the achievement against Sri Lanka on October 31, 2005 in the third Odi series seven matches at the Mansingh Sawai Stadium, Jaipur.
Coming to Bat in number three, Dhoni played a knock of 183 running from 145 balls with the help of 15 four and 10 six.
His knock helped the team led by Rahanul Dravid beat Sri Lanka by six goals.
In the game, India sets targets 299 and India to be a bad start when the party lost Sachin Tendulkar at the first of the innings.
However, Dhoni changed the tempo of the game, and in the end, he remained invincible.
The former Indian captain who is probably one of the biggest captains for Grace The Cricket Field has won everything in time: from the T20i World Cup in 2007 and the 2013 Champion Cup to the ODI World Cup 2011 at home.
Dhoni, who made an international debut against Bangladesh in 2004, then played 538 matches throughout the format during his 16-year-old career.
Dhoni plays 350 international One-Day, 90 tests, and 98 Twenty20 Internationals for India.
His last appearance in international matches came in July 2019, when India lost to New Zealand in the World Cup semi-finals.
On August 15, 2020, Dhoni announced his retirement of all forms of cricket, dropped curtains on a famous career.
During his career, Dhoni collected 4,876 running in an average test of 38.09 and scored 10,773 running at ODI on average 50.57.
At T20is, Batsman Swashbuckling scored 1617 running at the ranking rate of 126.13.
Dhoni is currently a mentor for the Indian Team for the T20 World Cup of an ongoing ICC man.
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