During the Sydney ODI between Australia and India, the former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni becomes the fifth batsman to score 10,000 ODI runs for the Indian cricket team.
In the last July, during the Lord’s ODI against England (14 July 2018), Dhoni completed his 10,000 ODI runs in 273 ODI innings. But while he also played three ODIs for Asia XI in 2007, where he scored 174 runs, including one century (139*), he has now completed the 10,000 ODI runs for his national team.
The Sydney ODI is Dhoni’s 330th ODI match and 279th ODI innings for his country where he completed his 10,000 ODI runs for his national team just when he opened his account.
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Coming to bat at India’s struggling period of 4/3 at their chasing of 289 runs, Dhoni opened his innings on the final ball of the sixth over of that innings through a single. With that get off the mark, Dhoni achieved the special feat.
Here are some important stats of this special achievement
- Second wicketkeeper-batsman to score 10,000 ODI runs for a side. Former Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara (13,082 runs) was the first to achieve this feat.
- Fifth batsman to score 10,000 ODI runs for the Indian cricket team. The other four Indian cricketers are Sachin Tendulkar (18,426 runs), Sourav Ganguly (11,221 runs), Rahul Dravid (10,768 runs) and Virat Kohli (10, 235 runs).
- 13th batsman to score 10,000 ODI runs for any particular side.
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Coming to the Sydney ODI, Australia set the 289 runs target for the visiting side after winning the toss. Australian managed to score 288/5 at the end of first 50 overs of the match. After both their openers Alex Carey (24 runs) and Aaron Finch (6 runs) fell at early, Usman Khawaja (59 runs), Shaun Marsh (54 runs) and Peter Handscomb (73 runs) played 50+ knocks to secure a good total. Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell finished that innings very well as they remained unbeaten on 47 runs (43 balls) and 11 runs (5 balls) respectively.
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Among the Indian bowlers, the pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar and the left-arm chinaman Kuldeep Yadav bagged two wickets each while another left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja claimed the other wicket of that innings.
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At the beginning of their chasing, India lost three wickets at very quick times. While the opener Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed for a golden duck, the skipper Virat Kohli (3) and the no.4 batsman Ambati Rayudu (0) followed Dhawan soon. Since then, another opener Rohit Sharma has taken the charge to control that innings along with MS Dhoni who just completed his 10,000 ODI runs for India.
Here are some Twitter reactions:
🙌 10,000 ODI RUNS FOR INDIA FOR MS DHONI 🙌
The wicket-keeper batsman becomes the fifth to reach the milestone for his country. 👏#AUSvIND LIVE 👇https://t.co/cJ0yJS6W8v pic.twitter.com/ezkRGRjCRI
— ICC (@ICC) January 12, 2019
Roar whistles for a #Thala Milestone!10K with the bat, donning the blue! #WhistlePodu #AUSvIND 💛🦁 pic.twitter.com/BjC1Xl1a0M
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) January 12, 2019
10,000 ODI runs for @msdhoni , Congratulations MS! What a brilliant & illustrious career. Continue doing what you do, inspire millions. #Dhoni pic.twitter.com/D9EpHsHfsO
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina) January 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/_itz_Dhanush/status/1084001108240953344
https://twitter.com/DHONIism/status/1084006816109912065
#Dhoni just happy to see him in blue. Congratulations for 10000!💙 @msdhoni pic.twitter.com/YCb9zstv5M
— Swati Iyer (@SwatiIyer1) January 12, 2019
10000 ODI runs! Finally!! M S Dhoni 🇮🇳💙🏏 pic.twitter.com/tADZlv7hoF
— Arnaz Bisney (@ArnazBisney) January 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/srinivasredddie/status/1083988904359845888
10000 ODI run for Dhoni😍
Back to form🤗🤗
Thala on rise 😎🙏
Congrats on this occasion 🙏#INDvsAUS #Dhoni pic.twitter.com/jO3Xy8wydf— Rabin Koirala🇳🇵 (@Rabin_AG) January 12, 2019
