Mahendra Singh Dhoni: MS Dhoni became the first player to captain 300 T20 games on Friday.
MS Dhoni accomplished this feat when he led the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) final against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Dubai International Stadium in the United Arab Emirates.
Daren Sammy is a distant runner-up at 208 and no one else has surpassed 200.
It was the Kolkata Knight Riders who won the litter and took on the Chennai Super Kings in the final.
“It’s been a long time. We started T20 in around 2005-06 and most of the games have been franchise cricket and in the last five years there have been a lot of T20 games in international cricket as well,” MS Dhoni said at the toss.
As MS Dhoni captains his 300th game of T20 (all formats). KKR will get a boost from the fact that he has won his last six goals in the game.
The Teams:
Chennai Super Kings
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt./wk)
- Ruturaj Gaikwad
- Faf du Plessis
- Robin Uthappa
- Moeen Ali
- Ambati Rayudu
- Ravindra Jadeja
- Dwayne Bravo
- Shardul Thakur
- Deepak Chahar
- Josh Hazlewood
Kolkata Knight Riders
- Eoin Morgan (capt.)
- Shubman Gill
- Venkatesh Iyer
- Nitish Rana
- Rahul Tripathi
- Dinesh Karthik (wk)
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Sunil Narine
- Lockie Ferguson
- Shivam Mavi
- Varun Chakaravarthy
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