MS Dhoni’s Captaincy Record In IPL

MS Dhoni’s Captaincy Record In IPL

MS Dhoni is probably the most successful captain in the Indian Premier League history. He started his journey as a leader in the inaugural season of IPL in 2008 and took his team to the finals. MS tasted his first success as a leader in 2010 when Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians at the DY Patil Stadium to lift their maiden IPL title. The pride of Jharkhand carried on the same form in the next season too and CSK became the first team to win consecutive titles in 2011.

MSD Captaincy Record with CSK

• Matches: 226
• Won: 133
• Lost: 91
• No Result: 2
• IPL Titles: 5
• Runs: 4660
• Highest Score: 84 not out off 48 balls vs Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2019
• Fifties: 22
• Sixes: 218
• Fours: 320
• Innings as Wicketkeeper: 226
• Dismissals: 167
• Catches: 128
• Stumpings: 39

The Chennai-based franchise could not clinch the silverware for seven more years but after their suspension from IPL from 2016 to 2017, they came back strongly in 2018 and registered their third title victory in 2018. MS went on to bag another two titles for the Men in Yellow in 2021 and 2023,

In the last 16 seasons, the Dhoni-led team has qualified for the playoffs 12 times and played nine finals.

Captaincy Record of MS Dhoni

MS has captained CSK in 226 matches and came out victorious in 133 matches, the highest by any captain. His win percentage reads 58.84 which is also the highest by a skipper.

The World Cup-winning skipper has accumulated more than 4500 runs as a skipper, the 2nd most by anyone. Only Virat Kohli has more runs than him in this category.

The veteran not only gained popularity for his batting and leadership but his work behind the stumps is astonishing too.  He has 180 dismissals in his name in 250 matches out of which catches are 138 and stumping are 42, the most by any wicket-keeper in the marquee event.