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* Team India went on to win the inaugural T20 cricket World Cup 2007
* First ever trilateral ODI series win in Australia versus Australia and Sri Lanka - 2007-08 Commonwealth Bank Series
* First ever bilateral ODI series win in Sri Lanka (IDEA CUP) in August 2008.
* He captained Team India to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008 at home versus Australia. India went on to win the coveted 4 match Test series (2-0).
* Captained Team India to win the RBS Cup 2008 at home versus England. India went on to win the coveted 2 match Test series (1-0) and the 7 match ODI series (5 -0) with the rest of the remaining two ODIs being abandoned.
* Under his captaincy, India beat Sri Lanka for the second time to clinch the IBDI Fortis Wealthsurance Cup ODI series 2009 (4-1). This is the second straight series win for Team India in Sri Lanka.
* First Indian Captain to achieve nine consecutive ODI wins (between 14/11/2008 and 05/02/2009). Earlier the record of having eight consecutive ODI wins were owned by Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.
* First ever ODI Series win in Newzealand in March 2009 :smokesmirk:
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Originally Posted by Kalyasi
Ini Erumugam thaan!!!
Dhoni becomes the Captain to have the best % of success rate for India surpassing AD Jadeja who has 61.54% success rate as captain....
Anoop :thumbsup:
4 match-ku captain-a irunthavarellam yethukku kanakkula sekkureenga...Dhoni... :bow: :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalyasi
illa 13 matches captain a irunthu irukaaru.... athula oru tri series vs Kenya and Bangladesh, apparom innoru tri series vs SA and Ken.... antha series la kooda V.Bharadwaj Man of the Series vaanguvaaru apparom S.Joshi 5/6 best bowling figures.....Quote:
Originally Posted by sourav
k... i remember that series...first 5/6....next match 56/0 polanthuttanga.. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kalyasi
India's batting line-up flourishes under Dhoni
New Delhi: It cannot be called an emphatic victory - annihilation is a more correct word. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men are breaking records wherever they play and now New Zealand has been conquered. The batting has been just brilliant so much so that Sachin Tedulkar himself calls this the best batting line-up he has played in.
Mission impossible isn't in their dictionary. India have been on an incredible run over the last six months. An incredible Commonwealth Bank series win Down Under started it all. England were chewed apart 5-0, Sri Lanka were thrashed 4-1 and now a first ever series win in New Zealand. A common factor: the Indian run machine is firing on all cylinders.
"It is the best batting line-up I've been a part of," Tendulkar says. "We've got almost five or six guys who can clear the ropes at will."
Now Sourav Ganguly may disagree with his former opening partner but sometimes statistics just drive home the point.
Sample this: under Dhoni India have won 31 of their 50 ODIs while before him India had won 313 and lost 317 of their 660 matches. But it's his key men who have suddenly exploded, tormenting bowlers worldwide like never before.
Sehwag averaged 31 before the Dhoni era, he now averages 46. Yuvraj Singh has finally realised his potential, going from 36 per ODI to 42. Suresh Raina has been the revelation - from just 27 per innings he now creams in a feisty 47. Gone are the days when Gautam Gambhir looked out of sorts in world cricket. Today he is mentioned in the same breath as Sehwag.
"We are a very young and talented side and we can chase anything because we have a belief in ourselves," Sehwag says. "Even if we are chasing 340 or 350, we have batsmen who can hit the ball very hard and we score 50 off 30 balls or maybe a hundred off 60 balls."
On song, this team's juggernaut is almost impossible to stop. Would Mohammad Azharuddin's team of 1996 and Sourav Ganguly's 2003 World Cup team stand a chance? They could match them shot for shot, but impact-wise Dhoni's men win hands down.
History is against India. The facts are startling: India last won a series here more than forty years ago and even their last Test victory here came back in 1976.
A lot will depend on how successfully India ignore history. Of late, this team has made a mockery of history and reputation. They were supposed to be the worst of the big teams at the World Twenty20, they were supposed to lose easily in the ODIs in Australia, they were not supposed to win a Test there.
Ask Mahendra Singh Dhoni if past record matters to this team and he says: "We hadn't won a one-day series [in New Zealand] either." This time they cruised through the series, just missing out on a clean sweep.
"I am not bothered about whether we have won here or not," Dhoni said. "I am just bothered about the things we need to do over here as a team. We are not thinking about what happened in the past. I am not great when it comes to stats, so that really helps." :smokesmirk:
http://content.cricinfo.com/nzvind20...ry/395475.html
Can he keep his 100% record intact? :P 8-)
:yes: still remains undefeated in Tests :smokesmirk:Quote:
Originally Posted by directhit