During the 2015 Cricket World Cup, Dhoni became the first Indian captain to win all group stage matches in a world cup. [90] In the match against Zimbabwe at Auckland, he made 85 which was the highest score by an Indian captain in New Zealand.

In the 2011 edition co-hosted by India, the Indian team led by MS Dhoni progressed to the quarterfinals after four wins from six matches in the group stage. India defeated three-time defending champions Australia in the quarterfinals, before defeating the Sri Lanka cricket team in the finals to lift its second World Cup title.

A day before that announcement from Dravid, a young India side under Dhoni played the first game of the first T20 World Cup in South Africa, and went on to win the tournament. The ODI...

2019年6月5日 · Dhoni played his first World Cup in 2007, under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly. He did not get many chances in that edition and scored 29 runs in three matches. In 2011 World Cup, he was the captain of the Indian team and despite not being in the best of form, Dhoni played a match-winning knock in the final against Sri Lanka and sealed the ...

2025年2月3日 · M.S. Dhoni (born July 7, 1981, Ranchi, Bihar [now Jharkhand] state, India) is an Indian cricketer whose rise to prominence in the early 21st century culminated in his captaincy of the Indian national team that won the one-day Cricket World Cup in 2011.

2023年10月19日 · Meanwhile, Dhoni guided India to the first-ever ICC T20 World Cup title by defeating Pakistan in the final in 2007. Four years later, Dhoni led the Indian cricket team to the 2011 ICC World Cup title held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. With the win, India clinched their second ODI World Cup title after Kapil Dev’s men had won it in 1983.

India captain MS Dhoni, promoting himself up the order, joined Gambhir and they both added 109 runs, an Indian record in a World Cup final. Gambhir got out for 97 runs in the 42nd over. India chased down the total and won the match by six wickets in the 49th over.

Dhoni successfully led India to the 2015 World Cup semi-final, where the defending champions conceded cricket’s most desirable trophy to Australia.

He led a young Indian team to the first-ever T20 World Cup victory in South Africa in 2007. Dhoni then led India to their second ODI World Cup victory in 2011.

In the final on April 2, 2011, after being reduced to 31 for two, the Indian batsmen, led by Gautam Gambhir (97) and MS Dhoni (91*), held their nerve to overhaul the Lankan score of 274. It was also a tournament where exceptional individual performances helped …