Here's a thread of 5⃣0⃣ international stats as my tribute to @msdhoni, from obvious to less known.

(1) MS Dhoni is only the second player to get dismissed for a duck in his first ODI match and finish with an average of above 50.
The other player is Jonathan Trott.
#ThankYouMSD
(2) MS Dhoni in his first ODI - 0(1)
MS Dhoni in his final ODI - 50(72)

MS Dhoni in his first T20I - 0(2)
MS Dhoni in his final T20I - 40(23)
#ThankYouMSD
(3) Indian wicket-keepers scoring 1000+ ODI runs in an year:-

2007 - MS Dhoni with 1198 runs
2008 - MS Dhoni with 1103 runs
2009 - MS Dhoni with 1198 runs
(4) MS Dhoni is the only player not-out 50+ times in ODIs while chasing. Highest in this list:-
50 - MS DHONI
37 - Mohammad Azharuddin
35 - Jonty Rhodes
34 - Inzamam-ul-Haq
34 - Jacques Kallis

Out of those 50 innings, a stunning 47 of them are in wins and only 2 in defeat.
(5) An obvious one. MS Dhoni is the only captain to win all major ICC tournaments - World Cup, T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy.

Ricky Ponting is the only other captain to win 3 ICC tournament titles.
(6) MS Dhoni also captained the most.

Most matches as a captain in men's ICC tournaments:-
58 - MS DHONI
51 - Ricky Ponting
42 - Graeme Smith
40 - Stephen Fleming
29 - Brian Lara
(7) Not just ICC tournaments, MS Dhoni also holds the overall record.

Most matches as a captain in international cricket:-
332 - MS DHONI
324 - Ricky Ponting
303 - Stephen Fleming
286 - Graeme Smith
271 - Allan Border
(8) In a captaincy career of a record 332 matches, incredibly Dhoni's first and last matches as a captain both ended in a tie.

First match as captain - vs Pakistan in 2007 T20 WC
Last match as captain - vs Afghanistan in 2019 WC
(9) MS Dhoni is the only Indian captain with 50+ scores in five consecutive Test innings. It was in 2008-09.

Dhoni's scores then:-
92 v AUS
68* v AUS
56 v AUS
55 v AUS
53 v ENG
(10) MS Dhoni is the only Indian wicket-keeper to score a Test double century.

Highest scores by Indian wicket-keepers in Tests:-
224 - MS DHONI
192 - Budhi Kunderan
159* - Rishabh Pant
152 - Nayan Mongia
148 - MS Dhoni
144 - MS Dhoni
132* - MS Dhoni
(11) MS Dhoni's ODI average at various positions:-
As opener - 49.0
No.3 - 82.8
No.4 - 56.6
No.5 - 50.3
No.6 - 47.3
No.7 - 44.8

Dhoni is the only player to average above 40 at all batting positions, from opener to No.7.
(12) The top-two highest partnerships for fourth wicket in ODIs are both by Indians - at the same venue, Cuttack.

275* - Ajay Jadeja & Mohammad Azharuddin in 1998
256 - MS DHONI & Yuvraj Singh in 2017
Both Dhoni and Yuvraj retired within last one year without any farewell.
(13) MS Dhoni's average in ODIs under:-

Kohli's captaincy - 56.0
Self captaincy - 53.6
Ganguly's captaincy - 46.4
Dravid's captaincy - 40.9
(Min: 10 inns)
(14) Best batting average in ODI Asia Cup (min: 10 inn):-
66.3 - Navjot Sidhu
64.8 - MS DHONI
61.3 - Virat Kohli
60.8 - Suresh Raina
58.5 - Mohammad Azharuddin

Both the players who retired recently were exceptional in the Asia Cup.
(15) Only five players average 50+ in both home and away ODI matches.

Michael Bevan🇦🇺
AB de Villiers🇿🇦
MS Dhoni🇮🇳
Virat Kohli🇮🇳
Joe Root🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
(16) Test average of Indians in ENG, among those who first played in ENG since 2000:-

37.0 - DHONI
36.4 - Kohli
34.5 - Laxman
30.7 - Jadeja
30.6 - Vijay
29.9 - Rahul
29.4 - Pujara
29.3 - Rahane
28.4 - Karthik
27.8 - Sehwag
27.4 - Bhuvi
25.7 - Ashwin
24.4 - Jaffer
20.3 - Dhawan
(17) MS Dhoni is the only Indian captain with 50+ scores above fifty in ODIs.

Most scores above fifty by IND captains in ODIs:-
53 - MS DHONI
44 - Virat Kohli
41 - Mohammad Azharuddin
41 - Sourav Ganguly
27 - Rahul Dravid
(18) Most runs in ODIs at No.5 or below:-

8324 - MS DHONI (avg 47.6)
6041 - Arjuna Ranatunga (avg 35.1)
5797 - Steve Waugh (avg 34.3)
5421 - Angelo Mathews (avg 41.7)
4870 - Yuvraj Singh (avg 38.3)
(19) Most 50+ scores in away ODIs, while batting at No.5 or below:-
30 - MS DHONI🇮🇳
16 - Michael Hussey🇦🇺
15 - Angelo Mathews🇱🇰
13 - Russell Arnold🇱🇰
13 - Andrew Symonds🇦🇺
13 - Yuvraj Singh🇮🇳

Probably a dominant away record even without a century outside Asia.
(21) MS Dhoni is the only wicket-keeper to take more than 100 stumpings in ODIs. Next placed is Kumar Sangakkara with 99 ODI stumpings, another nice number.
(22) MS Dhoni has some good connections to the number '222'.

Dhoni hit 222 sixes in ODIs, the second most by an Indian after Rohit.
Dhoni in his 222nd captaincy match, broke Azhaurddin's record of most matches as an Indian captain.
(23) MS Dhoni’s first hundred in:-

Test - 148 vs Pakistan
ODI - 148 vs Pakistan
(24) MS Dhoni's average in Bangladesh:-
Test - 96.5
ODI - 55.5
T20I - 92.0

Dhoni is the only player to average 50+ in Bangladesh in all three formats. However Dhoni and Bangladesh is more remembered for this:-
(25) Most runs by a wicket-keeper in T20Is:-
1918 - Mohammad Shahzad (avg 31.4)
1617 - MS DHONI (avg 37.6)
1382 - Kumar Sangakkara (avg 31.4)
1352 - Brendon McCullum (avg 37.5)
1226 - Jos Buttler (avg 29.2)

Dhoni’s avg is the highest among all 26 wicketkeepers with 300+ runs.
(26) Wicket-keepers with 50+ sixes in T20Is:-
72 - Mohammad Shahzad🇦🇫
58 - Brendon McCullum 🇳🇿
52 - MS Dhoni🇮🇳
52 - Jos Buttler🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
50 - Quinton de Kock🇿🇦

MS Dhoni is the only Indian in this list.
(27) MS Dhoni hit 51 sixes in Test cricket while captaining India. The second highest by an Indian is just 17, by Sourav Ganguly.
(28) Most sixes as a captain in international cricket:-
215 - Eoin Morgan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
211 - MS DHONI🇮🇳
171 - Ricky Ponting🇦🇺
170 - Brendon McCullum🇳🇿
135 - AB de Villiers🇿🇦

Until last month, Dhoni was the leader of this list.
(29) Only at one venue, MS Dhoni scored multiple ODI centuries. That is his IPL home ground Chennai.

MS Dhoni’s hundreds at Chennai:-
139* v AfrXI in 2007 (ODI)
113* v PAK in 2012 (ODI)
224 v AUS in 2013 (Test)
(30) Most runs in T20Is with 0 or 1 duck:-
2321 - Shoaib Malik
1662 - Hamilton Masakadza
1617 - MS DHONI
1611 - Marlon Samuels
1588 - Shikhar Dhawan

Dhoni tops the list among Indians.
(31) Most international matches as a keeper-cum-captain:-
332 - MS Dhoni
100 - Sarfaraz Ahmed
81 - Mushfiqur Rahim
67 - Kumar Sangakkara
62 - Andy Flower

Sarfaraz, Mushfiqur, Sangakkara and Flower add up to 310 matches, which is still less than Dhoni.
(32) Indian wicket-keeper taking 3 stumpings in an ODI match:-

MS Dhoni v HK in 2008
MS Dhoni v SL in 2013

Dhoni’s scores in that match - 109*, 45*
In the later match, Dhoni scored 16 runs in last over to win with only 1 wicket left.
(33) Highest ODI average in New Zealand (min: 10 inns):-
119.0 - AB de Villiers
84.3 - MS Dhoni
80.7 - Michael Hussey
74.4 - Matthew Hayden
69.5 - Joe Root

Virender Sehwag at 54.4 is the only other Asian in the top-10.
(34) Most runs among players out for a duck in their first ODI match:-

18426 - Sachin Tendulkar
10773 - MS DHONI
7170 - Saleem Malik
6326 - Brendan Taylor
6173 - Kane Williamson
(35) MS Dhoni took only one wicket in his international career by dismissing Travis Dowlin in 2009 Champions Trophy.
He is the only designated wicket-keeper to pick a wicket in an ICC tournament match.
(36) MS Dhoni crossed fifty in his last innings in four different batting positions in ODIs.

Dhoni's last ODI innings as:-
Opener - 96 vs ENG in 2006
No.3 - 72 vs SL in 2009
No.4 - 87* vs AUS in 2019
No.7 - 50 vs NZ in 2019
(37) MS Dhoni scored four Test 50+ scores at Nagpur, his highest of any venue.

Interestingly, his first two scores at Nagpur are 56 & 55.
And his last two Test scores at Nagpur are 98 & 99.
(38) India had been playing Tests since 1932. But the first time they achieved No.1 spot in ICC rankings was only in 2009, under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.
(39) MS Dhoni retires with 350 ODI matches out of which 200 of them were while captaining.
Another player who can boast this kind of neatness is Andrew Strauss - playing 100 Tests and captaining 50 of them.
(40) One more player who finished on exactly 350 matches is another legend Muttiah Muralitharan.
Both were CSK teammates from 2008-2010.
(41) MS Dhoni averages 134 against Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling in ODIs!

Runs - 268
Balls - 317
Avg - 134
Strike-rate - 85
(42) Best ODI average by Indians against Sri Lanka (min: 10 inns):-

70.2 - Shikhar Dhawan
64.4 - MS DHONI
60.0 - Virat Kohli
51.7 - Dilip Vengsarkar
50.9 - Mohammad Azharuddin
50.5 - Gautam Gambhir
(43) MS Dhoni is the only player with a 50+ score at five different batting positions in IPL.

Dhoni is also the only Indian with an ODI hundred at five different positions in ODIs. (Jayawardene, S Malik and B Taylor are the other three players)
(44) MS Dhoni is the only captain to score an ODI hundred at No.7 or below.
This was a knock of 113 not-out against Pakistan in 2012. He saved India from 29/5 to an okayish score of 227/6.
(45) Scoring 50+ runs in final ODI match of career, being in World Cup knockouts:-
Rohan Kanhai v AUS in 1975
Imran Khan v ENG in 1992
Scott Styris v SL in 2011
Michael Clarke v NZ in 2015
MS Dhoni v NZ in 2019

Dhoni is the only Indian in the list.
(46) Most stumpings in international cricket:-
195 - MS DHONI
139 - Kumar Sangakkara
101 - Romesh Kaluwitharana
93 - Moin Khan
92 - Adam Gilchrist

Needed just five more to become the first to 200 stumpings.
(47) MS Dhoni is probably the only captain to lead a team to the No.1 rankings in all three formats simultaneously.
(48) Highest winning rate by Indian captains in World Cup:-

85.3% - MS Dhoni
81.8% - Sourav Ganguly
77.8% - Virat Kohli
73.3% - Kapil Dev
43.5% - Mohammad Azharuddin
33.3% - Rahul Dravid
16.7% - S Venkataraghavan
(49) Now there are a total of 28 instances of a player hitting 10 or more sixes in an ODI innings.
But no one did it earlier than MS Dhoni - against SL at Jaipur, back in 2005!
(50) Finishing with 7 bowlers against which Dhoni sealed a chase with a six:-

Brett Lee in 2007 (T20I)
Salman Butt in 2007 (ODI)
Younis Khan in 2008 (ODI)
Nuwan Kulasekara in 2011 (ODI)
Jeetan Patel in 2012 (Test)
Shaminda Eranga in 2013 (ODI)
Tinashe Panyangara in 2015 (ODI)
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