Trivia T20 WC: The Only Captain to Have Captained Over 30 Matches

This captain in question has a winning percentage of 60.60

Captaining a national team of any sport is incredibly hard, given the team is expected to win every trophy that comes its way. When it comes to cricket, there are three major trophies that Test-playing nations fight for – the T20 World Cup, the 50-over World Cup and the World Test Championship.

Given the T20 World Cup’s curtains fall in the next few hours, here is one last trivia about one of the most iconic captains in the tournament’s history. This captain in question is the only one to have captained over 30 matches. In fact, no other captain has ever captained a side in more than 20 games.

A true winner

The man needs no introduction because he is none other than the legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s former two-time World Cup winning skipper. The former captain led the side from 2007 till 2016, handling the team’s charge in 33 T20 World Cup games.

Out of 33 games, Dhoni’s Indian side emerged victorious on 20 occasions, and they lost 11 matches – one game ended in a tie, whereas another concluded with no result. As a captain, Dhoni recorded a winning percentage of 60.60. Not to forget, he led the team to the T20 World Cup trophy in the inaugural season of 2007 by defeating Pakistan.

Former Indian skipper MS Dhoni with the first-ever ICC T20 World Cup trophy in 2007

T20 World Cup statistics

When it comes to dismissals as a wicketkeeper, Dhoni leads the table with 32 dismissals, out of which 21 were caught out and 11 were stumpings. In one of the matches, he dismissed four players – his highest in the tournament. Moving on to batting, Dhoni played 29 innings out of 33 matches, in which, he scored 529 runs at an average of 35.27 with a highest score of 45 runs not-out.

T20I statistics overall

In the overall T20 international, Dhoni played 98 matches, amassing 1,617 runs at an average of 37.60 and a strike rate of 126.13, including two half-centuries. His highest score in the format remains 56, and in terms of boundaries, Dhoni hit 116 boundaries and 52 sixes. As a wicketkeeper in the format, he made 57 caught out and 34 stumpings.

Out of 98 T20Is, Dhoni captained India in 72 matches, winning 41 and losing 28 with a winning percentage of 38.88, which is the third-best record in the format after Babar Azam and Aaron Finch.

T20I records

Here are some of the records held by Dhoni in the T20 international:

• Dhoni holds the record for most stumpings in the format (34).
• He also holds the record for most catches in an innings (five), which is equivalent to most dismissals in an innings as a wicketkeeper.
• In T20I, he has the second most dismissals as a wicketkeeper, i.e., 91.
• Dhoni retired from T20I with the second least number of ducks, i.e., 85.
• Last but not least, Dhoni played 84 consecutive matches without getting out for a duck.