MS Dhoni: If we talk about the best players in the history of Indian cricket, then the name of Mahendra Singh Dhoni (MS Dhoni), who comes from the small town of Ranchi in Jharkhand, will also be included in the list. Under his captaincy, Mahi won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2011 ODI World Cup as well as the 2017 Champions Trophy for India.

Dhoni is also counted among the great captains of world cricket. However, he has been as good a player as he has been a captain in international cricket. He has demonstrated this many times.

The double century scored by MS Dhoni in the 2013 Test series against Australia is one of those historic innings. Today we are going to discuss that innings in detail once again.

When 224 runs came out of MS Dhoni's bat

Actually this incident happened during the 2013 Test series played between India and Australia.

Both the teams were face to face in the first Test at M Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. If we talk about this match, then the Australian team decided to bat first after winning the toss. Batting first, this team scored 380 runs in the first innings.

In response to this, Team India was forced to struggle after losing 4 wickets for only 196 runs. However, after this, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's fierce form was seen when he came to bat. The right-handed batsman scored 224 runs in 265 balls in an explosive manner.

His innings included 24 fours and 6 sixes. During this, his strike rate was 84.52.

The situation of the competition was something like this

Thanks to Mahendra Singh Dhoni's brilliant double century, the Indian team had scored a mammoth score of 572 runs in the first innings. Based on the score made by Australia in the first innings, India got a lead of 192 runs. In the second innings, the Kangaroo team collapsed by scoring only 241 runs in front of the Indian spinners.

In this way, India got a target of 50 runs to win. Team India won the match by losing two wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin took a total of 12 wickets in this match.

However, this match was recorded in golden letters in the pages of history due to Dhoni's innings of 224 runs.