IPL 2022 will kick off with a bang on Saturday with the match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders. This match will be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai starting at 7:30 p.m. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who made Chennai a four-time IPL champion, decided to step down as team captain on Thursday. Now the multi-talented Ravindra Jadeja will take command of Chennai. Although Dhoni will still play for Chennai in IPL. In the first match, he gets a chance to make history.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played 220 matches in his IPL career, scoring 4746 runs with his bat. Dhoni also scored 23 fifty in IPL and his highest score is 84 not out. Dhoni has played 98 T20 Internationals for Team India, in which he has scored 1617 runs. Apart from this, he also played some T20 matches for the Jharkhand state team. Overall, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played a total of 347 matches in his T20 career, in which he has scored 6935 runs. If Dhoni scores 65 runs against Kolkata then he will complete 7000 runs in T20 cricket. He will become the sixth Indian cricketer to complete 7000 runs in his T20 career.
So far, five batsmen from India have scored 7000 runs or more in T20 cricket. In the match against KKR, Dhoni has a chance to join the roster of Virat Kohli (10,273 runs), Rohit Sharma (9,895 runs), Shikhar Dhawan (8,775 runs), Suresh Raina (8,654 runs) and Robin Uthappa (7,042 runs). . .