IPL 2023: ‘He came.. He hit.. He created a record’.. Dhoni in the list of IPL toppers.. Who is in the list..? | IPL 2023: MS Dhoni becomes 7th player in the list of IPL Players who have reached 5000 runs mark
Chennai won the IPL match against Lucknow Supergiants by 12 runs on Monday. However, during Chennai’s batting innings, Chennai captain Dhoni got on the field and scored 12 runs in three balls. With this, Dhoni became the top scorer of IPL after scoring 5000 runs in the history of IPL.
Apr 04, 2023 | 8:40 AM
Chennai won the IPL match against Lucknow Supergiants by 12 runs on Monday. However, during Chennai’s batting innings, Chennai captain Dhoni got on the field and scored 12 runs in three balls. With this, Dhoni became the top scorer of IPL after scoring 5000 runs in the history of IPL.
Yes, Dhoni hit 2 consecutive sixes with 5 balls left in Chennai’s batting innings. But he got caught on the third ball and got out. In one word.. Dhoni played like ‘he came.. he hit.. he created a record’.
But before Dhoni there were six players who scored 5000 runs in IPL cricket. That means Dhoni has joined the 7th cricketer in that list. And now let’s have a look at who is there before Dhoni in that list..
King Kohli tops the list of batsmen who scored the most runs in the history of IPL. Virat, who played 216 innings in IPL, scored a total of 6,706 runs. What is special is that Kohli has played every match in the IPL so far for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
After King Kohli in this list is Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan. Dhawan, who played 206 innings in his IPL career, scored a total of 6,284 runs.
Delhi captain David Warner is also in this list. Warner uncle who scored 5,937 runs became the third cricketer to achieve this feat. Warner took 163 innings for this.
Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma is fourth in the list with 5,880 runs. And Rohinth took a total of 223 innings for these runs.
Suresh Raina is also one of the run heroes of IPL. Suresh Raina, who scored a total of 5,528 runs, took 200 innings for that.
AB de Villiers is at the 6th position with 5,162 runs. AB who played a total of 170 IPL innings scored these runs.
Dhoni, the captain of the Chennai team, has recently joined this process. Dhoni played a total of 208 innings and scored 5004 runs. With this, Dhoni became the 7th player to reach the 5000 run mark in IPL cricket.
