Stats: MS Dhoni becomes the most capped wicketkeeper in International cricket
The 36-year-old is currently playing his 467th International match, all of them as a wicketkeeper.
While MS Dhoni featured in his milestone 300th ODI game at the Colombo’s R. Premadasa Stadium against Sri Lanka, the former Indian captain and the keeper-batsman also become the most capped wicketkeeper in International cricket by featuring in the 4th ODI of the series. The 36-year-old is currently playing his 467th International match, all of them as a wicketkeeper.
Dhoni, who became only the 20th player and the 6th Indian to feature in 300 ODIs, also became the 2nd player after Kumar Sangakkara to feature in 300 ODIs as a wicketkeeper. Dhoni also kept wickets in 90 Test matches and 77 T20Is helping him to surpass Mark Boucher’s tally of 466 International matches as a keeper. The South African played in a total of 467 matches in his career but didn’t keep wickets in an ODI.
Most matches as a wicketkeeper in International cricket:
Player | Teams | Matches | Runs | Catches | Stumpings |
MS Dhoni | India / Asia XI | 467* | 15695* | 577* | 160* |
MV Boucher | South Africa / Africa XI | 466 | 10463 | 952 | 46 |
KC Sangakkara | Sri Lanka / Asia XI / ICC World XI | 464 | 17840 | 532 | 139 |
AC Gilchrist | Australia / ICC World XI | 391 | 15252 | 813 | 92 |
IA Healy | Australia | 287 | 6120 | 560 | 68 |
Most matches as a wicketkeeper in ODI cricket:
Player | Teams | Matches | Runs | Catches | Stumpings |
KC Sangakkara | Sri Lanka / Asia XI / ICC World XI | 360 | 13341 | 383 | 99 |
MS Dhoni | India / Asia XI | 300* | 9608* | 278* | 99* |
MV Boucher | South Africa / Africa XI | 294 | 4680 | 402 | 22 |
AC Gilchrist | Australia / ICC World XI | 282 | 9410 | 417 | 55 |
Moin Khan | Pakistan | 211 | 3100 | 214 | 73 |
Dhoni who retired from the Test format in 2014, has appeared in 90 matches; the most by any Indian wicketkeeper and the 6th most for any player as a keeper.
Most matches as a wicketkeeper in Test cricket:
Player | Teams | Matches | Runs | Catches | Stumpings |
MV Boucher | South Africa / ICC World XI | 147 | 5515 | 532 | 23 |
IA Healy | Australia | 119 | 4356 | 366 | 29 |
AC Gilchrist | Australia | 96 | 5570 | 379 | 37 |
RW Marsh | Australia | 96 | 3633 | 343 | 12 |
APE Knott | England | 95 | 4389 | 250 | 19 |
TG Evans | England | 91 | 2439 | 173 | 46 |
MS Dhoni | India | 90 | 4876 | 256 | 38 |
He holds the record for being the keeper in the most number of Twenty20 Internationals as he has kept wickets in 77 games; 19 more than the next best Dinesh Ramdin (58).
Most matches as a wicketkeeper in Twenty20 Internationals:
Player | Teams | Matches | Runs | Catches | Stumpings |
MS Dhoni | India | 77 | 1211 | 43 | 23 |
D Ramdin | West Indies | 58 | 421 | 32 | 19 |
Mohammad Shahzad | Afghanistan | 57 | 1761 | 25 | 27 |
KC Sangakkara | Sri Lanka | 56 | 1382 | 25 | 20 |
Mushfiqur Rahim | Bangladesh | 55 | 668 | 22 | 24 |
Kamran Akmal | Pakistan | 53 | 876 | 28 | 32 |
(Stats as on August 31, 2017)
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