IPL 2021 Final, CSK vs KKR: MS Dhoni Sets World Record, Becomes 1st Cricketer To Play 300 T20 Matches As Captain

Two-time World Cup winning skipper and three-time IPL winners Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni attained a special record against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the final match of IPL 2021.

New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders is facing flamboyant Chennai Super Kings in the final match of the 14th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). CSK vs KKR IPL 2021 Finale is being played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Kolkata skipper Eoin Morgan won the toss and decided to bowl first. At the time this article was filed, Chennai were 146/2 after 16.4 overs.

Two-time World Cup winning skipper and three-time IPL winners Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Friday attained a special record against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the final match of IPL 2021.

The CSK vs KKR IPL 2021 Final is veteran MS Dhoni's 300th T20 match as captain and he has become the first captain in the world to do so. The star wicket-keeper batsman has played 300 T20 matches as captain, out of which he has won 176 matches, lost 118 and 2 games ended in a draw, while the results of three matches have not been declared. The winning percentage of MS Dhoni, the captain, is 59.79.

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Dhoni has played 220 matches in IPL so far, out of which he led Chennai to clinch the IPL trophy three times. Apart from the IPL, Dhoni has captained the Indian National Cricket Team in 72 T20 matches. Team India had won the T20 World Champion for the first time in the year 2007 under Dhoni's leadership, by defeating arch-rivals Pakistan in the final.

CSK playing XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood

KKR playing XI: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Eoin Morgan (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy