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MS DHONI's name is again written in golden letters in the history of IPL, he has created a great record by doing this feat at the age of 43
MS Dhoni Record: The 30th match of IPL 2025 was played on Monday, 14 April between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, where CSK's star wicketkeeper batsman and current captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a stormy innings of 26 runs in 11 balls and played an important role in getting his team the victory.
In the LSG vs CSK match, the way Dhoni hit 4 fours and 1 six and played an unbeaten innings of 26 runs at a strike rate of over 236 for CSK in difficult times and for the contribution he made with his captaincy and wicketkeeping, Dhoni was awarded the 'Man of the Match' award after the match. With this, a big record has been registered in Dhoni's name.
In fact, Dhoni has now become the oldest player to be chosen as 'Man of the Match' in the history of IPL. He got this award at the age of 43 years and 280 days, with which he broke the record of Praveen Tambe. Praveen Tambe got this award at the age of 42 years and 208 days.
Not only this, also know that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is also the oldest successful player to captain a team in the history of IPL. Apart from this, the record of remaining not out the most number of times during successful run chases in IPL is also registered in Dhoni's name. Dhoni has returned to the pavilion unbeaten 30 times in successful run chases.
This was the condition of the match
If we talk about the match played at Ekana Stadium, then in this match Chennai Super Kings won the toss and chose to bowl first, after which Lucknow Super Giants scored 166 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of their captain Rishabh Pant's half-century innings of 63 runs.
In response, Shivam Dubey played an unbeaten innings of 43 runs in 37 balls for Super Kings. At the same time, Rachin Ravindra (37), Sheikh Rashid (27) and MS Dhoni (26) also made important contributions, on the basis of which the team achieved the target of 167 runs in 19.3 overs and won the match by 5 wickets. It is worth noting that this is only the second win of CSK in the season.
