IPL 2021 Final: MS Dhoni turns into first participant to captain 300 T20 matches

MS Dhoni grew to become the primary participant to captain in 300 T20 video games on Friday.
Dhoni achieved this feat when he captained Chennai Super Kings within the ultimate of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 towards Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the Dubai International Stadium in UAE. Daren Sammy is a distant second with 208 and nobody else has handed 200.
It was Kolkata Knight Riders who received the toss and elected to area towards Chennai Super Kings within the ultimate.
While Dhoni is enjoying his three hundredth T20 recreation (all codecs) as captain, KKR will get a lift from the truth that they’ve received their final six video games the place they’ve chased targets.
“It’s been a long time. We started T20 in around 2005-06 and most of the games have been franchise cricket and in the last five years there have been a lot of T20 games in international cricket as well,” Dhoni stated on the toss.

🚨 Toss Update 🚨@Eoin16 has received the toss & @KKRiders have elected to bowl towards the @msdhoni-led @ChennaiIPL within the #VIVOIPL #Final. #CSKvKKR
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) October 15, 2021
The 40-year-old former India captain, enjoying his tenth IPL ultimate (ninth for CSK as captain), has led the ‘Yellow Brigade’ in 214 video games throughout 12 editions that they’ve taken half out of the 14 IPL seasons.
He has additionally led Rising Pune Supergiants throughout one IPL season aside from main India in six T20 World Cups.
His crowning glory will surely be main India to T20 World Cup title in South Africa again in 2007.
Before that match, India had performed just one T20I in 2006 in South Africa of which Dhoni was an element.
The Teams:
Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt./wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Faf du Plessis, Robin Uthappa, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Josh Hazlewood.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan (capt.), Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakaravarthy.