10 best innings played by Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#3 183* vs Sri Lanka, Jaipur, 2005

This humongous score against the Lankans was the knock which made Dhoni arrive on the cricketing stage. He was considered already as a dangerous batsman but this inning at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium made him one of the most feared batsmen in the world.

Chasing 299, India's inning started in the worst possible way with Sachin Tendulkar departing in the first over. In a surprising decision by Ganguly and the team management, MS Dhoni was sent in to bat at number three.

What followed was absolute carnage of the highest order! No bowler was spared by the hard hitting of Dhoni. He scored a mammoth 183 runs off 145 deliveries and got India home with four overs to spare. His innings included 15 fours and 11 huge sixes.

This was a run chase unheard of by the Indians with Dhoni's master class being noticed by the entire world. His exploits in that game can be best expressed by the statistic that after him, the next highest score by an Indian batsman in that game was 39.