5 trophies India will always thank MS Dhoni for

2008 Commonwealth Bank Series, Australia

The CB series victory in Australia in 2008

Australia is probably one of the toughest tournaments to win and over the years, through the 80s and 90s, only one team had managed to challenge Australia – West Indies. During the 2000s when Australia was indomitable, very few teams could challenge its supremacy. South Africa won the CB Series in 2001/02 and England pulled it off in 2006/07.

In 2007/08, Ganguly was given the sack to blood youngsters of Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir’s ilk and they did everyone proud. India didn’t need a third final as they won the first two.

Sachin Tendulkar scored an unbeaten century chasing 242 in the first and scored 91 in the second to help India post 258, which they defended against an Australian side that had Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey and Andrew Symonds (their best ODI batting line-up arguably). Praveen Kumar was the bowling hero picking 4 wickets.