Asia Cup: 5 Unnoticed things from the India-Afghanistan match

#1 MS Dhoni is the oldest player to captain India in ODIs

After India made a plethora of changes for today’s contest against Afghanistan. As a result, the experienced likes of Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, and their formidable seam bowling attack was rested to rope in some young blood. And to everyone’s surprise, India hand MS Dhoni his 200th ODI as the skipper of India.

This was after more than a year and a half that MS Dhoni was once donning the skipper’s hat in the Blues. However, with this, he became the oldest Indian player to captain an Indian side in ODIs. Before the game, Mohammad Azharuddin (36 years and 124 days) was the oldest to skipper India while Dhoni (37 years and 80 days) went a notch ahead of the former skipper.