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#2 Dhoni’s 10K milestone

MS Dhoni - Milestone Man

Dhoni needs just 102 more runs to become the 12th player overall, the 4th Indian behind Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid, and just the 2nd specialist wicket-keeper batsman after Kumar Sangakkara (discounting Dravid as a wicket-keeper) to score 10,000 ODI career runs.

The 11 players in this elite list so far (Sachin, Sangakkara, Ponting, Jayasurya, Jayawardene, Inzamam, Kallis, Sourav, Dravid, Lara and Dilshan) have all been players who have either opened the innings or consistently batted at No. 3 or 4 for their sides.

For someone having batted most of his career at No. 6, Dhoni’s achievement will be no mean feat, especially since he is all set to become the first player in this list to have a career average in excess of 50. He currently averages 51.55 after having scored 9898 runs in 268 innings across 312 ODIs.