10 things that happened since the last time Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were not in the top 4

#9 MS Dhoni made his debut, led India to 2 World Cups and retired from Tests

Dhoni made his ODI debut in 2004 against Bangladesh and took over ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007

Perhaps, an inkling as to the duration of the period when Federer and Nadal dominated tennis could be gauged from the fact that star cricketer MS Dhoni made his debut, led India to 2 World Cup wins and then retired from one format of cricket – all within 2003 and 2016.

Dhoni made his ODI debut in 2004 against Bangladesh and took over ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007. He would promptly lead India to victory in the inaugural T20 World Cup and then 4 years later the ODI World Cup.

Under his captaincy, India became the No.1 ranked team in Tests and in 2013, under his captaincy, India became the first team in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. Dhoni retired from Test cricket during India’s tour of Australia in 2014-15. He is still India’s captain in the shorter formats but at 35 years of age, is almost ready to call time on his career.