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Latest Achievements
Under the able Captainship of Dhoni, the Indian One Day International (ODI) Cricket team continued to maintain its record of victory. First of all, the team defeated Australia consecutively in 2 final matches of the Commonwealth Bank Series played in March 2008. The series was played between India, Australia and Sri Lanka. In the first final, Australia scored 239 at the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs. India bounced back with 242 runs in just 45.5 overs at the loss of 4 wickets. Sachin Tendulkar was the highest scorer with 117 Not Out, while Dhoni scored 15 Not Out. In the second final, India scored 258 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs with Sachin again being the largest contributor with 91 runs. Dhoni scored 36 Not Out in the innings. The Australian team crashed out at 249 runs with 2 balls remaining, and India became the winner of the championship.After this, in the India tour of Sri Lanka in Jan-Feb 2009, India simply washed out Sri Lanka with 4-1 win in the ODIs while they also crashed Sri Lanka in the single Twenty-20 match played between the two countries. In this series, Dhoni was the maximum scorer in the 4th ODI played on 5th of Feb 2009. He scored 94 runs out of 96 balls in the match.
Then again in the India Tour of New Zealand in the year 2008-09, India played Test, ODI and Twenty-20 Series against New Zealand. In the Test Series, India won 1 match out of the 3 matches while 2 were drawn, making India the winner of the series. Dhoni scored a total of 155 runs in the series with his highest score of 56 not out. While in the ODI Series, India defeated New Zealand by 3-1, as 1 match out of the 5 matches went without any result. In this series, Dhoni scored 184 total runs with highest of 84 not out. Similarly, India won both the Twenty-20 matches of the Twenty-20 Matches Series, and Dhoni scored a total of 30 runs with highest score of 28 not out in the Twenty-20 matches
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