MS Dhoni Inducted In ICC Hall of Fame: Former Indian Cricket Team captain MS Dhoni has been inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame as a part of the Class of 2025. He will be joining the prestigious list alongside several legends of the game from all over the world
Started in 2009 as a continuation of the FICA Hall of Fame, the ICC Hall of Fame aims to recognise some of the greats of the game. Every year, multiple cricketers from different eras, countries and genders are inducted into the HOF.
MS Dhoni Inducted In ICC Hall of Fame
This year’s class is star-studded. The most influential person in this list of seven might be MS Dhoni. Having made his Indian Cricket Team career in 2004, the wicketkeeper/batter from Jharkhand quickly established himself as India’s No. 1 keeper.
In 2007, in the absence of most senior players from the side, Dhoni was named as the captain of the team going to the first-ever T20 World Cup, in which he led India to a triumph. In about a year, he would become the captain of the national team in all three formats.
The now 40-year-old is the only captain to have won all three limited-overs ICC competitions as a skipper, those being the ODI World Cup, the T20 World Cup, and the Champions Trophy. In 2009, he would take India to the top of the Test ranking for the first time. In 2011, he led India to a World Cup win at home and a CT win in England in 2013.
MS Dhoni’s over 14-year-long international cricket career saw him not only excel as a captain but also as a batter and a wicketkeeper. In ODI cricket, he scored 10599 runs in 347 matches at an average of over 50, making him the fifth highest run scorer in the format for India. He also played in 98 T20Is and 90 Tests for the Indian Cricket Team.
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Behind the stumps, Dhoni might be India’s greatest ever wicketkeeper. In all three formats, he has the most dismissals as a keeper for the national team by some margin, as high as over three times more than the second-placed Nayan Mongia in the ODIs and nearly twice more as the second-placed Rishabh Pant in T20Is.
Dhonni becomes the 11th Indian cricketer to be inducted into the HOF. He joins legendary names like Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Bishan Singh Bedi, Rahul Dravid, and ANil Kumble in this list.
As for the rest of the Class of 2025 that was inducted into the Hall of Fame, it is filled with some absolute legends of the game. From Australia, explosive opener Matthew Hayden, who was a massive part of the indomitable Australian side of the 2000s. The greatest spin bowler to come out of New Zealand, Daniel Vettori, was also inducted. He took over 300 wickets in ODIs and Tests for a team dominated by pacers.
The South African duo of Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla was also part of this class. Smith was handed the captaincy of the national team at a very young age and became one of the most successful batters and captains of this century. Smith has the most Test wins as a skipper in the history of the game, winning 53 of the whopping 109 matches he captained. As for Amla, he is one of the most underrated batters of the 21st century and has a high-40s average in ODIs and Tests, having played well over 100 matches in both formats.
There were also two women inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in 2025. The first is former England wicketkeeper/batter Sarah Taylor, who was one of the first prolific franchise cricketers in women’s cricket and played in 126 ODIs and 90 T20Is.
The second woman and the final member of this class is former Pakistan Women’s Cricket team captain and bowler Sana Mir. One of the most influential female cricketers from Asia, Sana captained the team as they rose in international rankings and is the national team’s highest wicket taker in ODIs.
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