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Test retirement and 2015 World cup

Dhoni played his last series during India's tour of Australia in December 2014.
Following the third Test in Melbourne, Dhoni announced his retirement from the
format.[86] In his last test, he effected nine dismissals (eight catches and a stumping),
and in the process, went past Kumar Sangakkara's record for most stumpings in
international cricket and also set a record for effecting the most dismissals in a
match by an Indian wicketkeeper until it was broken by Wriddhiman Saha in
2018.[87][88] In the Carlton Mid triangular series in Australia, India failed to win a single
match with Dhoni himself managing just 70 runs from three innings at an average of
23.34.[89]

During the 2015 Cricket World Cup, Dhoni became the first Indian captain to win all
group stage matches in a world cup.[90] In the match against Zimbabwe at Auckland,
he made 85 which was the highest score by an Indian captain in New Zealand. After
beating Bangladesh in the quarter finals, he became the third overall and the first
non-Australian captain to win 100 ODI matches.[91] India lost to eventual champions
Australia in the semi-finals with Dhoni having a good series, scoring 237 runs in six
innings at an average of 59.25 and a strike rate of 102.15 and thus, became only the
second Indian captain to have an average over 50 and strike rate over 100 in a
particular season of the World Cup.[92][93]

Final years and retirement


Dhoni led India to victory in the 2016 Asia Cup, where India remained
unbeaten.[94] Dhoni stepped down as the captain of India in January 2017, ahead of
the ODI series at home against England.[95] In the second game of the series, he
scored 134 off 122 balls, his tenth century in ODIs and his first in over three
years.[96] He was named as a wicket-keeper of the 'Team of the Tournament' at
the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy in which India finished as runners-up.[97][98] In August
2017, during the fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka in Colombo, he became the
first wicket-keeper to effect 100 stumpings in ODIs when he stumped Akila
Dananjaya off Yuzvendra Chahal.[99] He reached the milestone of effecting 400
dismissals in ODIs in February 2018, following the stumping of Aiden Markram in the
third ODI of the South Africa tour.[100]

Though, he had a relatively mediocre series scoring 79 runs in two innings at a strike
rate of 63.20 during India's 2018 tour of England, he went past 10,000 ODI runs,
becoming the fourth Indian and twelfth overall to do so.[101][102][103] In the 2018 Asia
Cup title winning campaign, he scored just 77 runs in four innings at an average of
19.25.[104][105] While captaining in the group stage match against Afghanistan due to
regular captain Rohit Sharma being unavailable, Dhoni became the first cricketer to
lead India 200 times in ODIs.[106] Dhoni aggregated 50 runs from three innings in
the home series against West Indies.[107][108] In the series, he effected the fastest
stumping in the history of cricket, clocked at 0.08 seconds, when dismissing Keemo
Paul.[109][110]

Dhoni was not selected for the T20I squad for the series that followed and
the Australia tour later that season.[111] However, he was included in the squad for the
ODI series in Australia.[112] In the three-match series, Dhoni scored half-centuries in
all three games with the latter two resulting in wins, helping India secure a 2–1 series
victory, their first in a bilateral series on Australian soil and was named player of the
series while also becoming the fourth Indian to score more than 1,000 ODI runs in
Australia.[113] In April 2019, he was named in India's squad for the 2019 Cricket World
Cup.[114][115] On 9 July 2019, Dhoni played in his 350th and final ODI in the semi-final
loss against New Zealand.[116] Dhoni announced his retirement from international
cricket on 15 August 2020 as he had not played any international cricket since
India's loss in the 2019 World Cup semi-final.[117]

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