Mumbai ODI: MS Dhoni falls a run short to enter 10k ODI club for India

The 37-year-old cricketer managed to score 23 runs off 15 balls in an innings comprising of two boundaries.

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Indian wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni narrowly missed out on reaching the milestone of 10,000 ODI runs while representing India by just one run in the fourth One-Day International (ODI) on Monday against the West Indies at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. 

Dhoni had accumulated 9,976 runs while representing India in the ODI format and needed 24 more to cross 10,000 runs before the clash. The 37-year-old cricketer managed to score just 23 runs off 15 balls in an innings comprising of two boundaries during the Mumbai ODI falling short by one run.     

However, India managed to post a total of 377/5 within the allotted 50 overs, despite Dhoni's failure, on the back of an exciting 162 off 137 deliveries by opener Rohit Sharma and a 100 off 81 deliveries by middle-order batsman Ambati Rayadu.    

Dhoni has merely managed to score 252 runs in 12 innings, at an average of just over 25 so far in 2018. He was also dropped recently from the squads for the T20I series against West Indies and away series against Australia. 

The ex-Indian skipper has accumulated 10,173 runs so far in the 50-over format of the game which includes the 174 runs scored while representing the Asia XI back in 2007 against the Africa XI in a 3-match series.   

Dhoni will be eager to deliver an improved performance in the last ODI against the West Indies at Thiruvananthapuram.