MS Dhoni Completes 5000 IPL Runs As Wicketkeeper

MS Dhoni reached a landmark milestone against LSG on April 19.

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The CSK legend played a fine knock of 28 runs off 9 balls.

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Dhoni’s blistering knock saw him surpass AB de Villiers as the 6th highest run scorer in IPL.

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Dhoni also reached 5000 runs in the IPL as a wicketkeeper.

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He has so far scored 5169 runs in 257 IPL matches.

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He scored 5051 of those runs as a wicketkeeper.

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Dinesh Karthik follows Dhoni in 2nd place with 4369 runs in IPL as wicketkeeper.

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In 3rd position, we have Robin Uthappa who scored 3011 runs in 114 matches.

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DC skipper Rishabh Pant comes next with 2850 runs in 95 matches.

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South Africa’s Quinton de Kock rounds off the top-five chart with 2812 runs in 90 caps.

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