Suresh Raina is known to have been a hardcore MS Dhoni supporter and while switching alliance according to the need of the hour isn’t something new in team sports, Raina has always made it clear that Dhoni is one cricketer who has inspired him time and again. And with the former India skipper set to play his 300th ODI game at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Thursday, Raina decided to personally wish the stumper.

Taking to Twitter, Raina wrote: “The iconic wicketkeeper-batsman @msdhoni gets ready for his 300th ODI match! My wishes to the man who always inspires me!

#INDvsSL #Dhoni300”

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Dhoni will be cynosure of all eyes as he gears up for his 300th ODI with a marauding India ready to tighten the noose around beleaguered Sri Lanka in the penultimate encounter of the five-match series, here on Thursday.

And there is a good opportunity for the former India captain to come up with a memorable performance in his milestone match since Sri Lanka have hardly come across as respectable rivals in the lop-sided series.

Considered one of the greatest finishers in 50-over cricket, Dhoni will join India's elite 'Club 300', which has Sachin Tendulkar (463), Rahul Dravid (344), Mohammed Azharuddin (334), Sourav Ganguly (311) and Yuvraj Singh (304).

Dhoni should be in fine fettle after playing a significant role in bailing out the team in back-to-back tricky chases against the hosts, slowly falling apart.

The unbeaten knocks of 45 and 67 under pressure is a proof that he is still not finished and his eyes are firmly set on the 50-over World Cup of 2019.

From being a world class finisher to playing a second fiddle to Rohit Sharmas and Bhuvneshwar Kumars, Dhoni has added another dimension to his game.

Although one can't dismiss the fact that a rag-tag Sri Lankan bowling attack, save mystery spinner Akila Dananjaya, has failed to keep up the pressure on Dhoni and Co. after making initial inroads.

MS Dhoni Set to Break Two World Records in 300th ODI

Even as MS Dhoni prepares to play his 300th game for India on Thursday August 31,2017, two world records await to be broken by the Man with the Midas touch.

While Dhoni needs one more stumping to rewrite the record for maximum stumpings — currently both Kumar Sangakkara and him stand on 99 — the former skipper needs one more unbeaten innings to register the maximum unbeaten innings in ODIs. At present, he stands at 72 unbeaten innings with Shaun Pollock and Chaminda Vaas

In fact, MS Dhoni became the fourth highest run-getter for India in ODIs during the course of his innings against Sri Lanka in the third ODI. Dhoni now has 9608 runs from 296 games. Only Sachin Tendulkar (18,426), Sourav Ganguly (11,221) and Rahul Dravid (10,768) are now ahead of him on this elite list.

Dhoni scored an unbeaten 67 off 86 balls to help India seal the ODI series. Dhoni's average and strike-rate are the highest though among the top 5 ODI batsman for India, with the wicket-keeper averaging 51.55 and having a strike-rate of 87.99. He has also played only 296 ODIs, as compared to 340 and 308 for Dravid and Ganguly respectively.

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