M S Dhoni surpass South African AB de Villiers in the record for most dismissals in T20Is.

MS Dhoni not just finished the India innings with a six off Sri Lanka skipper Thisara Perera, he also returned to register two stumpings and pick two catches to finish with 4 dismissals behind the wicket in the First T20 at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Wednesday Dec 20,2017.

 With this, his tally went up to 74 and he is now the wicket-keeper with the most dismissals in T20Is.


Dhoni needed two dismissals going into the game to equal AB de Villiers’s record of 72 dismissals from 78 games for South Africa. Dhoni now stands atop the list with 74 dismissals in 84 games with 47 catches and 27 stumpings.

M S Dhoni affected both the stumpings in Wednesday’s opening T20I against Sri Lanka off Yuzvendra Chahal’s bowling.