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JE Sports Desk: Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has always enjoyed a special fan following wherever he travels around the world. The wicketkeeper batter, who recently turned 42, received a rousing welcome from fans at Chennai airport as the Chennai Super Kings skipper arrived in the city for the trailer launch of his first entertainment production movie ‘LGM’ (Let’s Get Married).

LGM is Dhoni Entertainment Pvt Ltd's first movie which features Harish Kalyan, Ivana, Nadhiya, Yogi Babu and Mirchi Vijay. Dhoni along with his wife Sakshi arrived in Chennai on Sunday to attend the trailer launch of their production's first Tamil movie. The couple were showered with flowers upon coming out of the airport to attend film-related programs.

Earlier, Dhoni celebrated his birthday on Friday in a lowkey manner as fans went gaga to wish 'Thala' on his special day. Social media was flooded with a plethora of wishes for 'captain cool'.

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Dhoni posted a video of him celebrating his birthday with his dogs on Instagram which received a lot of love and appreciation on the photo-video sharing app.

Dhoni has one of the most inspiring journeys in sports history. From working as a ticket collector at a railway station, he transformed into India's biggest trophy collector, leading the team to ICC T20 World Cup 2007, ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and ICC Champions Trophy 2013 as skipper. He made his international debut in 2004 and made a name for himself as a ferocious hitter of the cricket ball, but mellowed down with time to a finisher who would guide his team to wins with his calculated aggression and amazing tactics.

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Dhoni's strongest format was the ODIs. In 350 ODIs, he scored 10,773 runs at an average of 50.57. He scored 10 centuries and 73 fifties for India, with the best score of 183*. He is India's fifth-highest scorer in ODIs (with Sachin Tendulkar at the top with 18,426 runs). He is also the 11th most successful ODI batter of all time. The fact that he managed to score 10,000-plus runs at an average of over 50 while coming down the order makes his statistics even more astonishing. He led India in 200 ODI matches, winning 110, losing 74. Five matches were tied while 11 failed to produce a result, he has a win percentage of 55.

With 229 sixes, he is the fifth-highest six-hitter of all time and also has the second-highest sixes by an Indian next to Rohit Sharma (275 sixes). He is also the sixth-fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs, doing so in 273 innings.

(With ANI inputs)

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