Indian Cricket News: 4 players who played more than 50 matches in every format

Playing any sports as a profession is not a child's play. It requires extreme dedication, hard work, following strict fitness and diet, confidence, and whatnot. Only a few players with perfect fitness and strength can continue their careers for years and decades. In today's Indian Cricket News, only 4 Indian players played 50+ matches in all the 3 formats of cricket. Let's take a quick glimpse at the cricketers to do so.

1. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

The former Indian Captain made his international cricket debut on 2nd December 2004 with an ODI match against Bangladesh. Soon, he got a call to join the test team on 2nd December 2005, followed by joining the T20I team on 1st December 2006. Captain Cool played in 90 test matches, 350 ODI matches, and 98 T20I matches. He aggregated 4876 runs in his Test career, 1077 runs in his ODI career, and lastly, 1617 runs in his T20I career. Dhoni took to social media to announce his retirement from international cricket on 15th August 2020. He definitely had a heavenly and marvelous international career of about 16 years.

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2. Virat Kohli

The King of Cricket, Virat Kohli proved himself to be an influential cricketer at all steps. Kohli began his journey in international cricket and joined the Indian cricket team in 2008. He started off debuting in the ODI team and played his first match on 18th August 2008 against Sri Lanka. After 2 years, he joined the T20I team on 12th June 2010 and played against Zimbabwe. Later on 20th June 2011, he made his debut in the Test team against West Indies. The Indian captain scored 7765 runs in his continuing test career. In ODI format, he scored 12169 runs in 245 matches, and lastly, in T20Is, he aggregated 3227 runs till now. We can surely count Kohli in the Indian squad in the upcoming years.

3. Ravindra Jadeja

Ravindra Jadeja is the third Indian cricketer to be a part of this Indian Cricket News. The all-rounder made his international debut in 2009 and is now a prominent part of the squad. Jadeja made his ODI and T20I debut within a span of 2 days on 8th February and 10th February 2009 respectively. His debut was against Sri Lanka. On 13th December 2012, he joined the Tes squad to play against England. Till today, he played in 56 Test matches, 168 ODI matches, and 55 T20I matches and aggregated 2145 runs, 2411 runs, and 256 runs respectively. Also, he picked up 227 Test wickets with a BBI of 7/48, 188 ODI wickets with a BBI of 5/36, and 46 T20I wickets with a BBI of 3/15. Like his teammate Virat Kohli, we can predict him in the squad in the upcoming years as well.

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4. Ravichandran Ashwin

The fourth Indian cricketer on this elite list is Ravichandran Ashwin with 50+ matches in the 3 formats of cricket. He started his journey by making an ODI debut on 5th June 2010 against Sri Lanka, then his T20I debut was on 12th June 2010 against Zimbabwe. Lastly, his Test debut was against West Indies on 6th November 2011. He is surely one of the biggest backbones of the Indian bowling lineup. Ashwin played in 79 Test matches and picked up 413 wickets with the Best Bowling in Innings (BBI) of 7/59. In ODIs, he played 111 matches and scalped 150 wickets with a BBI of 4/25. Lastly, he took 61 wickets in 51 T20I matches till now with a BBI of 4/80