MS Dhoni, who captained India to triumph in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, has reported his retirement from worldwide cricket. 

The 39-year-old reported his choice in an Instagram post, saying: "Much obliged. Much obliged for ur love and backing all through. From 1929 hrs think about me as Resigned." 

  Dhoni played 90 Test matches for India, averaging 38.09 and scoring six hundreds, preceding resigning from the longest organization in 2014. 


He is India's best chief in constrained over internationals, having won three ICC trophies - the 2007 World T20, that 2011 World Cup win on home soil and the 2013 Bosses Trophy. 


Dhoni played an amazing 350 ODIs, averaging 50.57 and scoring 10 centuries, with his 10,733 runs setting him fifth on India's rundown ever run-scorers, behind just Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid.