MS Dhoni trophies: the full list of everything he has won

MS Dhoni’s trophy cabinet has not grown since May 2023, and that is not a criticism — it is the shape of the story. He won almost everything the game offers, and the last of it, a fifth IPL title with Chennai Super Kings, arrived in a final he saw out at the age of 41.

Three years on he is 44, he did not bat in a single match of IPL 2026, and he still has not said whether he is finished. Below is the complete list of what he has won, as captain and as a player, the individual honours that sit alongside it, and a straight answer to the question most people are actually here for: has he retired?

MS Dhoni trophies: the full list

Trophy	Times won	Years
ICC World T20	1	2007
ICC Cricket World Cup	1	2011
ICC Champions Trophy	1	2013
ICC ODI Championship Shield	1	2013
ICC Test mace	2	2010, 2011
Asia Cup	2	2010, 2016
Border-Gavaskar Trophy	3	2008-09, 2010, 2012-13
CB Series	1	2008
IPL	5	2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023
Champions League T20	2	2010, 2014

Every trophy on that list was won with Dhoni as captain, which is the detail that makes the cabinet unusual. Plenty of players have won more medals; almost nobody has won this many while also picking the team, setting the fields and keeping wicket.

The three ICC trophies no other captain has completed

Dhoni is the only captain in the history of the game to have won all three major ICC white-ball titles. He did it inside six years, and each one came in a different country.

Tournament	Year	Final
ICC World T20	2007	Beat Pakistan in Johannesburg
ICC Cricket World Cup	2011	Beat Sri Lanka in Mumbai
ICC Champions Trophy	2013	Beat England at Edgbaston

The 2007 World T20 was his first major assignment in charge, handed to a 26-year-old leading a squad most of India’s senior batsmen had skipped. The 2011 final is the one that plays on a loop — Dhoni promoted himself above an in-form Yuvraj Singh, finished unbeaten on 91 and won the man-of-the-match award. The 2013 Champions Trophy, a rain-shortened 20-over final at Edgbaston, completed the set.

Dhoni’s other trophies with India

Away from the three headline events, five more strands of silverware belong to his captaincy.

The ICC Test mace, 2010 and 2011. Until 2019 the mace went to whichever side sat top of the Test rankings on the 1 April cut-off, and India got there in December 2009 and stayed for close to two years. Those are the first two of India’s five — the full ICC Test mace winners list sets out how the trophy has changed hands since.

The ICC ODI Championship Shield, 2013. The 50-over equivalent of the mace, and less remembered than it should be. Dhoni collected it in Cardiff in June 2013 along with a cheque for US$175,000, for finishing top of the ODI table on the 1 April cut-off. It was the first time India had managed it since the ranking system began in 2002.

The Asia Cup, 2010 and 2016. Two titles in two formats — the 50-over edition in Dambulla and the T20 edition in Bangladesh.

The Border-Gavaskar Trophy, three times. Worth a footnote for accuracy: he did not start the first of them as captain. Anil Kumble retired from Test cricket midway through the 2008-09 series against Australia and Dhoni took over for the final Test at Nagpur, which India won to take the rubber 2-0. He then led the 2010 and 2012-13 wins outright.

Add the 2008 CB Series in Australia, where India beat the hosts in a best-of-three finals series, and the international list is complete.

MS Dhoni’s IPL trophies with Chennai Super Kings

Five IPL titles — 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023 — which is the joint-most by any franchise, level with Mumbai Indians. Add the two Champions League T20 titles from 2010 and 2014 and CSK’s yellow shelf is as full as anyone’s.

Dhoni has captained more IPL matches than anyone else and won more of them than any other captain. He has also reached the final ten times: five won, five lost. That last number is the one that explains CSK better than the trophy count does — over a decade and a half they reached the last match of the season two years in every three.

What has happened since the last trophy

The 2023 title is where most versions of this list stop, so here is the part that has come after it. CSK have missed the playoffs in all three seasons since.

Season	CSK	Champions
IPL 2024	Fifth — 14 points, out on net run rate	Kolkata Knight Riders
IPL 2025	Missed the playoffs, eliminated with games to spare	Royal Challengers Bengaluru
IPL 2026	Seventh — six wins in 14	Royal Challengers Bengaluru

The captaincy moved around in that stretch too. Dhoni handed the job to Ruturaj Gaikwad before IPL 2024, took it back during 2025 when Gaikwad was ruled out injured, and Gaikwad returned to it for 2026.

MS Dhoni’s individual awards and honours

Award	Year
ICC ODI Player of the Year	2008, 2009
ICC World ODI XI	2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award	2008
Padma Shri	2009
Padma Bhushan	2018
ICC ODI Team of the Decade	2020
ICC T20I Team of the Decade	2020
ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade	2020
ICC Hall of Fame	2025

The Hall of Fame induction is the one addition since he stopped playing for India. It came in 2025 at a ceremony in London, in a class that also included Hashim Amla, Matthew Hayden, Graeme Smith, Daniel Vettori, Sana Mir and Sarah Taylor.

His playing record behind all of it: 17,266 international runs in 538 matches, with 16 hundreds and 108 fifties, plus a set of wicketkeeping numbers that are covered in full in our rundown of MS Dhoni’s cricket records.

Has MS Dhoni retired?

From international cricket, yes — he announced it on 15 August 2020, with an Instagram post and no press conference, which was entirely in character.

From the IPL, no. Not officially, and this is where a lot of pages get ahead of themselves. He was retained by CSK for the 2026 season as an uncapped player on ₹4 crore, then picked up a calf strain in the pre-season camp in March and never played a game. A thumb problem stretched the rehab out until the season was gone. After CSK’s final home fixture at Chepauk in May he took a lap of honour, which the country read as a goodbye — but he did not say it was one, and he has not said anything since.

That is his pattern. For five seasons running his answer at the end of a campaign has been that he will see how the body feels closer to the next one. Until CSK’s retention list for 2027 is published, everything else is inference.

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