The most amazing knocks of MS Dhoni

Unbeaten 66 off just 19 balls! 8 sixes. 331.57 -- the highest strike rate in the history of CLT20. MSD's unbelievable innings is another addition in the growing list of blazing knocks from the skipper. Scroll down to read some of MSD's best knocks in T20 and 50-over cricket

You can't ride on luck forever in cricket. It is the confidence, and at times the audacity of MS Dhoni that intimidates opponents. He makes it look easy and casual. Over the years, that has become a vintage Dhoni factor and that was what buried Hyderabad in Ranchi on Thursday.

Dhoni's pyrotechnics broke the spirits of the Sunrisers bowlers with his ruthless batting display, here on Thursday.

Such was the brutality as neither speed nor spin provided any challenge to Dhoni as he decorated his 19-ball knock with an astonishing eight sixes.

There was no mistaking the impact Dhoni's arrival had on the innings and no one could better understand it than Sri Lankan all-rounder Thisara Perera, who was smashed for five huge sixes in the 18th over.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni produced a belligerent unbeaten knock of 63 as Chennai Super Kings toyed with a listless Sunrisers Hyderabad bowling attack to post a massive 202 for four in their Champions League T20 

Dhoni, in the process, also struck the fastest fifty in the history of the Champions League, reaching the landmark in just 16 balls and surpassing West Indian Kieron Pollard's record (50 off 18 balls).

Dhoni played a leader's innings of the finest order and, together with Raina, put on a 60-run partnership in just 23 balls for the fourth wicket.

This is not the first time Dhoni has gone bang bang in cricket, we've put together some of his best knocks in 20-over and 50-over cricket.