Ms. Dhoni
IPL 2024 starts on Friday. Meanwhile, Chennai Super Kings have given fans a major shock with a shocking decision. Like every season, the captains of all teams do a photoshoot with the trophy just before the start of the IPL. The same thing happened this season when the captains of all ten teams were invited to a photo shoot. During this time, Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni was not seen in this picture. The team’s young opening batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad was sent in his place. It has now been clarified from the CSK side that Gaikwad will be the captain of the team this season.
Dhoni left the captaincy
After the captain’s photoshoot with the IPL trophy, as soon as the pictures of IPL were shared after seeing Ruturaj Gaikwad in them, fans had suspected that he would be the captain of the team this season but after a short while Chennai Super Kings It was also said that MS Dhoni has handed over his captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad. With the dismissal of MS Dhoni from the captaincy, a golden era of the IPL also came to an end. MS Dhoni was the most successful captain in the IPL. Under his captaincy, Chennai Super Kings dominated major tournaments like IPL. Under the captaincy of MS, CSK won a total of five IPL titles. Where his team became champions just last season.
Will this be Mahi’s last season?
As soon as MS Dhoni left the captaincy, fans also realized that this would be MS Dhoni’s last season in the IPL. In fact, MS Dhoni has turned 42 years old. Even during the last IPL season, MS Dhoni struggled a lot. Even then it looked like MS Dhoni would quit this season but Mahi had said after the last game that this was the right time to quit IPL but he would play for the fans for at least one more season. In such a situation, to fulfill his promise to the fans, Dhoni decided to play this season, not as a captain but as a player. Under Dhoni’s captaincy, Chennai Super Kings won the IPL title in 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023.
Gaikwad’s performance in IPL
Ruturaj Gaikwad was included in their squad for the first time in the IPL during the 2019 auction by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 20 lakh, but did not get a chance to make his IPL debut in 2019. The next season i.e. 2020, MS Dhoni gave him a chance and since then he hasn’t looked back once. Gaikwad also won the Orange Cap in IPL 2021 with 635 runs. He has played a total of 52 matches in the IPL. There he scored 1797 runs at an average of 39.07. Gaikwad is also the white-ball captain of Maharashtra in domestic cricket. In such a situation, one is confident that CSK has made the right decision considering its future plans.
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