Whereas Chennai Tremendous Kings face Kolkata Knight Riders in a house fixture at Chepauk on Friday night, it would additionally see captain MS Dhoni dealing with his long-time team-mate at CSK Dwayne Bravo, who’s now the bowling coach of the Knight Riders. Whereas Bravo had earlier performed for the Chennai franchise in two stints, first from 2011 to 2015 and second from 2018 to 2022, the West Indian had labored as CSK bowling coach from 2023 to 2024 earlier than becoming a member of Knight Riders as their bowling coach. A day previous to the conflict, Bravo met Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja on the CSK nets and Dhoni jokingly known as the West Indian a ‘Traitor’ earlier than the 2 met.
“The traitor is right here,” Dhoni was heard saying in a video uploaded by the CSK social media handles on the match day. Within the video, Bravo first meets Jadeja earlier than strolling to Dhoni, who’s batting within the nets. As Bravo comes nearer to the nets, Dhoni is heard saying the phrase earlier than the 2 embrace one another and have snicker.
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Bravo, who had performed the primary three seasons for Mumbai Indians, was first picked up by CSK in 2011 earlier than he was picked up by Gujarat Lions within the IPL public sale in 2016. CSK had roped in Bravo once more in 2018 after which once more retained him within the 2019 and 2022 mega public sale. The West Indian all-rounder, who made 1550 runs and picked up 163 wickets in 161 matches in his IPL profession, had joined as Knight Riders bowling coach final yr. With two wins out of 5 matches, Knight Riders are at the moment positioned on the sixth spot within the factors desk. Bravo had earlier urged the group’s batsmen to use themselves a bit extra. “We have now an aggressive batting line-up, however that’s not cricket. My message to the batters is that the fundamentals of the sport are nonetheless required. These guys want to use themselves a bit extra, and I feel they perceive that.” Bravo had stated earlier this month.
Dhoni, in the meantime will probably be captaining CSK after Ruturaj Gaikwad was sidelined from the IP as a result of an harm. “He (Dhoni) had no hesitation to step up and assist information us out of this if we will. In order that was by no means a doubt,” CSK head coach Stephen Fleming had informed the media on Thursday.