Every time a brand new season of the Indian Premier League season comes round today, one of many greatest questions on everybody’s lips is that if it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s final season within the league. 2024 hasn’t been any completely different with rumours getting intensified after the Indian icon handed on the Chennai Tremendous Kings captaincy baton to Ruturaj Gaikwad final month.
Nevertheless, if you happen to ask Suresh Raina and RP Singh, they’d most likely say the opposite. When Raina was requested on Jio Cinemas if Dhoni would proceed taking part in after this season’s IPL, he responded with one phrase, “Khelenge” (He’ll play). “It doesn’t look like this can be his final season,” RP would add in the identical present.
Within the final match in opposition to Mumbai Indians in Wankhede final Sunday, Dhoni turned again the clock; a mild reminder of his six-hitting nous within the demise overs of an innings. However whereas his quickfire 37 in opposition to the Delhi Capitals in Vizag might not have turned the destiny in his aspect’s favor, Sunday was something however.
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Within the massive ticket contest in opposition to fellow five-time IPL winners MI, for the Chennai Tremendous Kings, got here a hattrick of sixes within the last over that helped the defending champions breach the 200 run mark. Coming in to bat at six, Dhoni plundered three maximums off the 4 deliveries he confronted – all off Mumbai Indians’ skipper Hardik Pandya’s bowling.
Within the six video games CSK have performed thus far, Dhoni has 59 runs to his identify – 57 off which have come off two innings (Delhi and Mumbai). In CSK’s earlier sport – a house win in opposition to KKR – the previous skipper had arrived to bat at 5, elevating speculations a couple of everlasting promotion within the batting order.
Having scored in entry of 400 runs within the 2018 and 2019 season, Dhoni hasn’t been in a position to cross the 250 mark in any of the next seasons and has batted decrease down the order.
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