CSK official hints MS Dhoni not leaving: ‘Last game will be at Chepauk’

The Chennai Super Kings administration is assured that the 2021 IPL will not be going to be MS Dhoni’s swansong as a cricketer and the workforce captain would play at the very least yet another season earlier than waving goodbye in entrance of ‘home’ followers at Chepauk.
“I don’t think so,” mentioned a CSK insider, when requested if this IPL could possibly be Dhoni’s final as a cricketer. “Think he would like to play his last game at Chepauk, which is very likely,” he advised The Indian Express.
This follows combined indicators from the previous India captain over the past two days. On Tuesday, at an India Cements perform, Dhoni dropped a touch that he would proceed to steer CSK subsequent season as nicely. When requested by a fan, he had mentioned: “When it comes to the farewell, you can come and see me play for CSK and that can be my farewell game. So you will get the opportunity to bid me farewell. Hopefully, we will come to Chennai and play my last game over there and (I) can meet all the fans.”
On Thursday, nevertheless, earlier than CSK’s recreation towards Punjab Kings, when Star Sports commentator Danny Morrison requested Dhoni about his future plans on the toss, the CSK skipper replied: “You will see me in yellow next season but whether I will be playing for CSK you never know. There are a lot of uncertainties coming up; two new teams are coming… We don’t know what the retention rules are and so on.”
Two new groups shall be becoming a member of the IPL fold subsequent yr and a full public sale is scheduled. The IPL governing council would give you the retention coverage; what number of gamers every franchise can be allowed to retain, at what respective worth tags. According to a supply, Dhoni has stored the CSK administration within the loop about his future plans.
Dhoni retired from worldwide cricket on August 15 final yr however carried on as a CSK participant. However, as a batsman, he has been a pale shadow of his previous for the final couple of seasons. This yr significantly has been beneath par – 96 runs from 14 matches at 13.71, with a strike-rate of 95.04. His profession T20 strike-rate is 134.18. But he has but once more led his workforce to a different IPL Playoffs. Also, the 40-year-old has captained his workforce to 3 IPL titles.
Dhoni doesn’t have an employee-employer relationship along with his franchise. Last yr, throughout a dialog with this paper, CSK supremo and former BCCI president N Srinivasan spoke about the way it was fully upon Dhoni to resolve his keep as a CSK participant. “He can play for CSK as long as he wants,” Srinivasan had mentioned, including: “I don’t know how the bond between him and Tamil Nadu and Chennai developed. In the early seasons of the IPL, he would come, he would go (out) in his motorbike. People took to him. One of the reasons for CSK’s success under Dhoni is that he never thinks beyond the match. He never gets digressed.”