IPL 2024: Will MS Dhoni play the entire season of IPL 2024?

IPL 2024: Will MS Dhoni play the entire season of IPL 2024?: There will be a clash between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League. Just before this match, the fans got a big shock when Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who had led the Chennai team to the title in the last season, left the captaincy. After this, CSK has handed over this responsibility to Ruturaj Gaikwad for the upcoming season. Gaikwad has played 52 matches for the Chennai team so far, in which he has impressed everyone with his performance as an opening batsman. At the same time, after this decision of Dhoni, the fans are also doubtful about his playing the entire season, regarding which Chennai Super Kings team head coach Stephen Fleming has completely clarified the situation in his statement.

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Will Dhoni play the entire season?

In the press conference held before the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Stephen Fleming, while answering the question about Dhoni playing the entire season after his decision to step down from the captaincy, said that it is expected that Dhoni will play the entire season. He is looking much fitter this season than last season and I hope he will perform better this time. It's good to see him in pre-season. Last season he was troubled a lot because of his knee, but this time looking at him it seems that he is completely fit. Like always, this time also his desire to perform better is visible.

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We were not ready to change captain in IPL 2023

Before the start of the IPL season played in 2022, Mahendra Singh Dhoni suddenly left the captaincy, after which Jadeja was made the new captain of the team. However, due to the poor performance of the team, Dhoni took over the captaincy again in the middle of the season. Regarding this also, Fleming said in his statement that we were not ready to remove Dhoni from the captaincy in 2022. Last time when MS left the captaincy, we were surprised because we were not ready for it. Dhoni has a very good understanding of cricket and he wanted to groom young players for this role. We were fully prepared for a change of captain this time.

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