NEW DELHI: Cricket fans have good news: MS Dhoni, the legendary Indian player and captain of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), will participate in the Indian Premier League in 2024. While teams revealed their lists of players who were retained and released ahead of the next month’s mini-auction, the reigning champions, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), revealed their lineup. Notably, CSK’s list contained the’retained’ section, which included the esteemed batsman and wicketkeeper, MS Dhoni. The defending champions, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), also revealed their list, and in the’retained’ section was the legendary wicketkeeper-batter. CSK tweeted from their X (previously Twitter) handle, “2024 – A Gift from Thala! “, confirming that MS will appear in the upcoming season. “Initiate the whistles!”Fans were curious about Dhoni’s IPL 2024 status because he missed the previous season due to a knee injury. Additionally, he had a successful knee surgery performed right after the season earlier this year. It was also speculated that Dhoni’s final IPL season would be the previous one. However, MS had stated in the post-game speech after his team’s fifth championship victory earlier this year, “If you circumstantialy if you see it is the best time to announce the retirement.” Saying “thank you” and “retire” is the easy part for me. However, putting in a full nine months of work and trying to play in another IPL season is a difficult task.The body must remain sturdy. That would be a gift for them to play one more season, though, given the amount of love I have received from CSK fans. I have to take care of them because of the way they have expressed their love and emotion.” In 12 innings during the 2023 IPL, MS Dhoni scored 104 runs. With a strike rate of more than 182, he scored these runs at an average of 26. This season, his best score was 32*. His trademark big sixes were the source of many of his runs. Dhoni has amassed 5,082 runs at an average of 38.79 and a strike rate of over 135 in 250 IPL games. He has also amassed 24 half-centuries and a career-best score of 84*.His run total ranks him seventh in IPL history. Notably, the champion Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have released a number of players ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2019. These players include South African all-rounder Dwaine Pretorious, New Zealand pacer Kyle Jamieson, and England all-rounder Ben Stokes. Top players like Devon Conway of New Zealand, Moeen Ali of England, skipper MS Dhoni, young batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana and Maheesh Theekshana of Sri Lanka, and others have remained with CSK. They will have a purse of Rs 32.1 crores going into the IPL auction.Ben Stokes, Dwaine Pretorius, Bhagath Varma, Sisanda Magala, Akash Singh, Kyle Jamieson, Ambati Rayudu (retired), and Subhranshu Senapati are among the players who were released. Ajinkya Rahane, Deepak Chahar, Maheesh Theekshana, Mukesh Choudhary, Mitchell Santner, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Matheesha Pathirana, Tushar Deshpande, Prashant Solanki, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, and Ajay Mandal are among the players who have been retained in the squad.
