Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Stephen Fleming
In the first match of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), there will be a clash between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Just before this match, the fans got a big shock when Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who had won the title of Chennai team under his captaincy in the last season, left the captaincy. After this, CSK has entrusted this responsibility to Ruturaj Gaikwad for the upcoming season. Gaikwad has so far played 52 matches for the Chennai team, in which he has impressed everyone with his performance as an opening batsman. At the same time, after this decision of Dhoni, fans are also doubtful about him playing the entire season, regarding which Chennai Super Kings team head coach Stephen Fleming has completely clarified the situation in his statement.
Hopefully Dhoni will play the entire season
Stephen Fleming, in the press conference held before the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, 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 looks much better fit 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, his desire to perform better is visible this time too, which is a very good thing for us.
Last season we were not ready to change the captain
Earlier, Mahendra Singh Dhoni had suddenly left the captaincy before the start of the IPL season played in 2022, 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 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 prepare young players for this role. We were fully prepared for a change of captain this time.
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