IPL 2024 / Big announcement of CSK, this player will be the captain in place of Dhoni

IPL 2024: Starting from Friday. Meanwhile, Chennai Super Kings has given a big shock to the fans by taking a shocking decision. Actually, like every season, just before the start of IPL, the captains of all the teams do a photoshoot with the trophy. Same thing happened this season too, where the captains of all the 10 teams were called for a photoshoot. During this time, Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni was not seen in this picture. The team's young opening batsman Ruturaj Gaikwad was sent in his place. It has now been made clear from CSK side that Gaikwad will captain the team this season.

Dhoni left the captaincy

After the captain's photoshoot with the IPL trophy, as soon as the pictures were shared by IPL, after seeing Ruturaj Gaikwad in it, the fans had guessed that he will be the captain of the team this season, but after a short while, Chennai Super Kings It was also said that MS Dhoni has handed over his captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad. With the removal of MS Dhoni from the captaincy, a golden era of IPL also came to an end. MS Dhoni was the most successful captain of IPL. Where under his captaincy, Chennai Super Kings ruled big tournaments like IPL. Under the captaincy of MS, CSK won a total of five IPL titles. Where his team became champion only last season.

Will this be Mahi's last season?

As soon as MS Dhoni left the captaincy, fans also realized that this would be MS Dhoni's last season in IPL. Actually MS Dhoni has turned 42 years old. Even during the last IPL season, MS Dhoni was seen in a lot of trouble. Even at that time, it seemed that MS Dhoni would retire this season, but Mahi had said after the final match that this is the right time to leave IPL, but he will play at least one more season for the fans. In such a situation, to fulfill his promise to the fans, Dhoni decided to play this season, but not as a captain but as a player. Under the captaincy of Dhoni, Chennai Super Kings won the IPL title in the years 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023.

Gaikwad's performance in IPL

Ruturaj Gaikwad was included in their squad for the first time in IPL during the 2019 auction by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 20 lakh, but he did not get a chance to make his IPL debut in 2019. In the next season i.e. the year 2020, MS Dhoni gave him a chance and since then he did not look back even once. Gaikwad also won the Orange Cap in IPL 2021 with 635 runs. He has played a total of 52 matches in IPL. Where he has scored 1797 runs at an average of 39.07. Gaikwad is also the white ball captain of Maharashtra in domestic cricket. In such a situation, it is believed that CSK has taken the right decision considering its future plans.