MS Dhoni will enter the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season as an icon of the game as a pure wicketkeeper-batsman, leaving behind his responsibility as the captain of Chennai Super Kings.
The way for Ruturaj Gaikwad to take up Dhoni’s decision to step down paved the role. Although this decision was expected by many, it still caused an explosion of emotions among fans. The situation in the dressing room of CSK was no different, as soon as ‘Thala’ revealed that he would step down from the captaincy, the eyes of the season became moist from the beginning.
There were a lot of emotions when Dhoni gave this news. There were a lot of tears. There was not a single dry eye in the dressing room. Everyone was emotional. We were not ready for the transfer of MS and change in leadership last time (when CSK changed the captain),” Fleming said.
“Congratulations also went to Ruturaj. He is not the most outspoken person, but he has the qualities to take us in the right direction.”
This is not the first time that Dhoni has left the captaincy of CSK, he had done the same two years ago when he was replaced by Ravindra Jadeja. The move, however, backfired and Dhoni was reinstated as captain midway through the campaign. Fleming is hoping for a different story this time, however.
The big thing a few years ago was that, as Fleming said, “we probably weren’t ready to step aside.” “And when will he jayega give us a leadership group? What it did was it shook up maybe or as a coach to see this possibility. And, it was almost unimaginable up to that stage, it sowed the seed but worked very hard. And that there is no secret leadership.”
CSK also did not have any different dressing room situation, everyone’s eyes became moist as ‘Thala’ revealed that he would be leaving the captaincy from the beginning of the season. Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming narrated the scene from the dressing room when MS Dhoni broke the news.
“Ruturaj Gaikwad” Wants To Nurture
Former India cricketer CD Gopinath on Thursday supported the Chennai Super Kings captain’s decision to hand over the reins to Ruturaj Gaikwad ahead of the Indian Premier League and step down as MS Dhoni.
The 94-year-old Gopinath, who made his Test debut with innings of 50 and 42 not out against England in 1951, said a wise move was to step down from the captaincy and groom a young star to take the team forward. “MS Dhoni is a very good leader of people and a balanced person.
His decision would have been to promote Ruturaj (Gaikwad) as captain because he will not be the captain he knows forever. ” want. And that he takes CSK to new heights as he wants,” Gopinath told PTI in the video.
He praised Dhoni’s captaincy and work done for Chennai in India and IPL.