The only legend to play in the 17th season on the same day as his IPL debut!
The only legend to play in the 17th season on the same day as his IPL debut!CSK wicketkeeper dhoni has got the honor of being the legend who played in the 17th year on the same day he made his debut in IPL cricket in 2008. The IPL season was started for the first time in 2008. The first match of the season was played on 18th April. In this, RCB and KKR teams clashed. Subsequently, the 2nd match was held on 19th April. In this, punjab Kings and chennai Super Kings clashed. dhoni, the captain of the CSK team, made his debut in IPL cricket through this match. This is his first IPL match. In this, he was dismissed for 2 runs.In this match, CSK scored 240 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Later, the punjab team scored 207/4 and lost by 33 runs. It was in this situation that after 17 years, dhoni made his debut on april 19, the same day he played for CSK and scored 28 runs. Apart from dhoni, no other CSK player has played IPL cricket on the same day as his debut. So far, dhoni has played 257 IPL matches and has accumulated a total of 5169 runs. This includes 24 fifties. It is noteworthy that he scored the maximum 84 runs.Chennai Super Kings and lucknow Super Giants clashed in the 34th league match of the IPL 2024 cricket series. In this, the captain of the lucknow team won the toss and chose to bowl. Accordingly, CSK batted first and scored 176 runs. Chasing a tough target, KL rahul and Quinta de Kock both played aggressively from the start and scored runs. All CSK's plans to separate the pair went in vain. Finally, Mushtabijur rahman separated the couple. The pair put on 134 runs for the first wicket. In this, quinton de kock was dismissed for 54 runs. Next captain KL rahul scored 82 runs in 53 balls including 9 fours and 3 sixes. After that, Nicholas Pooran and Marcus Stoinis combined to take the team to victory. Finally, lucknow Supergiants lost 2 wickets in the 19th over and scored 180 runs to win by 8 wickets.