Dhoni was not the first priority of chennai Super Kings..!?
Former CSK player badrinath said that chennai Super Kings would not consider bidding for any player other than ms dhoni in the first season of IPL. A player from delhi said that the chennai team made the first bid for dhoni because he wanted to play for Delhi. And who is the star player?
Every year IPL cricket festival is held on a grand scale. The indian Premier League (IPL) has successfully completed 17 seasons since 2008. The upcoming IPL 2025 18th season is about to start. The mega auction for this will start in two months. Many changes are expected to take place in this. Each team can bid for the best players to strengthen their squad.
Also, captains are likely to change in each team. royal challengers Bangalore, who have never won a trophy in this, have left faf du plessis and there is a possibility of appointing a new captain in his place. Also, lucknow Supergiants are also looking to change their captain. Along with this, there is talk in cricket circles that mumbai Indians, who are the richest franchisees, may also change their captain. Especially dhoni for CSK and rohit sharma for mumbai are successful captains in IPL. Both of them have made their teams champions five times each. dhoni, who has been the captain of CSK since 2008, stepped down from the captaincy of CSK before the 2024 IPL series.
Ruturaj Gaikwad has been appointed as CSK captain in his place. Under his leadership, chennai Super Kings finished 4th in the points table, winning 7 and losing 7 out of 14 matches played. The CSK franchise expressed a bit of disappointment as the expected results did not come under Ruthuraj's captaincy. The mega auction will be held before the upcoming IPL 2025 season. At such a time news has become viral on social media. That means that dhoni is not the first priority of CSK in the IPL auction. dhoni was auctioned by CSK for Rs 9.5 crore in the first season of IPL. dhoni is the most expensive player.
After that, in 2016 and 2017, he was banned from playing in CSK. dhoni captained only a few matches in 2022. But, in 2024, Ruthuraj Gaekwad was appointed as the captain of CSK. However, chennai Super Kings thought to get India's dashing opener virender sehwag in the first auction in the first season of IPL. However, virender sehwag is a cricketer from Delhi. He decided to play for Delhi. Former CSK player badrinath said that the chennai team had to make the first bid for Dhoni. Now his comments have gone viral.
Badrinath said "Late PV chandrasekhar played a key role in building the chennai Super Kings team in the early days. He selected him for the team. The CSK management told him that mahendra singh dhoni was selected and Sehwag was also selected. However, once he came to chennai, Srinivasan ( CSK owner) said that he liked delhi and wanted to play for Delhi. virender sehwag captained delhi Daredevils in the first season of IPL. After that, he played for the punjab Kings. Sehwag played 104 IPL matches from 2008 to 2015 and scored 2,728 runs. It has 2 centuries and 18 fifties. Also, Sehwag captained delhi and Kings XI punjab for 53 matches.