The 1983 World Cup winning captain, Kapil Dev feels that it’ll be ‘impossible’ for MS Dhoni to perform every in every IPL if doesn’t play enough first class cricket.
This is for the first time in the history of IPL when Chennai Super Kings didn’t qualify for the playoffs. A large portion of Chennai’s strength was always dependent on MS Dhoni’s finishing. However, Dhoni could only manage to score 200 runs in 14 games with a strike rate of just 116.
Last time Dhoni was seen in a cricket match was Vs New Zealand in the World Cup. Thus, he didn’t play a single match in more than a year. Thus, he didn’t have enough match practice before IPL.
“If Dhoni decides on playing only IPL every year, then it’s impossible for him to perform. It’s not a good thing to talk about age but at his age, the more he plays, the more his body will be tuned” – Kapil Dev said in a recent interview”.
Kapil Dev further added, “If you don’t play any cricket for ten months a year and suddenly play IPL, you can see what happened. You can always have a season up or down if you have played so much cricket. It has happened to someone like Chris Gayle also”.
Kapil Dev also suggested Dhoni to play domestic cricket once again. “He should go back to first-class cricket (domestic List A and T20) and play there”.