Xtra Time Web Desk: Good news for all MS Dhoni fans. The talisman will continue to lead Chennai Super Kings in the next edition of Indian Premier League (IPL 2021), despite failing to make it to the playoffs. CSK was the first team to be eliminated from the cash rich league this season in UAE. In fact this has so happened for the first time in the history of IPL.
Despite of their worst ever performance, CEO of CSK, Kasi Viswanathan declared in an interview to TOI that Dhoni will continue to lead the team in IPL 2021.
“Yes, definitely. I am very confident that Dhoni will lead CSK in 2021. He has won three titles for us in the IPL. This is the first year we have not qualified for the playoffs. No other team has done that. One bad year does not mean we will have to change everything,” Viswanathan told TOI
Not only CSK but Dhoni himself has been below-par on the field. In 12 matches this season, he has scored 199 runs at a strike rate of just 118.45. Although the 2021 IPL season is just six months away, the fact that Dhoni is 39 and past his prime means fingers are pointed on his personal form and future as well. But according to CSK CEO, team just got hit by too many bad things at the same time which pegged them back.
“We didn’t play to our potential this season. We lost games that we should have won. That pushed us back. The withdrawals of Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh coupled with Covid cases in the camp meant that the balance of the side was upset,” Mr Viswanathan was quoted by TOI.