Mahendra Singh Dhoni has stepped down as the captain of Chennai Super Kings with Ruturaj Gaikwad named the new skipper ahead of the new IPL season beginning on Friday. Dhoni, who led CSK to five IPL titles, will continue to be available as a player for the season and barring any last minute injury scars will keep wickets against Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Friday. Though the move to change captain on the eve of the season may come as a surprise, behind the scenes, the Super Kings have been grooming Gaikwad for the role. In 2022, days before the new season in Maharashtra, Dhoni had handed over the reins to Ravindra Jadeja. But the move backfired with Jadeja stepping down as captain mid-way through the season and Dhoni taking charge again.
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00:00 Mahendra Singh Dhoni has stepped down as the captain of the Chennai Super Kings with Rudraj
00:10 Kaikwad named the new skipper ahead of the new IPL season beginning on Friday.
00:15 Dhoni, who led CSK to five IPL titles, will continue to be available as a player for the
00:21 season and barring any last-minute injury scars, will keep wickets against Royal Challengers
00:27 Bengaluru on Friday.
00:29 Though the move to change captain on the eve of the season may come as a surprise, behind
00:34 the scenes, the Super Kings have been grooming Kaikwad for the role.
00:37 In 2022, days before the new season in Maharashtra, Dhoni had handed over the reins to Ravindra
00:43 Jadeja, but the move backfired, with Jadeja stepping down as captain midway through the
00:48 season and Dhoni taking charge again.
00:51 And ahead of the 2023 IPL, CSK got Ben Stokes as captaincy option, but with the all-rounders
00:56 struggling with fitness issues, they had turned their eyes on Kaikwad.
01:00 Though the 27-year-old isn't a regular member of the India set-up, the opener is admired
01:05 all through the franchisee set-up.
01:08 Having come into the CSK system in 2019, he made his debut in 2020, where he started with
01:13 three Man of the Match awards in three successful matches.
01:17 Then in 2021, as Chennai won the fourth title, he was the orange cap holder.
01:22 And since then, he has established himself as a regular member of the side.
01:26 During the 2022-23 domestic season, during Vijay Hazare trophy campaign, Kaikwad spent
01:32 considerable time with Dhoni, where the first steps were taken towards a change of guard.
01:37 That it happened in Ranchi without any media glare was a typical Dhoni style of passing
01:41 the baton, just like he did with Virat Kohli with the Indian team.
01:45 Having used the Maharashtra set-up to groom himself to the role, Kaikwad now steps into
01:50 Dhoni's shoes.
01:51 Meanwhile, MS Dhoni arrived in Chennai in the first week of March and has been leading
01:56 CSK's training sessions at the MH Dhamram Stadium, which hosts the IPL 2024 season opener
02:02 between CSK and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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