IPL 2023: Not MS Dhoni! CSK wanted to buy THIS marquee Indian player in inaugural auction
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MS Dhoni remains the face of Chennai Super Kings (CSK). However, he wasn't the team owners' first-choice in the inaugural auction.
MS Dhoni will be seen in action on the 22-yard cricket strip in the forthcoming IPL 2023 edition, which kicks off on March 31. Dhoni remains a big name in world cricket despite hanging up his boots at the highest level in mid-2020, with a stellar career with over 10,000 runs in ODIs, close to 5,000 Test runs, 634 catches, 195 stumpings and leading India to all three major ICC titles.
Dhoni will lead the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 16. CSK is a huge brand and a major credit of the franchise's success goes to the former Indian captain. He has been associated with the Yellow Army since the inaugural season, in 2008, and remains their poster boy. Dhoni-CSK's story is one-for-the-ages as the former is from Jharkhand but got accepted in a jiffy from the Chennai crowd ever since he got roped in by the team owners in inaugural IPL auction.
However, Dhoni wasn't CSK's first-choice. In the past, while speaking on his Youtube channel, former CSK batsman Subramaniam Badrinathrevealed that the franchise had initially zeroed in onbuying Virender Sehwag and not Dhoni.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 4:52 am