IPL 2022 : End of an ERA
With just a few days remaining for the Indian Premier League, many news stories were floating regarding the league and teams. Many players pulled from the league and many teams had signed replacements for them. Meanwhile Many teams like Lucknow and Gujarat released their new jerseys for this year.
Another news relating to ipl which made headlines was ticket sales. IPLtickets recently went on sale and many mens were disappointed about the pricing of the ticket. Tickets started at the base price of 3000 which shocked many fans and twitter was flooded with emotionally and frustrated reactions from the fans.
Just when everyone thought no more big news was coming regarding the ipl , this afternoon broke the biggest news till now. The Legendary Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni decided to step down from captaincy of his franchise team Chennai Super Kings.
MS Dhoni decided to hand over the captaincy of CSK to the charismatic allrounder R.Jadeja. CSK in the official statement put a post confirming it which said , MS Dhoni has decided to hand over the captaincy baton to Jadeja. But in relief to many CSK fans it also mentioned that Dhoni will continue to play a major role as a player in the Chennai Super Kings setup.
Now talking about MSD and CSK it has been a special connection. This journey started back in 2008 with inception of IPL .Back then MSD was a costly player bought for a whopping price of 9.5cr by the franchise.
Since then Dhoni has led the franchise on the field. Under Dhoni, the team performed exceptionally well. They qualified for the playoffs each year barring 2020. Team were finalists for 4 times and they lifted the prestigious IPL trophy 4 times under MSD. They were IPL Champions back in 2010 ,2011 ,2018 and are defending champions in this year ipl as they won the league last year itself. From 2010 to 2011 it was the golden period of CSK as they won 3 trophies in this period: 2 IPL Titles and One Champions Trophy Cup.
MSD quitting CSK Captaincy is an end of an era in itself. Nobody expected that MS Dhoni would quit the captaincy but then again it's MS Dhoni he does this in own way and surprisingly, shocking everyone out.
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