IPL 2024: MS Dhoni fingers over CSK captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad

Ruturaj has been an integral a part of Chennai Tremendous Kings since 2019 and has performed 52 matches in IPL throughout this era

IPL 2024: MS Dhoni fingers over CSK captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad

IANS

New Delhi, Mar 21: Proper-handed opening batter Ruturaj Gaikwad would be the new captain of Chennai Tremendous Kings forward of their IPL 2024 season opener in opposition to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday.

“MS Dhoni has handed over Chennai Tremendous Kings’ captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad forward of the beginning of IPL 2024. Ruturaj has been an integral a part of Chennai Tremendous Kings since 2019 and has performed 52 matches in IPL throughout this era. The crew seems ahead to the upcoming season,” stated the franchise in a press release on its official web site.

The match additionally made the announcement of Gaikwad’s appointment as CSK skipper via its social media accounts on Thursday, when he participated in a pre-captains photoshoot and met different groups’ skippers’ too. Will probably be the primary time Pune-based Gaikwad would be the captain within the match.

This may solely be simply the second time MS Dhoni received’t begin an IPL season as skipper of CSK, after Ravindra Jadeja had been the captain in IPL 2022, just for him to get replaced mid-way by the legendary wicketkeeper-batter.