MS Dhoni Steps Down As CSK Captain, Ruturaj To Lead Chennai Franchise In IPL 2024

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Mar 21: 5-time IPL champions Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK) introduced star opener Ruturaj Gikwad because the aspect’s new skipper of the staff on Thursday forward of the upcoming season of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.
The choice marks the top of Dhoni’s lengthy reign on the helm of the CSK, throughout which he led them to 5 IPL titles.
“MS Dhoni handed over Chennai Tremendous Kings’ captaincy to batter Ruturaj Gaikwad forward of the beginning of the Indian Premier League (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,” CSK knowledgeable by an official assertion on Thursday.
He led the CSK in 212 IPL matches, profitable 128 matches and shedding 82. Dhoni introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket on August 15, 2020, after main the staff to glory within the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup and the 2013 Champions Trophy.
Final 12 months, Dhoni led the Chennai franchise to a record-equalling fifth IPL title in opposition to the Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad. The 42-year-old, who stays one in all Indian cricket’s most admired faces, having fun with fandom that rivals that of some present stars, captained Chennai for the reason that inaugural IPL season in 2008, barring two years when the franchise was suspended from the match over fixing expenses.
He handed over the captaincy mantle to star-all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja firstly of the 2022 season however returned to guide the franchise once more after simply eight matches into the season.
Ruturaj was a part of CSK’s victorious IPL 2023 marketing campaign. One of many heroes of the marketing campaign that 12 months, the Maharashtra batter stitched essential partnerships with fellow opener Devon Conway for the Chennai franchise.
In 16 matches within the 2023 season, Gaikwad scored 590 runs at a median of 42.14. He additionally scored 4 half-centuries within the match, with a finest rating of 92.
In his IPL profession since making his debut for the CSK in 2019 and discovering ‘yellove’ from the followers, he has scored 1,797 runs at a median of 39.07 and a strike price of 135.52. He has scored one century and 14 fifties, with finest rating of 101*.
He has additionally featured in 9 T20Is for India, aggregating 135 runs with one fifty. He has additionally represented India in a single ODI, scoring 19 runs.
The seventeenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will kick off on March 22, with final 12 months’s champions going face to face with the Faf Du Plesis-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in a South Indian derby on the latter’s house enviornment–MA Chidambaram Stadium.
CSK squad for IPL 2024: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), MS Dhoni (WK), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly. (Companies)