Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won four titles to Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. Dhoni, one of the world’s most successful captains, was stripped of the captaincy in 2017.
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New Delhi. great players of india Mahendra Singh Dhoni He is considered to be one of the greatest captains not only of India but of the world. He has won India not one but two but three ICC trophies. His sharp mind and strategies on the field always used to surprise everyone. Even in IPL, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won four titles to Chennai Super Kings. Seeing Dhoni’s records, it is difficult to understand that there was a time when Dhoni was removed from the captaincy.
In the years 2016 and 2017, Chennai Super Kings did not participate in the IPL. The team was banned for two years. Mahendra Singh Dhoni played for Rising Pune Supergiants in these two seasons. For the first time in the history of IPL, this happened in 2017 when Dhoni played only as a wicket-keeper batsman in IPL.
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Pune was ranked seventh in 2016
In the year 2016, Rising Pune Super Giants participated in IPL for the first time. Dhoni was made the captain of the team. Australia’s Steve Smith and Ajinkya Rahane were big players in this team. This season has not been good for the team. With 9 defeats in 14 matches, this team finished seventh among 8 teams. After this, there was a ruckus in the very next season.
Captaincy taken from Dhoni
Before the start of the 2017 season, he shared an event picture from IPL’s Twitter account in which all the captains were present. In this picture, Steve Smith was seen instead of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The fans got very angry seeing this and trolled RPS fiercely on social media as well. No one was convinced that Dhoni could be removed from the captaincy. It was said in many reports that Dhoni himself has given up the captaincy, but later such reports also came out that Dhoni was removed by the unhappy management himself.
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RPS team wanted young captain
Seeing the displeasure of the people, Sanjiv Goenka came in front of the media. He told that he wanted a young captain for the team. Mahendra Singh Dhoni fully supported the management’s decision. However, this issue has increased further when Harsh Goenka tweeted about the captaincy. He had tweeted after Pune’s win in the first match of the 2017 season that the decision to drop Dhoni was absolutely right and Smith had told who is the king of the jungle. When the fans created an uproar over this tweet, he deleted it.
Dhoni proved himself again
After this Dhoni’s wife Sakshi came forward and replied to Harsh Goenka’s tweet without saying anything. He shared the picture in which Dhoni Chennai Super Kings Were seen in K’s jersey. Even in the middle of the league, when Smith did not play the match, Ajinkya Rahane was given the captaincy in place of Dhoni. Dhoni did not say anything on the whole issue. The next year, he returned to the Chennai Super Kings jersey and proved who the real king is by making the team the champion.
