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MS Dhoni Steps Down For Ravindra Jadeja As CSK Captain

MS Dhoni steps down for Ravindra Jadeja as CSK captain in IPL 2022. Dhoni had been the captain of Chennai Super Kings since the first season of IPL. He has decided to hand over the captaincy of the team to Ravindra Jadeja in the upcoming season. IPL 2022 will see Ravindra Jadeja leading Chennai Super Kings. The decision was made on thursday, two days before the new swanson started. 

As CSK released the statement they said that Dhoni will continue to be a part of Chennai Super Kings for this season and the seasons to come. The statement claimed that MS Dhoni decided to hand over the captaincy of Chennai Super Kings and picked Ravindra Jadeja for the job.

Jadeja has been an integral part of CSK since 2012 and will be the third player to lead CSK. Dhoni who has led the team to victory four times could be playing his last IPL this season. At 40 years old, he has already retired from international cricket.

As the defending champions, CSK will open their campaign against last year’s runner-up Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. The last time Jaddeja captained a cricket team was on October 28, 2007, where he led the Saurashtra Under-19 against the Mumbai Under-19 in the Vinoo Mankad tournament at the Western Railway Ground in Rajkot.

In the meantime, Jadeja has reclaimed the top spot from West Indies’ Jason Holder in the latest ICC Test rankings for all-rounders released on Wednesday. He rose to no.1 after his 175 not-out and nine wickets in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Mohali earlier in March 2022. 

The current CSK Squad has MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja (captain), Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Dwayne Bravo, Robin Uthappa, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Shivam Dube,  Maheesh Theekshana, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitch Santner, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Prashant Solanki, Mukesh Choudhary, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, and Bhagath Varma.         

 

 

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