What was Suresh Raina’s one word response on whether MS Dhoni will play after this season’s IPL?

Whenever a new season of the Indian Premier League season comes around these days, one of the biggest questions on everyone’s lips is if it was Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s last season in the league. 2024 hasn’t been any different with rumours getting intensified after the Indian icon passed on the Chennai Super Kings captaincy baton to Ruturaj Gaikwad last month.

However, if you ask Suresh Raina and RP Singh, they would probably say the contrary. When Raina was asked on Jio Cinemas if Dhoni would continue playing after this season’s IPL, he responded with one word, “Khelenge” (He will play). “It doesn’t seem like this will be his last season,” RP would add in the same show.

In the last match against Mumbai Indians in Wankhede last Sunday, Dhoni turned back the clock; a gentle reminder of his six-hitting nous in the death overs of an innings. But while his quickfire 37 against the Delhi Capitals in Vizag may not have turned the fate in his side’s favor, Sunday was anything but.

Another #TATAIPL season for Thala Dhoni? 🥹#IPLonJioCinema | @ImRaina | @rpsingh | @anantyagi_ pic.twitter.com/eeMUfyryGT

— JioCinema (@JioCinema) April 17, 2024

In the big ticket contest against fellow five-time IPL winners MI, for the Chennai Super Kings, came a hattrick of sixes in the final over that helped the defending champions breach the 200 run mark. Coming in to bat at six, Dhoni plundered three maximums off the four deliveries he faced – all off Mumbai Indians’ skipper Hardik Pandya’s bowling.

In the six games CSK have played so far, Dhoni has 59 runs to his name – 57 off which have come off two innings (Delhi and Mumbai). In CSK’s previous game – a home win against KKR – the former skipper had arrived to bat at five, raising speculations about a permanent promotion in the batting order.

Having scored in access of 400 runs in the 2018 and 2019 season, Dhoni hasn’t been able to cross the 250 mark in any of the following seasons and has batted lower down the order.

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