Senior cricketers Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh may have withdrawn from IPL 2020, but that hasn’t weakened the spirit of the Chennai Super Kings one bit, the reason? Your captain MS Dhoni, of course. Fifteen days before the 2020 IPL begins on September 19, CSK on Saturday shared a 31-second clip on its official Twitter account to kick-start the IPL.
In the video, Dhoni is seen hitting six, dancing, talking to the players, instructing them from behind the stumps as a famous song ‘Vaathi Coming’ from an upcoming Tamil movie ‘Master’ played in the background.
“Vaathi Coming … #WhistlePodu #HappyTeachersDay,” CSK wrote while sharing the video.
Vaathi is coming … #WhistlePodu #Happy teacher’s day @msdhoni 🦁💛 pic.twitter.com/thbXHrgoYC
– Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) September 5, 2020
On Friday, Dhoni reached the nits with the CSK team minus the two cricketers, Deepak Chahar and Ruturaj Gaikwad, who tested positive for Covid-19, on Friday in Dubai.
Dhoni faced players like Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur on Friday and looked quite comfortable against the pace and spin. The CSK captain treated most of the deliveries with respect, showing the full face of the bat to the closers and trying to work the ball against the spinners, but there was a shot at Piyush Chawla that was the highlight of the training session of the CSK.
It had Dhoni written all over it. Chawla launched a flying delivery, Dhoni leapt down the lane and hit it cleanly directly on the back of the bowler’s head for a max.
CSK, last year’s runners-up, are likely to face defending champions the Mumbai Indians in the tournament opener on September 19. BCCI will announce the full 2020 IPL schedule on Sunday.
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