Amid the frenzy of the Indian Premier League (IPL) retentions, Chennai Tremendous Kings’ (CSK) MS Dhoni spent a night celebrating Diwali. Cricket collided with festivities on Thursday, October 31, and MS Dhoni was on the centre of the retention saga. Nonetheless, the previous India and CSK captain was captured celebrating Diwali, and attending a non secular ceremony, surrounded by household, kin and mates. In the meantime, he was additionally introduced as considered one of CSK’s 5 retentions forward of the IPL 2025 mega public sale, being retained because the ‘uncapped’ participant for Rs 4 crore.
Watch: MS Dhoni celebrates Diwali on IPL retentions day
MS DHONI CELEBRATING DIWALI
– Video of the day….!!!! pic.twitter.com/C2zH7PbhK3
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Forward of IPL 2025, gamers who haven’t performed a global match or been centrally contracted to the BCCI for 5 or extra years had been allowed to be retained as ‘uncapped’ gamers. This labored in CSK’s favour, who had been capable of retain 43-year-old Dhoni on the twilight of his profession with out paying a hefty sum.
Dhoni put to mattress all rumours surrounding his retirement when he revealed earlier than the public sale that he supposed to benefit from the “previous few years” of his profession, hinting that he nonetheless had cricket left in him.
Chennai Tremendous Kings confirmed immense religion in Ruturaj Gaikwad, who took over captaincy from Dhoni. Gaikwad was retained for Rs 18 crore.
The identical retention charge was paid to maintain Ravindra Jadeja on the franchise, with CSK selecting to retain their long-time servant.
Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana and Indian middle-order powerhitter Shivam Dube had been additionally retained by CSK.
Because of this, CSK retained 4 gamers as capped, and one as uncapped, leaving them with one Proper to Match (RTM) card to make use of on the public sale. The likes of Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Maheesh Theekshana, Tushar Deshpande and Sameer Rizvi are among the gamers who could also be thought-about by CSK for an RTM.
The IPL public sale is about to happen within the final week of November, as per studies.
