Chennai Super Kings: Before IPL 2024, Chennai Super Kings have made a big change and made Ruturaj Gaikwad their captain. Chennai Super Kings has also officially confirmed this.
There is not much time left for the start of IPL 2024. Before this, Chennai Super Kings has made a major change in the captaincy of the team. Rituraj Gaikwad has been made the new captain of the team in place of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He has been given this responsibility just before the start of IPL. IPL gave this information through its official social media account.
Before the 17th season of IPL, which is going to start from March 22, the fans of Chennai Super Kings have got a big shock. CSK will play its first match against RCB on Friday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Under the leadership of Dhoni, the team won the title last season by defeating Gujarat Giants in the final match.
Presenting @ChennaiIPL‘s Captain – @Ruutu1331 🙌🙌#TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/vt77cWXyBI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 21, 2024
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who won CSK the IPL title five times, will not be seen leading the team in the upcoming season. This is not the first time that Dhoni has left this responsibility. Earlier in IPL 2022 also, the team management had made a change in the captaincy. Star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was made the captain in place of Dhoni.
However, he was not able to discharge this responsibility properly and the team had to face a crushing defeat in the league matches, due to which he left the team in the middle of the season and also resigned from the captaincy. . After this Dhoni once again took over the captaincy. Last season, the team won its fifth title.
𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞!
The #TATAIPL is here and WE are ready to ROCK & ROLL 🎉🥳🥁
Presenting the 9 captains with PBKS being represented by vice-captain Jitesh Sharma. pic.twitter.com/v3fyo95cWI
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 21, 2024
Dhoni did not attend the photoshoot of captains for the upcoming season of IPL. Rituraj Gaikwad was seen in his place, since then there were speculations about change in the captaincy of CSK. On Thursday, IPL confirmed in its official post that Chennai Super Kings will be led by Rituraj Gaikwad in place of Dhoni.
At the same time, Punjab Kings have also taken a big decision before the upcoming season of IPL and made Jitesh Sharma the vice-captain of the team. He was seen doing photoshoot with the captains in place of Shikhar Dhawan.