The all important announcement regarding the IPL broke out few days ago and it has been the talk of the town ever since. The kind of craze that IPL manages to attract is something that no other franchise cricket in the world could able to do so.
One of the successful franchises in the IPL history in Chennai Super Kings have already planned for an early departure to UAE and the latest source confirmed the same. The franchise has so many inactive players and this long break would have only hampered their rhythm.
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MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings are set to arrive to UAE well in advance before all the other teams to get accustomed to the conditions there in UAE. The wicket there, though wouldn’t differ much when compared to their home ground in India in chepauk, MS Dhoni’s men don’t want to leave any stones unturned.
In fact, CSK were the first team to start the training camp earlier this year in chepauk before the commencement of IPL. The likes of MS Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, Piyush Chawla, Imran Tahir, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh were the noticeable names who participated in that training camp.
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CSK have a wealth of spin resources when compared to the other 7 teams in IPL. With all the matches set to happen across 3 venues, the pitches are expected to wear out which will bring the spinners into the equation big time.
The likes of Imran Tahir, Ravindra Jadeja, Karn Sharma, Sai Kishore, Piyush Chawla are all right up there and they have the big man in MS Dhoni who knows how to get the best out of his resources.
All eyes will be on the former world cup winning captain and 3 times IPL winning captain in MS Dhoni who is on a sabbatical and hasn’t played a competitive game since India’s defeat to New Zealand in the world cup last year.
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