Dhoni has scored 76 races in the first four games.
The former Cricket player from India, Manoj Tiwary, feels that Mrs. Dhoni should have retired after winning the Premier League of India (IPL) 2023 as Captain of Chennai Super Kings (CSK). He said that by continuing to play and not be able to finish the games now, Dhoni is slowly losing the respect he had won.
Dhoni is still a key player for CSK, but he has not yet taken much into account in IPL 2025, and the team also has a lower performance.
In the match against Delhi Capitals, he entered to hit at seven when CSK required 110 races of 9.2 overs. Many people thought it was too late to help the team win the game.
He did not stay with 30 races of 26 balls, but showed no urgency while hitting and only picked up the pace very late when the goal had already become too difficult. He took 19 balls to hit his first limit, a six of Mikesh Kumar in the 18th, which is the slowest beginning for any batter in the IPL 2025 so far. In the end, CSK lost the game for 25 races. This was his third consecutive defeat after winning his first game.
Dhoni has scored 76 races in the first four games. Many fans and experts have questioned their batting position.
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Tiwary feels that 2023 was the right time for Dhoni to retire
While talking in the Hindi show of Cricbuzz, Boj Tiwary said he felt that Dhoni should have retired after winning the IPL trophy in 2023. According to him, that would have been the perfect time to get away. He also mentioned that the name, fame and respect of Dhoni, who won through Crickt, seem to be disappearing slowly in the last two years due to how he has been playing.
“I think the right time for him to retire was in 2023, when he won the IPL trophy. He should have retired then. Somewhere, I feel that all the fame, the name and respect he won from the Crick, is slipping in the last two years with the way he has been playing Tiwary while talking in Cricbuzzzz
Boj Tiwary feels that Dhoni’s confidence among fans is fading
Manoj Tiwary said that fans find it difficult to see Dhoni play so now, and seems to be losing the spark he once had. He added that the confidence that Dhoni built over the years, especially with Chennai fans, is beginning to fade. After the last game, many fans were seen in the streets talking against him, which, according to Tiwary, is a sign that things no longer work.
“Fans cannot bear to see it like this and are losing that spark. The confidence he built in fans over the years, especially in the hearts of Chennai fans, after the last game, the way in which fans went out to the roads and gave interviews against him, he should have been a sign that he is no longer working,” said Tiwary.
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