Former India captain MS Dhoni underwent successful surgery on his left knee on Thursday in a hospital in Mumbai, increasing his chances of playing in the 17th Indian Premier League season 2024. After the final on Monday, Dhoni took a flight from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, where he consulted renowned sports orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala. Pardiwala is a member of the BCCI medical panel and has operated on a number of top Indian cricketers, including Rishabh Pant. Prior to his surgery, Dhoni was seen carrying the Holy Bhagvad Geeta after arriving in Mumbai. Follow cricket NEWS & LIVE updates with InsideSport.IN
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Dhoni appeared perfectly fine when keeping wicket, he occasionally came into bat as low as No. 8 and didn’t appear to be in his element while racing between the wickets. Dhoni had played the entire season with heavy strapping on his left knee. CEO Kasi Viswanathan had stated on Wednesday that it will entirely be Dhoni’s decision as to whether or not to have surgery.
After the IPL final, Dhoni had said: “If you circumstantially see, it’s the best time to announce retirement. The easy thing for me to say is thank you and retire. But the hard thing to do is to work hard for nine months and try to play one more IPL season. The body has to hold up. But the amount of love I have received from CSK fans, it would be a gift for them to play one more season.
“The way they’ve shown their love and emotion, it’s something I need to do for them. It’s the last part of my career. It started over here and full house was chanting my name. It was same thing in Chennai, but it will be good to come back and play whatever I can. The kind of cricket I play, they feel they can play that cricket. There’s nothing orthodox about it and I like to keep it simple.”
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