IPL 2023: MS Dhoni 'Super Happy' with Ben Stokes inclusion, CSK CEO reveals 'Dhoni will take call on Stokes as Captain': Follow LIVE

IPL 2023: MS Dhoni ‘Super Happy’ with Ben Stokes inclusion, CSK CEO reveals ‘Dhoni will take call on Stokes as Captain’: Follow LIVE

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Sunday, Dec 25, 2022 8:45 am

IPL 2023 CSK Squad – CSK Full Squad: CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan has revealed that MS Dhoni is ‘SUPER-HAPPY’ with Ben Stokes acquistion in IPL Auction by Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Kasi also told InsideSport that Dhoni was continuously on call with the team at AUCTION and kept guiding the team. When asked, will Stokes […]

IPL 2023 CSK Squad – CSK Full Squad: CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan has revealed that MS Dhoni is ‘SUPER-HAPPY’ with Ben Stokes acquistion in IPL Auction by Chennai Super Kings (CSK). Kasi also told InsideSport that Dhoni was continuously on call with the team at AUCTION and kept guiding the team. When asked, will Stokes be the next captain of CSK? CSK CEO said, ‘it will be Dhoni’s call’: Follow IPL 2023 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN

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— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) December 24, 2022

“We are SUPER excited to have Ben Stokes in our line-up. MS is also SUPER-HAPPY, he was on call with us and was guiding the team throughout at the AUCTION. MS was happy that we got an allroudner we wanted” Kasi Viswanathan told InsideSport.

InsideSport further asked CSK CEO – Are you seeing Stokes as your captain?

“Captaincy option is there but it’s a call MS will take with time”, declared CSK CEO

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IPL 2023: MS Dhoni ‘Super Happy’ with Ben Stokes inclusion, CSK CEO reveals ‘Dhoni will take call on Stokes as Captain’: Follow LIVE

CSK Masterstroke? Before the IPL Auction, CSK all through kept sending the message that they will go hard on Sam Curran. InsideSport also had spoken to the CSK team before the IPL AUCTION – and the message was loud and clear that Curran is the man they will targetting at IPL Auction.

But it seems they bluffed their way before buying Stokes. They went hard for Curran but it seems Stokes was the one they were actually eyeing and got him at the end at decent price.

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— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) December 24, 2022

“We had planned in an manner that we have to pick either of Curran or Stokes at the auction. We are lucky that plan got materialized. We look forward to welcome Stokes now in Chennai”, revealed Kasi

But why did CSK picked Kyle Jamieson. The lanky Kiwi all-rounder has been injured throughout 2022. So why did CSK bet on him? CSK CEO informed that it was Stephen Fleming who had inside information about Jaimeson that ‘he has fully recovered’.

“Kyle Jamieson was injured so maybe many others didn’t look at him. We had information from Fleming that he had recovered and was raring to go”

How are cricket experts reacting to CSK’s new buys at IPL Auction?

Former New Zealand all-rounder Scotty Styris feels the England star could take over the bat from MS Dhoni ahead of the 16th edition of the league itself.

Stokes is undoubtedly one of the most sought-after all-rounders in world cricket. Over the course of his IPL career, Stokes has time and again shown what he can do with the bat as well as with the ball. But, does he have what it takes to lead Chennai Super Kings?

In a chat on Jio Cinema, Styris suggested that Dhoni would straight away pass on the captaincy baton to Stokes.

“I think so, I think he will be captain. We have seen MS Dhoni try and pass the captaincy on, he has not been playing cricket regularly in between the IPL. It’s just an opportunity for MS Dhoni to pass the baton. I think yes, they will do it straight away. Ben Stokes will be captain,”Styris said.

Chennai Super Kings FULL Squad – CSK Full Squad

Bhagath Varma (INR 20 lakh), Ajay Mandal (INR 20 lakh), Kyle Jamieson (INR 1 crore), Nishant Sindhu (INR 60 lakh), Shaik Rasheed (INR 20 lakh), Ben Stokes (INR 16.25 crore), Ajinkya Rahane (INR 50 lakh), MS Dhoni (c), Devon Conway, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali, Shivam Dube, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Ravindra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Simarjeet Singh, Deepak Chahar, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana.

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