MS Dhoni is an emotion. Despite being 42 years outdated, the Chennai Super Kings stalwart continues to entertain followers along with his batting capability. His 16-ball 37 towards Delhi Capitals got here a bit of too late within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 conflict on Sunday. Yet, CSK followers had little to complain about as they witnessed a classic MS Dhoni efficiency. As followers went ga-ga upon seeing the Dhoni present, a 10-year-old tweet of the veteran wicket-keeper batter resurfaced on social media, and shortly went viral.

Dhoni is not somebody who posts stuff on social media regularly lately. But, in 2014, he posted a tweet that learn: “Doesn’t matter which team wins,I am here for entertainment.”

Doesn’t matter which workforce wins,I’m right here for leisure

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) March 23, 2014

Sunday’s conflict towards Delhi actually mirrored what Dhoni had mentioned 10 years in the past. Though CSK misplaced the match, their former skipper made everybody’s day by showcasing pure leisure.

Faced with a tricky 192-run goal, the Super Kings tried to scale it down by Ajinkya Rahane (45), Dhoni (37 not out) and Daryl Mitchell (34) however the Capitals carried far too many weapons for them on the evening. CSK ended up at 171 for six.

With CSK needing 58 off 18 balls, Dhoni walked out to bat for the primary time this season amid chants of “Dhoni Dhoni” and handled his followers to some pleasant photographs.

The former CSK skipper blasted two fours within the first three balls with Ahmed dropping a sitter within the second ball.

Dhoni then clobbered a six over additional cowl off Ahmed, who ended up with three wides to concede 12 runs. But Mukesh conceded simply 5 runs within the nineteenth over to crush CSK’s dream, leaving them to make an inconceivable 41 off the final over.

Dhoni, who turned the clock again, nevertheless, gave his followers sufficient to cheer with a 4 and a one-handed six off the primary two balls earlier than producing one other 4 and a last-ball six as CSK racked up 20 runs.

But the Dhoni hurricane got here a trifle late.

With PTI inputs