Former Australia batter Michael Hussey has in contrast Chennai Tremendous Kings captain MS Dhoni to Benjamin Button. Defending champions CSK will lock horns with Royal Challengers Bangalore within the opening match of IPL 2024 on the Chepauk Stadium on Friday, March 22.
Talking on the inauguation of the Pavit Singh Nayar Memorial All India inter-college T20 event at Guru Nanak School in Chennai, Hussey in contrast Dhoni to Benjamin Button, who’s a personality in his namesake Hollywood movie starring Brad Pitt. Within the movie, Benjamin Button ages in reverse and turns into youthful as his age will increase.
“He’s making ready very well. His knee appears good at this stage. And he’s batting extraordinarily nicely in the meanwhile. I need to admit he’s like Benjamin Button! He retains getting higher,” mentioned Hussey.
He went on to say that Dhoni can nonetheless hit the ball very cleanly regardless of his age. The 42-year-old has gained 5 IPL title as Chennai Tremendous Kings captain, main them to the title final 12 months by beating Gujarat Titans within the closing on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
“He’s not as younger as he was once. So, the scampering between the wickets goes to be harder for him. However on the again finish of the innings, the place there’s not as a lot sprinting, he can nonetheless hit the ball very cleanly. And he’s hitting the ball extraordinarily nicely in the meanwhile. It’s nice to see,” Hussey added.
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Talking about CSK’s struggles with accidents to key gamers like Devon Conway, Matheesha Pathirana and Mustafizur Rahman, Hussey mentioned they’ve sufficient depth of their squad to switch the injured gamers.
“Effectively, after all, they’re world-class gamers. So, it’s going to be troublesome to switch them. However we really feel like we’ve obtained sufficient depth within the squad to have the ability to cowl it at this stage,” mentioned Hussey.
CSK IPL 2024 SQUAD
MS Dhoni (c), Moeen Ali, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway, Tushar Deshpande, Shivam Dube, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajay Mandal, Mukesh Choudhary, Matheesha Pathirana, Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Mitchell Santner, Simarjeet Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Rachin Ravindra, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman, Avanish Rao Aravelly.
