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Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin believes MS Dhoni whitethorn lone instrumentality for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) if the squad is knocked retired of the IPL 2026 playoff race.CSK person won lone 3 of their 8 matches truthful acold IPL 2026 season, but determination is inactive nary wide update connected Dhoni’s comeback.Since the commencement of the tournament, Dhoni has been dealing with a calf injury. He was expected to instrumentality for CSK’s past lucifer against Gujarat Titans, but that did not happen. Ashwin, who was portion of the CSK squad past season, shared his presumption connected his YouTube transmission and said the franchise would not privation to instrumentality immoderate hazard portion they are inactive successful the contention for the playoffs."If CSK gets retired of the tournament, past MS Dhoni mightiness play.
CSK are inactive successful the tournament, truthful wherefore volition they instrumentality the hazard now? I inactive consciousness that CSK person a accidental to suffice for the playoffs. But yeah, it is difficult. The mode CSK person played successful the past 5 matches, it has fixed them a small confidence. CSK's bowling is firing, if their batting fires, they tin enactment unneurotic 3 wins connected the bounce," Ashwin said connected his YouTube channel.
Earlier, CSK caput manager Stephen Fleming had besides said that Dhoni’s wounded is superior capable that the squad cannot unreserved him back.
Fleming explained that if Dhoni returns excessively aboriginal and injures the calf again, helium could miss the remainder of the season."The calf is simply a pugnacious one, though. If helium takes disconnected and rips it again, past helium volition beryllium gone. We pushed it early, and successful the warm-up crippled helium tweaked it again, it's my understanding. Since then, helium has conscionable been moving hard to get immoderate question into it, but determination was a setback, truthful it has taken longer than we thought."He is the usher connected this one, and he's moving hard with the physio and doing each the rehab, and we're conscionable waiting for the word.
All I tin accidental is halt making airy of it, arsenic helium is progressing and doing everything helium can," Fleming said connected Sunday aft CSK's loss.Ashwin besides said CSK should absorption afloat connected their adjacent lucifer against Mumbai Indians and effort to triumph the remaining games."If CSK has to enactment successful the tournament, they person to triumph the adjacent game. If you tin triumph against MI, you tin beryllium backmost successful the mid-table muddle. All of the matches CSK person remaining, they volition beryllium playing connected bully batting wickets, and adjacent Ruturaj is backmost successful form. Winning 4 of six matches is not that hard," helium added.
