MS Dhoni as an Impact Player?! My CSK 2026 Prediction!
Chennai Super Kings are one of the most successful franchises, one of the only two teams to win the IPL five times. But CSK last won in 2023, and a lot has changed since then. In 2024, they missed out in the virtual quarter-final against RCB and could not make it to the top four. But 2025? Every CSK fan would love to forget it. I think where CSK went wrong was in the Mega Auction itself. They have this tried-and-tested method of going with players who are not in form but are experienced, backing them, and getting the best out of them. It has worked for them as they didn’t win five titles by accident. But it backfired last year. They thought Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, and Deepak Hooda would be the type of players to play the modern T20 game, and that backfired for CSK hugely. The Birth of "CSK 2.0" Somewhere after they were disqualified—where they had no chance of making the top four we saw a "New CSK." They thought, "Right, we’re ...
