IPL 2024: In the opening match of IPL 2024, Virat Kohli’s team Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered a crushing defeat. Chennai started the tournament with a win by defeating Bengaluru by 6 wickets. With this match, difficulties have also started increasing for RCB. The Bengaluru team could neither show its strength in batting nor could it show anything special in bowling. From Rachin Ravindra to Shivam Dubey, all the players from Chennai have performed brilliantly. But let us tell you that the players who defeated Bengaluru were not Rachin and Shivam, but the move of MS Dhoni which stunned RCB.
Which move of Thala cost RCB heavily?
Just before IPL 2024, a big change was seen in Chennai Super Kings. CSK changed its captain at the last moment. Chennai’s legendary batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni left the captaincy, after which Ruturaj Gaikwad was made the new captain. Due to this, RCB took a sigh of relief. Bengaluru felt that now Ruturaj Gaikwad will be seen captaining, in such a situation they will get freedom from Dhoni’s tricks. But Dhoni gave a big blow to RCB in the middle of the field. Dhoni was not the captain in the first match being played between Bengaluru and Chennai, but still when CSK was fielding, Dhoni was seen guiding all the players.
CSK played a master stroke
Mahendra Singh Dhoni changed the whole game from behind the wicket. Which players should be sent where for fielding, or whether to guide them, all this was not done by Ruturaj Gaikwad but by MS Dhoni. Aakash Chopra and Virender Sehwag, who were doing commentary, also started discussing about this. The commentator laughingly said that it seems that Dhoni will not come only to toss, but will be seen captaining the rest of the field. Now the discussion regarding this has intensified among social media fans also. Fans are saying that Ruturaj Gaikwad is the captain only in name, in reality Mahendra Singh Dhoni seems to be the captain. This move of Mahi Bhai proved costly for RCB. Dhoni changed the game with his mastermind.
