Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is currently locking horns with the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in the final league game of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). This is the last appearance for the Men in Yellow this season as they are out of contention to reach the playoff for the first time in the IPL history. With MS Dhoni have had announced his international cricket in August, many felt that this will be his last IPL season too.

However, the CSK skipper himself has cleared that he will be playing the next IPL edition as well. Dhoni clarified the same at the toss while speaking to Danny Morrison who asked him if it’s his last game while wearing the yellow jersey.

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“Definitely not,” MS Dhoni replied with immense confidence after being asked about his availability for the three-time champions after CSK won the toss and he opted to bowl first.

Danny Morrison : Could this be your last game in yellow ? #MSDhoni : Definitely Not!#CSK have won the toss and they will bowl first against #KXIP in Match 53 of #Dream11IPL pic.twitter.com/KhaDJFcApe

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) November 1, 2020

Earlier, even the CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan had also confirmed that MS Dhoni will play in the 2021 edition of the IPL. He had also crashed all the rumors of changing the skipper at the same time. He had earlier said, “Yes definitely I’m very confident that Dhoni will lead CSK in 2021. He has won three titles for us in the IPL. This is the 1st year we have not qualified for the playoffs, no other team has done that.”

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Having said that, it hasn’t been a great season for MS Dhoni in 2020 as he is yet to score a single half-century and will be keen on signing off in style. As far as the final league game of CSK is concerned, they have made three changes to their line-up. While Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, and Shardul Thakur came back in to replace, Mitchell Santner, Karn Sharma, and Shane Watson have missed out.

For KXIP, Mayank Agarwal is fit even as they also made two changes to their team. Along with Mayank, Neesham came in while Arshdeep Singh and Glenn Maxwell missed out.