Talented all-rounder Shivam Dube believes MS Dhoni is the best judge whether he should be given a bowl in the Indian Premier League (IPL). However, Dube was one of the Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) star performers with the bat in IPL 2023, amassing 418 runs in 14 innings at a strike rate of 158.33. The all-rounder also played as a specialist batter and he wasn’t used with the ball throughout the tournament as well.

During an interaction on the AakashVani show on JioCinema, Shivam Dube said: “If I talk about the CSK team, the sixth option itself was Moeen Ali. I come as the seventh option, so it’s only if it’s very much required. That is one thing because of the Impact Player rule. I am trying to make myself better so that I can contribute one or two overs for the team. If I tell him (Dhoni), I feel it will be a huge insult to him. He knows when to bowl me. He just asks you to keep playing and not to take tension. When I started bowling, he said that my bowling had improved from last year.”

However, Shivam Dube also added that MS Dhoni told him that he was unable to bowl him based on the situation and the team’s requirements as well. He further added that the CSK skipper always tells him that his graph will move up gradually also.

“My thinking is always that I have to play for the Indian team and do something for the country. It is always in my mind that if I am good I can win the World Cup for my country. However, I need to do a lot of things for that. So my focus is on those things. The goal at the back of my mind is that I have to play for India. It is 100% a goal and I feel the direction in which I am going, it is getting closer,” Shivam Dube concluded.