Chennai Super Kings has retained four players before the mega auction of IPL 2022. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s name is also included in the retention list. The CSK team management had already informed that they will definitely retain Dhoni. But he had also made it clear that Dhoni does not want CSK to retain him by spending more money on him. He wants to give chance to young players in the team.
Dhoni has been retained by CSK for 12 crores. While Chennai Super Kings has spent Rs 16 crore to retain Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja is a very important player for Chennai Super Kings and Dhoni has sacrificed a lot for him to remain with the team and he reduced his salary and decided to remain associated with the team with less salary.
Earlier, Dhoni was getting 15 crores as salary. But from the next season, he will get a lesser amount of three crores. By doing this, Dhoni has again proved why he is called great. Dhoni also knows that there is not much cricket left in him. In such a situation, he wants to prepare a new leadership for the future. For this reason, Dhoni got Jadeja preferred over himself.
Chennai has retained Dhoni and Jadeja as well as Moeen Ali and Rituraj Gaikwad. CSK’s bowling coach himself revealed that it was Dhoni who had said that Jadeja should be made the number one retained player. This is their nobility. No one knows better than him what the team needs.