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After the 7th defeat of Chennai Super Kings, Suresh Raina has come out in defense of his friend MS Dhoni. He has blamed the defeat on the players selected in the IPL auction. Ravindra Jadeja is also on the target of Raina.
Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh with MS Dhoni. (PTI)
New Delhi. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has lost, but is not broken… This has been posted from CSK’s social media handle after the defeat of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Chennai’s team is almost out of the IPL playoff after the seventh defeat. Often in such a situation, from management to fans, they start extracting the shortcomings of teams and players. But CSK management is not doing this. Former cricketers like Suresh Raina are also seen defending MS Dhoni.
In IPL 2025, Chennai Super Kings suffered a seventh defeat on Friday. Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated him by 5 wickets. After this defeat, Suresh Raina told the shortcomings of CSK, but in the style that there is no fault of MS Dhoni in them. Remember, Dhoni and Raina retired from international cricket on the same day.
Suresh Raina said in the post match show on Star Sports, ‘Kashi sir has been handling the administration for 30-40 years. Rupa Maam is handling the team’s core group, which includes buying players. But MS (Dhoni) knows that this time good players were not bought. On this, the host asks whose accountability to buy players. How much Dhoni plays in this. On this, Raina says, ‘See, Dhoni used to get a call. Whether to retain or not… but they were not so involved in this. The core group in it. You can imagine that Dhoni cannot do this auction.
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