Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday said that Chennai Super Kings’ “core group” of players will be looked at after the franchise finished out of the Indian Premier League play-off bracket for the first time in 11 appearances.
CSK crushed Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets to end their worst-ever IPL season on a positive note, with Ruturaj Gaikwad’s third successive half-century providing hope for a bright future.
A league-stage exit is a first for the three-time champions and one of IPL’s most successful franchises.
“We need to slightly change our core group and look for the next 10 years,” Dhoni said after the team’s final league game. “At the start of the IPL, we made a team and it served well. There comes a time where you have to shift a bit, hand it over to the next generation.”
Dhoni, 39, vowed that his team will come back strongly in the next season….