MS Dhoni Injury Update: Chennai Super Kings legend and former captain MS Doni will be missing for the first few games of IPL 2026 as he is sidelined with an injury. The question now on every fan’s lips is, when will he return to the field?
Despite retiring from international cricket six years ago, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is still a fixture of the Indian Premier League. The former captain of the Indian Cricket Team and two-time World Cup winner is also arguably the greatest wicketkeeper-batter in the history of the league. He has played 278 matches in the league, has scored 5439 runs, and has made over 200 dismissals.
Bought by and made captain of CSK in the inaugural 2008 season of the IPL, Dhoni led the side to two IPL trophies in 2010 and 2011. After the team was reinstated in 2018, he guided them to three more trophies in 2018, 2021, and 2023.
He is also the second-highest scorer for the joint-most successful franchise in IPL history, apart from being the joint-most successful captain in league history. He has also played the most IPL matches for any player and is the only one to have over 100 wins as a captain in this tournament.
However, after his fifth title win in 2023, the Jharkhand-based veteran cricketer gave up the team captaincy, which then went to Ruturaj Gaikwad. Since then, Dhoni, taking advantage of the IPL’s Impact Player rule, has been coming in to bat in the final over on most days, where he hits a couple of boundaries and ends the CSK innings on a high.
More than a strategic part of a playing XI, the 44-year-old has become a spectacle for the fans in the stadium and watching from home. CSK games have become the fastest-selling tickets in the league, with fans coming in to watch what can be the final season of an absolute legend of Indian cricket.
MS Dhoni Injury Update
Despite his advancing age (for a sportsperson), Dhoni has rarely missed a chunk of games throughout his 18-year IPL career. Well, that changed this season.
A day before the start of IPL 2026, it was announced that Dhoni would miss a couple of weeks at the start of the season due to a calf strain he suffered during training.
Well, there is a big MS Dhoni injury update a couple of days after the first announcement. The Times of India has reported that MS is unlikely to return before the last week of April, which means he will miss out on a week of IPL 2026.
This will be the first time Dhoni will miss a significant portion of an IPL season. Is this a sign that it is time for the two-time World Cup-winning and five-time IPL-winning captain to hang up his boots for good? Only time will tell.
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