I was supposed to be CSK captain before Dhoni, Sehwag shares background of 2008 IPL bid

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Tezzbuzz|27-05-2024

Live Hindi News :- The Chennai Super Kings team based in the capital of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, has won 5 trophies in the IPL T20 cricket series. Therefore, Chennai, which holds the record of being the most successful team of IPL on a par with Mumbai, has also won 2 Champions League T20 trophies. Also, in the 14 seasons played so far, Chennai has qualified for the play-off round 12 times and played the finals 10 times.

Thus it can be said that Chennai is more symbolic of the name Consistency than Mumbai. Needless to say, former captain MS Dhoni is the main reason behind the team's success. Because like India, he has led all the players since 2008 and has contributed to many victories of Chennai as a great captain, wicketkeeper batsman and finisher.

CSK Captain Sehwag: Earlier, when IPL started in 2008, Ganguly for Kolkata and Sachin for Mumbai were chosen as the captains of the star players of their respective states. But since Tamil Nadu did not have any such player at that time, MS from Jharkhand state won the 2007 T20 World Cup for India. Dhoni was bought for a huge amount as the captain of the Chennai team.

What happened after that became history. In this case, Virender Sehwag said that in 2008, the team selector VP Chandrashekhar invited him to play as the captain of CSK. However, Sehwag said that this opportunity was missed because his state Delhi administration invited him to play as an icon player at the last moment. Here is what he said about this in a recent radio interview.

VP Chandrasekhar selected the players for the CSK team. Then, “Delhi Daredevils want to play you as an icon player. Don’t accept it. We want you to play for CSK,” he told me on the phone. I accepted it and said, “Let’s see.

Eventually I got an offer to play for Delhi Daredevils as an icon. I accepted it and did not go to the live auction. Perhaps if I had participated in the auction, CSK would have bought me and declared me the captain. However, later they bought MS Dhoni and appointed him as their captain,” he said.

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