Dhoni batting position: In the IPL 2025 season, Chennai Super Kings. The RCB lost by 50 runs in front of RCB in his home. CSK has lost in his own house after 2008. After which many types of questions are being raised.
Most questions are being raised about Batting at Dhoni’s number-9. Many veteran Indian players say that Dhoni should change his batting position. Otherwise, CSK will lose a lot.
Will Dhoni’s batting position change? (Dhoni batting position):
Actually Chennai lost by 50 runs in front of RCB. After which Irfan Pathan lashed out at Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In the last match of CSK, Chennai had fallen six wickets for 80 runs, when everyone had high hopes for Mahendra Singh Dhoni to come. But Dhoni sent R Ashwin on him. Although R Ashwin also knows how to bat, but his bat could not go on that day.
When the match was completely out of CSK’s hand, Dhoni came to bat on number-9. On this decision of Dhoni, ICC umpires Richard Catelbro and Irfan Pathan erupted and both targeted Dhoni’s decision.
In the 16th over of Chennai’s innings, Jab Sambh as R Kone on 99 runs fell for the sixth wicket, then Dhoni came to batting. However, by then the CSK match had almost lost. Dhoni hit two sixes in the final over of the match but by then the RCB had won the match.
Now, with Dhoni’s arrival at number-9, many veteran players including Irfan Pathan are raising questions and are sharing the posts related to it on their social media account X handle. Irfan Pathan wrote that, I was never in favor of batting on Dhoni’s number-9. This is not right for CSK’s team.
ICC umpire Richard Cattalbrow wrote on his ex handle about Dhoni that after the dismissal of Selfish, Shivam Dubey, when the team needed Dhoni, MS Dhoni’s not coming and batting on the lower order, what is the use of what sixes?
However, Dhoni can come to bat at number 6 or 7 in the match with I, RR. Now it will be interesting to see, in which number Dhoni comes to bat in the match against Rajasthan Royals?