‘MS Dhoni’s reading of angles is out of the world’: Venkatesh Iyer recounts former CSK captain’s plan that got him out in IPL 2023
While MS Dhoni may have left his captaincy days behind him, Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer described an incident of the Chennai Super Kings talisman’s leadership acumen from his last season as the franchise’s skipper in 2023.
The 30-year-old Iyer, who reunited with KKR during the IPL 2025 mega auction last November with a hefty price tag of Rs 23.75 crore, recounted Dhoni’s moment of “real captaincy” that left him gobsmacked during a CSK-KKR tie in Chennai.
After Dhoni made a subtle adjustment in the field during KKR’s modest 145-run chase at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, the former India captain prevailed in setting up Iyer’s wicket off the very next ball, with Ravindra Jadeja holding onto a catch near the short-third position off Deepak Chahar’s bowling.
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