{"id":3267,"date":"2023-05-28T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/selling-ms-dhoni-was-career-highlight-ipls-first-auctioneer-ahead-of-csk-vs-gt-final\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:01:46","slug":"selling-ms-dhoni-was-career-highlight-ipls-first-auctioneer-ahead-of-csk-vs-gt-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Selling MS Dhoni Was Career Highlight&#8221;: IPL&#8217;s First Auctioneer Ahead Of CSK vs GT Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/v1ibkbh_ms-dhoni-bcci_625x300_28_May_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><b class=\"place_cont\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 final is set to kick-off on Sunday evening, with <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/700-ms-dhoni-playerprofile\" title=\"MS Dhoni\">MS Dhoni<\/a>&#8216;s Chennai Super Kings up against the defending champions Gujarat Titans. Dhoni, who is chasing his 5th title as the captain of CSK, has been a part of the franchise ever since he was bought in the inaugural IPL 2008 auction. The man who had sold him in the bidding war back then, Richard Madley, posted a brilliant tweet ahead of the final of the 16th edition of the league, recalling the first auction.<\/p>\n<p>Madley had sold Dhoni after a bidding war for the wicket-keeper batter between CSK and Mumbai Indians saw his price rising from USD 400,000 to USD 900,000.<\/p>\n<p>In his tweet on Sunday, Madley called selling Dhoni the highlight of his career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selling #Dhoni in the first #IPL auction was a career highlight &amp; meeting him was very special. He signed this for my son @harrymadley6. Good luck today,&#8221; he tweeted along with a picture of Dhoni&#8217;s autographs for his son.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Selling <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dhoni?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dhoni<\/a> in the first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL<\/a> auction was a career highlight &amp; meeting him was very special.<br \/>He signed this for my son <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harrymadley6?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@harrymadley6<\/a><br \/>Good luck today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhistlePodu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhistlePodu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yellove?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yellove<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8P8vL9VooK\">pic.twitter.com\/8P8vL9VooK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Madley (@iplauctioneer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iplauctioneer\/status\/1662741101520846849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To make this occasion even more memorable, the &#8216;Captain Cool&#8217; will be making his 250th IPL appearance, his 11th final as a player and his 10th as a skipper.<\/p>\n<p>No other player has played 250 IPL matches and Dhoni is the first player to do so. Dhoni has made most appearances in IPL finals as a player and as a captain.<\/p>\n<p>In IPL, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has played for Chennai Super Kings and Rising Pune Supergiant.<\/p>\n<p>In 249 IPL matches so far, Dhoni has scored 5,082 runs at an average of 39.09 and a strike rate of 135.96 in 217 innings. His best score is 84* and he has scored 24 half-centuries. He is the seventh-highest run scorer in the league&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>For Chennai Super Kings, the right-handed batsmen have played 219 matches. In 190 innings he has 4508 runs with 22 half-centuries. His highest score was 84. The strike rate is 137.52 Dhoni&#8217;s batting average is 40.25.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>With ANI inputs<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tgs\">\n<p>Topics mentioned in this article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/ipl-2023\/selling-ms-dhoni-was-career-highlight-ipls-first-auctioneer-ahead-of-csk-vs-gt-final-4073527\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 final is set to kick-off on Sunday evening, with MS Dhoni&#8216;s Chennai Super Kings up against the defending champions Gujarat Titans. Dhoni, who is chasing his 5th title as the captain of CSK, has been a part of the franchise ever since he was bought in the inaugural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}