Indian cricket team former skipper MS Dhoni has been away from the game for over a year now. The veteran wicket-keeper batsman last played for his national team in the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup. Just a few days after the World Cup got over, Mahi announced that he was taking a break to serve the Indian Army in Kashmir. Dhoni later missed series against South Africa, Bangladesh, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Australia.
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Former India cricketer and selector Roger Binny feels Dhoni is past his prime now and that is evident from the way he has been playing cricket in the last two seasons.
"He (MS Dhoni) has lost a bit of fitness. There are younger players coming through the system. He was good enough to pass on the gloves to the younger players which is good of him but yeah, I think he is past his best," Binny said during an interaction on Sportskeeda's Facebook page.
"Seeing him the last couple of seasons, he is easily past his best cricket which he has played, which we have seen him capable of doing," he added.
The IPL, which was earlier postponed by the BCCI due to coronavirus pandemic, is all set to take place in UAE from September 19 after the ICC decided to cancel 2020 T20 World Cup. According to Dhoni's teammates, Dhoni looked in good touch in the training sessions.
"Honestly speaking, whenever a cricketer makes a comeback after such a long break, people think that he will be a bit rusty. But I am sure he was doing something at Ranchi because when Dhoni landed in the camp, he didn't look rusty at all. His routine work was -- he played five-six balls and then used to clear the fence," CSK spinner Piyush Chawla told Aakash Chopra on the latter's YouTube channel, last month.
"He batted for long. In fact, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Dhoni and Murali Vijay....there were limited players in the camp and there were a number of bowlers. So everyone batted for long - 2-2:30 hours every day. Every batsman played 200-250 balls," he added.