http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 takes positives from Chennai's early exit – Cricket News Update
The bruised and battered Chennai skipper, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, takes positives from his side’s early exit in the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 tournament as he said that the early oust from the high profile championship will give the Men in Blue time
to rest ahead of the critical home series against England.
Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings, the defending champions, faced a humiliating first round exit from the multi million tournament after finishing at the bottom of the CLT20’s group A with only one win from 4 games. However, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, fresh from a
humiliating winless tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749, reckoned the champions league oust as a “blessing in disguise”.
"That's the only blessing in disguise, a few days off, not that we have earned it, but a bit of rest will help us," said the Chennai Super Kings’ skipper while talking to media reporters after his side’s 46-run defeat at the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-South-Wales-c823.
It has been almost one year that the Ranchi boy is consistently playing cricket. The only break he took during the hectic one year came during http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 had led a
second string Indian squad during that ODI series.
The hectic 12 months of Indian cricket team started with Australia's tour of India in October last year which was followed by a home series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 before coming
back home for a triumphant World Cup.
Days after lifting the coveted World Cup trophy, Indian players started playing in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL), and soon after the month-and-a-half long IPL, the Indian players landed in the Caribbean for three Tests, five One Day Internationals
and a one off T20 International.
The West Indies tour was followed by a winless two-month long tour of England. And now after playing in the Champions league, the Indian players will be welcoming England at home on October 14, just four days after the CLT20 final on October 9.
India will play five ODIs and a T20 international against England during the home series.
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