Virender Sehwag predicts Chennai's fate under MS Dhoni in Indian T20 League 2022

Chennai haven't really been at their best in the Indian T20 league 2022. Ravindra Jadeja didn't really have a great time as Chennai's captain as the yellow army lost six out of their first eight games under his leadership. Recently, the all-rounder handed over the captaincy back to MS Dhoni.

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In just his first match as captain in the 2022 edition, Dhoni led the defending champions to a 13-run win over Hyderabad. Thus, they have now won three out of their nine games, and still, stand a chance of making it to the playoffs of this edition. Taking Dhoni's legendary record as Chennai's captain into account, he could very well take them to the knockout stages of the tournament.

Thus, Virender Sehwag felt the same. He stated that Dhoni could lead the Chennai-based franchise to six consecutive wins in a row and thus, take them to the playoffs. He cited the Commonwealth Bank series as an example, and remembered India's historic wins in Australia.

"I have been with that man since 2005 and I have seen Indian cricket change under him. We used to lose the games we had under control and under his captaincy, we won games in which we were on the brink of losing. We had never thought that we'll travel to Australia and beat them 2-0 in two finals of the triangular tournament and we won that in 2008. Especially, after we were beaten in the Test series.

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After that, we won several knockouts, home series under him, the ones which we used to lose before but they turned into victories. So keeping that in mind, I am saying that it can happen ," said Sehwag, while speaking to Cricbuzz.

It is to be noted that the legendary opener was Dhoni's deputy in the Indian for a long time. As for Chennai, their next game is scheduled to take place on May 4, against Bangalore. Thus, with the return of Dhoni as Chennai's skipper, the fans of the franchise have got a ray of hope.