Pakistan pacer Haris Rauf thanked MS Dhoni for the gift and wrote that the former India captain was "still winning hearts through his kind & goodwill gestures".

Speaking to PTI, Ambati Rayudu revealed that he would love to be picked by CSK for the upcoming IPL season.

Ruturaj Gaikwad is the fourth player after Virat Kohli, Prithvi Shaw and Devdutt Padikkal to smash four centuries in a single Vijay Hazare season.

Former West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo said that MS Dhoni personally played a big role in helping his career, and both of them have a great legacy at Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings.

IPL 2022: With CSK boasting a strong win percentage at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Viswanathan also hinted at the possibility of having a full-capacity Chepauk stadium during the upcoming season.

Dhoni retired from Test cricket December 2014. He scored 4876 in 90 Tests at an average of 38.09. He slammed 6 centuries and 33 fifties in his career.

Every IPL auction creates new millionaires in Indian cricket and the IPL retention on Monday had a similar impact as a bunch of young stars, who impressed last season, have been retained by their respective teams for huge amount of money.

Robin Uthappa feels Suresh Raina, who was not retained, will be one of the first guys that Chennai Super Kings will target in the IPL mega auction.

The likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Kane Williamson have been retained by their respective sides but there are a bunch of top rated batters who will be up for grabs.

As many as 27 players - 19 Indians and eight overseas cricketers - were retained by the eight existing Indian Premier League (IPL) teams during the retentions on Tuesday.

IPL retention: In a bit of a surprise Chennai Super Kings retained all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja for a price of Rs 16 crore, which was higher than that of current captainMahendra Singh Dhoni, who was retained by the four-time champions for Rs 12 crore.

IPL 2022 Retention Highlights: Ravindra Jadeja (16 crore) was CSK' first pick then MS Dhoni (12 crore). MI retained Rohit Sharma (16 crore), Bumrah (12 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (8 crore), and Pollard (6 crore). RCB kept Virat Kohli (15 crore), Glenn Maxwell (11 crore) and Mohammed Siraj (7 crore).

Royal Challengers Bangalore took to twitter a little while back and shared a post which had the detailed break-up of how the retentions work and the purse break-up in case teams decide to retain the maximum of 4 or less number of players.

India and Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Shardul Thakur got engaged to long-time girlfriend Mittali Parulkar in a private ceremony in Mumbai on Monday.

Amidst all the talk, former India and CSK batter S Badrinath has named the four players the four-time IPL champions should retain ahead of the mega auction next month.

The clock is ticking for the eight existing Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises as the deadline to name the players retained by them ahead of the mega auction before IPL 2022 nears.

IPL 2022: BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Saturday confirmed that Indian Premier League 2022 will be played in India.

Speaking at an event celebrating Chennai Super Kings' IPL 2021 title win, skipper MS Dhoni reached out to the franchise's fans.