{"id":1166,"date":"2020-08-13T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=32824"},"modified":"2020-08-13T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:47:56","slug":"i-think-we-can-manage-without-dhoni-says-former-indian-cricketer-aakash-chopra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-think-we-can-manage-without-dhoni-says-former-indian-cricketer-aakash-chopra\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI think we can manage without Dhoni\u201d says Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MS Dhoni, who will turn 40 in July next year, has not played international cricket since the World Cup 2019. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) CEO Kasi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/music-to-the-ears-of-ms-dhoni-fans-csk-ceo-confirms-ms-dhoni-likely-to-lead-the-franchise-even-in-2022\/\">Viswanathan<\/a> mentioned the presence of MS Dhoni in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2021 and probably in 2022 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai Super Kings captain is gearing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl-2020-almost-just-a-month-to-go-enthusiasm-and-excitement-prevails\/\">IPL<\/a> 2020 which is set to be held in the UAE from September 19. Talking of seeing him in future matches, some have raised eyebrows in doubt on his effectiveness in play due to the age factor. \u201cI think we can manage without him, let\u2019s be honest. Because we are talking about 2021,\u201d Aakash Chopra said on his Youtube channel.<\/p>\n<p>While on the other hand, former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson told TOI in an interview, \u201cMS still loves playing. He is an evergreen cricketer and it feels like he just doesn\u2019t age. Look, with the kind of skills he has and the hard yards he puts in, MS can go on and play into his 40s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Indian cricketer has a view that MS Dhoni might not be interested to return to play.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[175,69],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-m-s-dhoni","tag-ms-dhoni"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}