{"id":20227,"date":"2023-03-02T23:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=285518"},"modified":"2023-03-02T23:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T18:08:26","slug":"tata-ipl-2023-ms-dhoni-reaches-chennai-for-the-upcoming-season-fans-welcome-csk-captain-with-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2023-ms-dhoni-reaches-chennai-for-the-upcoming-season-fans-welcome-csk-captain-with-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2023: MS Dhoni reaches Chennai for the upcoming season; fans welcome CSK captain with flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a worldwide fan base, but nothing compares to his popularity in Chennai. Dhoni arrived in Tamil Nadu\u2019s capital city on Thursday to begin the Chennai Super Kings\u2019 preparation camp for the upcoming Indian Premier League season (IPL). When the 41-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman stepped out of Chennai International Airport, he was greeted warmly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fi\" dir=\"ltr\">Vaa Thalaivaaa \ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dhoni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Dhoni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MSDhoni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MSDhoni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yellove?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yellove<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chennai?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chennai<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricSuperFan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CricSuperFan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cmk43KIeIC\">pic.twitter.com\/cmk43KIeIC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WhistlePodu Army \u00ae \u2013 CSK Fan Club (@CSKFansOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSKFansOfficial\/status\/1631304931432083457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans showered flower petals on Dhoni as he exited the airport to catch a taxi to his hotel. Even police officers stationed at the airport flocked to Dhoni for selfies. A video of Dhoni\u2019s god-like entrance has gone viral on social media. Security officials can be seen escorting the CSK captain to his car in the video, with fans following him to take pictures. Dhoni is expected to join his teammates in a training camp at MA Chidambaram Stadium beginning tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/HYD_DhoniFans\/status\/1631307945609924609<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has a worldwide fan base, but nothing compares to his popularity in Chennai. Dhoni\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69,3221],"class_list":["post-20227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-tata-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}