{"id":505833,"date":"2024-03-20T11:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=505833"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:24:46","slug":"ipl-2024-ms-dhoni-helicopter-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/ipl-2024-ms-dhoni-helicopter-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni practices his iconic helicopter shot in nets ahead of IPL 2024, video goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of the opening IPL 2024 match at Chepauk Stadium versus Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), legendary Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned back time when he smashed his iconic helicopter shot during a training session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batting coach Michael Hussey watched Dhoni closely as he enjoyed himself while smashing the CSK bowlers in the nets. Dhoni, who was sported in his long hairstyle again, looked very skilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many speculations that this may be Dhoni&#8217;s final IPL season, and he appears ready to make it special for both himself and his big\u00a0fan base across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MS Dhoni with a helicopter shot in the practice session. <br><br>&#8211; MSD is preparing hard for the IPL.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6YDYRK8QQy\">pic.twitter.com\/6YDYRK8QQy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mufaddal_vohra\/status\/1770138738489802982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On social media, a video of Dhoni smashing the CSK bowlers in the nets has gone viral. In the video, the celebrated wicketkeeper batter can be seen hitting his famous helicopter shot after batting coach Hussey gave him some advice regarding his batting. A user said can&#8217;t take eyes off from MSD&#8217;s helicopter shot. Another said Thala in action. A third user said MSD is practicing Helicopter shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tn8FAgihZj\">pic.twitter.com\/Tn8FAgihZj<\/a><br><br>Msd practicing Helicopter shot<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KLRahul?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KLRahul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JustoceForElvish?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JustoceForElvish<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SamathaRuthPrabhu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SamathaRuthPrabhu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShraddhaKapoor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShraddhaKapoor<\/a> Alan Walker UP Police Mirzapur RCBChampions <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChennaiSuperKings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChennaiSuperKings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RCB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CSKvsRCB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CSKvsRCB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ViratKohli%F0%93%83%B5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ViratKohli\ud80c\udcf5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Vikas Agarwal (@VikasAgarwal072) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VikasAgarwal072\/status\/1770163910995321239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following his\u00a0knee injury, Dhoni used to start the season batting in the lower middle order in order to reduce his workload. After leading CSK to the joint-most fifth title, he underwent surgery and continued to play the entire season with an injury. But in order to enjoy their batting for a longer time, fans are expecting him to go up in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After undergoing knee surgery at Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai last year, Dhoni&nbsp;tirelessly worked hard&nbsp;to regain his fitness in order to prepare for the upcoming season of IPL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a interview CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan spok about Dhoni and said he has recovered well from his knee injury. He has begun training and is going through his rehab programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening match of the IPL 2024 will take place at Chepauk on March 22, with CSK defending their championship against Royal Challengers Bangalore.<br><br>On March 2, they began their training camp. Initially, players like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, and Prashant Solanki joined the camp, and eventually the other players did as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening match of the IPL 2024 will take place at Chepauk on March 22, with MS Dhoni-led CSK defending their championship against Royal Challengers Bangalore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":505837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6,110599],"tags":[162351,161401,2828,162352,1902],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20115207\/ezgif-4-89189f7d5f-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505833"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=505833"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=505833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->