3 Indians Likely to Play Their Last IPL in 2024: The auction for the IPL 2024 season was held on Tuesday at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. This was the first time an IPL auction was held outside India and also included spectators.
According to reports, the IPL 2024 season is likely to start on March 22 next year and end by the last week of May, giving the players about a week’s time to freshen up for the T20 World Cup in June.
The IPL 2024 is going to be a watershed season because three of the biggest and most prominent players in the league could be playing in their last IPL season.
3 Indians Likely to Play Their Last IPL in 2024
MS Dhoni
While speculation about MS Dhoni’s last IPL season has been going on since his international retirement in 2020, IPL 2024 certainly seems to be the last tournament for the CSK captain.
MS Dhoni will be nearing the age of 43 by the end of the IPL next year (his birthday falls in July), and it’s already incredible that he played, hit sixes, and kept wickets throughout the IPL 2023 season at the age of 42 while carrying a knee injury.
At the end of the tournament, in which Dhoni led his side to a 5th IPL trophy, he hinted that he wished to play one more season for the fans.
Rohit Sharma
36-year-old Rohit Sharma has already lost the Mumbai Indians captaincy as the MI management propelled the 30-year-old Hardik Pandya to the helm.
Rohit has had disappointing returns with the bat in the last few IPL seasons: Rohit has not crossed the 400-run mark in the last four IPL seasons. He also hogs INR 16 crore in MI’s purse.
It is very unlikely that MI would want to retain Rohit Sharma ahead of the IPL 2025 mega-auction; Hardik, Bumrah, Suryakumar, and maybe Tim David/Dewald Brevis might be MI’s retention choices, leaving Rohit no option but to either go back in the auction pool or retire – the latter seems a more likely choice as then he could focus more on Test cricket.
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Virat Kohli
It would be very tough for the BCCI, the IPL, and the fans to see all three of Dhoni, Rohit, and Virat Kohli bow out of the IPL together. But there’s a decent chance of that happening.
The 35-year-old Virat Kohli may target the T20 World Cup 2024 in the West Indies as his swansong from the shortest format, which would allow him to put all of his energies into the two longer formats.
An IPL legend, Kohli is the only player in IPL history to play all 16 seasons—and 17 next year—for a single franchise, Royal Challengers Bangalore; however, he has yet to lift the trophy even once.
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