Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) batting coach Michael Hussey has made a big revelation that MS Dhoni deliberately avoids coming to stadiums on match days as he doesn’t want to be a distraction for players.The former CSK skipper is nursing a calf injury. He has been coming to pre-match net sessions and training with the rest of the squad, but hasn’t shown up during the matches.
“He’s such a team-oriented guy,” Hussey said in the pre-match presser on Friday (May 1) ahead of the second round of the El Clásico clash against MI. “He always wants what’s best for the team, and he was worried that if he came, there’d be a bit too much of a distraction. Obviously, the cameras would be on him a lot.
“The crowd would be cheering for him and things like that. And he really wanted the team to just be able to go about their job, do our thing. Whether that’s right or wrong, that’s not my decision to sort of make. But that’s the thinking behind with Dhoni not wanting to come to the matches.”
Michael Hussey opens up on MS Dhoni’s camaraderie with players
Hussey said Dhoni is eager to return to the field and has been sharing inputs with the youngsters during training. He also mentioned that the five-time IPL-winning captain keeps the training environment light.
“Obviously, he’s been watching very closely back home,” said Hussey. “I personally love having him around the dressing room. He offers so much wisdom. He offers so much confidence to the rest of the guys. So he’s obviously at training all the time and always a bubbly personality around training and offers a lot of his experience to the players there. But it was just a case he didn’t want to see himself as a distraction to the rest of the team and that’s why he decided on game day just to sort of stay away.”
