MS Dhoni watches Rafael Nadal’s match at Wimbledon; picture goes viral

MS Dhoni watches Rafael Nadal’s match at Wimbledon; picture goes viral

MS Dhoni

Today is MS Dhoni’s birthday and just before he turned 41-years-old, this cricket legend attended the match of the tennis legend Rafael Nadal’s match at Wimbledon on Wednesday. Nadal was playing against Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinal of the grand slam.

Dhoni is currently in London where he celebrated his 12th wedding anniversary with wife Sakshi Singh Dhoni. He will celebrate his birthday in London itself.

Nadal defeated Fritz in five sets and to progress to the semi-finals. Football icon David Beckham and another India cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar were also in attendance for the match.

Wimbledon’s twitter handle shared a post with Dhoni’s picture with the caption: ” An Indian icon watching on.”

See their post below:

Earlier, Dhoni’s IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings also posted the same with the post: “Yellove All! viewing the (goat’s picture)!”

The 22-time grand slam champion had to the take a medical time-out in the second set but went on to win the match 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (10/4). The match lasted for four hours and 21 minutes.

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MS Dhoni in IPL 2022

MS Dhoni
MS Dhoni

Age is the factor Indian cricket lovers will not be watching MS Dhoni playing cricket in the years to come. He shocked everyone when he decided to step down from captaincy just two days before the start of the 15th edition of IPL 2022. This saw Ravindra Jadeja handling the duties of the captain but he was under a lot of pressure, given that he never captained any sides before. CSK also had a worst season and Jadeja then relinquished captaincy with the reason that he wants to concentrate on his game more.

That saw MS Dhoni handling the captaincy responsibilities again. But still, that didn’t help CSK win more matches and the four-time-champions ended up being at the 9th position in the points table, just above their arch-rival Mumbai Indians.

Dhoni’s continuation in IPL is always a talk of the town but he had hinted in one of matches that he will be there for the next season in 2023. That season might also be one of the most beloved cricketer’s last appearance.

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