{"id":12354,"date":"2026-04-16T18:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:17:41","slug":"130312899-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=12354","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Dhoni set to be back in action next week | Cricket News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130315042,imgsize-175508,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ms-dhoni.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Dhoni set to be back in action next week\" title=\"MS Dhoni (PTI Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CHENNAI: The wait to see MS Dhoni in action will likely be over next week. According to CSK sources, Dhoni\u2019s rehabilitation is on track and he could be available either for the game against Mumbai Indians on April 23 at the Wankhede or the rescheduled match against Gujarat Titans on April 26 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"strong\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Dhoni had suffered a calf injury in practice a week before the IPL, ruling him out of the first three weeks of the league. CSK have a game against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday but he won\u2019t be playing that one. \u201cHe is still doing his rehab and we don\u2019t want to take any chances with his fitness,\u201d CSK sources said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Dhoni has been batting at the nets regularly, working on his range hitting. Once fully fit, it will be interesting to see how CSK use him. Sanju Samson has been doing the wicketkeeping and it is likely that he will continue, meaning Dhoni could come in as an \u2018Impact Player\u2019.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/top-stories\/ipl-2026-dhoni-set-to-be-back-in-action-next-week\/articleshow\/130312899.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The wait to see MS Dhoni in action will likely be over next week&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2339,29781,10812,29944,29941,15702,29943,21696,2341,29942],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-chennai-super-kings-updates","tag-csk","tag-csk-news","tag-dhoni-rehabilitation-news","tag-ipl-2026-schedule","tag-m-s-dhoni","tag-ms-dhoni-injury-update","tag-ms-dhoni-ipl-2026","tag-mumbai-indians-vs-csk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}