{"id":649115,"date":"2026-05-04T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649115\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:50:09","slug":"poll-time-for-dhoni-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649115\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Time for Dhoni to retire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MS Dhoni is one of the most iconic and successful figures in IPL history &#8211; but is it time for the great man to retire.<\/p>\n<p>MS Dhoni is one of the most iconic and successful figures in IPL history \u2013 but is it time for the great man to retire.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoni led the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to five IPL titles in 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023. CSK have appeared in 10 finals altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In a record-breaking career, Dhoni has played 278 matches \u2013 an IPL record \u2013 and scored over 5,500 runs as a hard-hitting finisher in T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacricketmag.com\/klaasen-deadbats-proteas-return-talk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: IPL 2026 takes hit as viewership and ads fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a wicketkeeper, the 42-year-old has also effected over 200 dismissals.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dhoni has yet to feature for his franchise at IPL 2026, as he continues his recovery from a calf injury sustained ahead of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mihir Singh\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MS Dhoni is one of the most iconic and successful figures in IPL history &#8211; but is it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-649115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}