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IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Chennai Super Kings fans were left full of joy and jubilation as soon as BCCI announced the new retention rules ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction.

The new policy included the reintroduction of the uncapped player rule which boosted the CSK's thought of getting to retain MS Dhoni for one more season.

However, there has been no news of CSK establishing contact with the talisman or Dhoni himself confirming the same has come out yet.

Notably, the teams are allowed to now retain up to six players, with a maximum of five capped players and two uncapped players, through retention or the Right to Match (RTM) option.

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On the other hand, as per the uncapped player rule, Indian-capped players can be classified as uncapped if they haven’t played international cricket in the past five years.

In that case, Dhoni, who ended his international career way back in 2019, will be recognised as an uncapped player in the upcoming Mega Auction, making retaining the former captain a much easier and cheaper task for the five-time IPL champions.

But, recent talks with CSK CEO Kasi Vishwanathan revealed some concerning details.

In a recent interaction with the media, Vishwanthan stated that it was still ‘too early’ for the franchise to finalise plans with Dhoni as they are yet to contact the veteran wicketkeeper-batter.

“We are not sure at this stage. We might not even use it for MS Dhoni. It’s still too early to comment on this because we haven’t had discussions with him,” stated Kasi Viswanathan to TOI.

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“Dhoni was in the US and we haven’t had discussions yet. Now I am travelling this week, so there is a possibility of some discussions in the coming week. So there could be some clarity then,” Kasi reinstated.

“We are hopeful of him playing but it’s a call Dhoni will himself make.”

CSK fans are left waiting as the deadline of October 31 for IPL teams to announce their retention approaches.