Dhoni treats other people’s rubbish as treasure: Hayden

MS is a magician. He takes other people’s trash and makes them cherish it.Hayden said he was a very skilled and motivated captain

New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a “magician” who can turn other people’s “garbage into treasure”, says the great Matthew Hayden, who also credits the former India captain’s unparalleled contribution to the CSK success story as making him a star in the team. “Almost irrelevant” for the future of .

Dhoni’s tactical genius was instrumental in CSK’s run to their 10th IPL final. He didn’t have the best bowling attack at the start of the game, but he has been able to get the best out of it. He was also widely praised for how he used Ajinkya Rahane and Shivam Dube in the batting department.

Dhoni played the entire campaign with a knee injury and he gave himself 8-9 months to decide the future of his game. Hayden, however, believes the World Cup-winning captain will not be in the next IPL.

“MS is a magician. He takes other people’s rubbish and makes them cherish. He is a very skilled and positive captain. He said some very interesting things, which I think not only sums up his humility and his time at Thailand. The truth about cricket represented by the Milnadu State Cricket Association,” Hayden said.

“The alignment between the association and the franchise, how strong it was in building that process. For me that’s MS. There’s a systematic way to look at things and work them out. He’s done that for India, He is doing it for the Chennai Super Kings. It hardly matters whether he plays next year or not. Personally I don’t think he will but he is MS Dhoni,” he said at an event organized by the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

With the rapid rise of T20 cricket around the world, it has become increasingly difficult for players to play all three formats at the same time. According to Hayden, this not only keeps players from getting into all formats, but also questions the future of the game, especially the 50-over version.

“The era of three format players is coming to an end. I would challenge the game around whether those formats are still viable. In my opinion, people are still enthusiastic about playing Test cricket, and the World Test Championship is a good example. Otherwise I would Will see a lot of T20 cricket.”

The 51-year-old also said players who have given up their national contracts to play cricket around the world cannot be blamed. “Tomorrow’s kids will inevitably want to play sport and they want to play franchise cricket. We’ve seen a lot of players, especially from marginalized communities, for example cricketers from the West Indies , they became very active in other sports and were poached to other sports for their athleticism. Falling out of favor from the beauty side of the 80s.”