IPL 2020 | Amazing how MS Dhoni keeps faith in experienced players, exclaims Sanjay Manjrekar

With the trading window closed on Friday, the final list of players released and retained or traded by each IPL franchise started to come out. And once again, as most other teams get rid of their veterans, CSK has decided to retain old stars like Shane Watson and Dwayne Bravo. 

"CSK with Dhoni at the helm is amazing, the way he has managed to get results with the ageing players. CSK have released fringed players but not the likes of Shane Watson or DJ Bravo, you know these are the guys who are ageing but MS Dhoni just keeps the faith in those players," he said,” Manjrekar said on Game Plan show on Star Sports, reported IANS.

The former batsman further noted that the decision to keep Deepak Chahar while releasing Mohit Sharma has to do with the former rising to the challenges he is tasked with by the team. 

"Look at the players that they have released, they will get a sizeable amount from Mohit Sharma, he was a hit n miss and didn't play as many matches. Deepak Chahar coming in has really made matters so much easier but none of the ageing players has been released," Manjrekar added.

Meanwhile, the limelight also shifted to RCB, who released the legendary Dale Steyn and most of their international players besides, but head coach Mike Hesson gave a clear explanation for the rationale behind the franchise’s decision. 

"We are really pleased with the players we have retained and two key releases from RCB are Dale Steyn and Marcus Stoinis. Dale Steyn is an excellent legend of the game but keeping his injuries in mind he seemed to be high risk to retain hence we have unfortunately looked to release him. We let Marcus Stoinis go as part of our budget requirements, at Rs 6.2 crore it's a huge part of our budget so we've had to release Marcus for this coming year and now our planning is for this year's auction," Hesson said.