IPL is about to start and fans are going crazy for their favorite cricketers. Chennai Super Kings players are leaving for the UAE from Chennai on Friday as they gear up for Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 which will be played from September 19 to November 10. MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja were spotted wearing CSK's yellow as they were heading to the Chennai airport earlier today.
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MS Dhoni, who announced his international retirement on August 15, was spotted with a clean-shaven look as he smiled for the paparazzi. Ravindra Jadeja, who reached Chennai on Thursday, also joined the batch of CSK players who will be landing in the UAE on Friday. A few of the players were wearing customized masks as they gear up to live cricket in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. CSK had a 5-day training camp in Chennai which ended on Thursday. It was during the training camp that Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket.
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Suresh Raina also followed suit as he stunned the cricket fraternity by bringing the curtains down on his career. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh will join the team in UAE a week later due to personal reasons while the likes of Faf du Plessis and Lungi Ngidi will land in the UAE in the first week of September. Dwayne Bravo, Imran Tahir and Mitchell Santner will head to the UAE after completing their Caribbean Premier League commitments as the tournament ends on September 10.
