{"id":224843,"date":"2026-05-09T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224843"},"modified":"2026-05-09T23:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T23:59:13","slug":"ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224843","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Former India star backs MS Dhoni to bat higher than no.8 for CSK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara has suggested that veteran wicketkeeper-batter MS Dhoni should be promoted higher up the batting order for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season.<br \/>\nPujara believes Dhoni\u2019s presence could have a much bigger influence on matches if he gets more time at the crease instead of arriving in the final few overs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/odishatv.in\/sports\/ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no8-for-csk-11210250\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara has suggested that veteran wicketkeeper-batter MS Dhoni should be promoted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk.webp",1280,719,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-768x431.webp",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-1024x575.webp",640,359,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk.webp",1280,719,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk.webp",1280,719,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-1024x575.webp",1024,575,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224843-ipl-2026-former-india-star-backs-ms-dhoni-to-bat-higher-than-no-8-for-csk-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}