IPL 10: N Srinivasan's prediction for CSK will make all die-hard fans happy

Former BCCI chairman and Chennai Super Kings owner N Srinivasan has said that the team will be back with a bang in IPL 2018 and MS Dhoni will be leading the charge again.

According to a report in Time of India, Srinivasan was quoted as saying, "If you are a CSK fan and are a cricket aficionado, you want to see MS Dhoni leading the side again in 2018. You want him to walk out wearing yellow. There is every possibility of that happening and next year we will be back with a bang. The absence from the competition has not affected the CSK brand at all."

Srinivasan was speaking at the Madras Advertising Club Awards in Chennai on Friday.

CSK are serving two-year IPL suspension as the consequences of the recommendations made by Justice RM Lodha commission.

Srinivasan said that MS Dhoni embraced the city of Chennai and fans were more than happy to oblige. He recalled that when they bid for former Indian skipper to lead the team, he had come fresh from winning World T20 championship in 2007. Srinivasan added that Dhoni's style of batting, his way of carrying the team on his shoulders took CSK's performance to new levels every year giving Chennai fans one more chance to chant the Whistle Podu anthem.

CSK lifted the Indian Premier League title twice in 2010 and then in 2011. But for the 2016 and now the 2017 editions, they will have to take the action from the sidelines.