"My last T20 will be in Chennai..." In this 2021 speech, Dhoni promised to give back the love to cricket-crazy Chennai fans...
🎥: Chennai Super Kings
🎥: Chennai Super Kings
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00:00Chennai taught me a lot. Tamil Nadu taught me a lot when it came to how to conduct myself, how to appreciate the game.
00:11Digardhoni, you may be from the state of Jharkhand, but we the people of Tamil Nadu love you.
00:17I'm more like a wanderer, you know. My parents came from UP. It was initially UP, then it became Uttarakhand.
00:32I was born in Ranchi, which was Bihar, then later on became Jharkhand. Got my job at the age of 18 with railways in West Bengal, you know, Kharagpur.
00:41And then I came to Chennai.
00:47It's the fan following that CSK has got.
01:16But I won't like to limit the fan following only to Tamil Nadu. I think it goes much beyond that. It goes beyond the state of Tamil Nadu and it goes beyond the border of India.
01:46Whether we are playing at Chepauk or we go to Bangalore, we go to Mumbai, we go to Delhi or when we have played at Durban, Joburg or Dubai, we have got the most support, you know, wherever we needed them.
02:13I would like to thank the fans for supporting us the way they have done. Even through the lean patch, two years we were missing and those two years were the most talked about years when it came to CSK in the social media.
02:27That's what fans are there for. When we are not doing well, when we are not there, they backed us.
02:32I have always planned my cricket. You know, my last game that I played was in Ranchi. The ODI version, the last home game was at my hometown in Ranchi. So hopefully my last T20, you know, it will be in Chennai.
02:48Whether it's next year or in five years time, we don't really know.