MS Dhoni has arrived in Chennai for their preparatory camp, 17 days before the new IPL season will kick off at Chepauk on March 22. Having gone through a medical procedure to his left side knee in June, in the wake of driving Chennai Super Rulers to their fifth IPL title last season, Dhoni will get back to activity this IPL. Dhoni, 42, had played the whole IPL 2023 season with a vigorously tied knee and however he was quick behind the stumps, he frequently battled before it while running between the wickets. Talking uninvolved of the send off of the Lesser Super Rulers competition, CSK's grassroots program in Chennai in December, their President Kasi Viswanathan had said: "He [Dhoni] is doing great at this point. He has begun his recovery and is working in the exercise center." CSK experienced a physical issue blow even before the new season started, with New Zealand's Devon Conway set to miss essentially the main portion of the competition in the wake of going through thumb a medical procedure. In the injury-implemented shortfall of Conway, CSK just have one back-up wicketkeeper to Dhoni as Aravelly Avanish, who had as of late played for India in the Under-19 World Cup in South Africa. CSK's pre-season camp had begun on Walk 2 after various nearby players had shown up in Chennai on Walk 1. The nearby contingent incorporates player Ruturaj Gaikwad, who as of late recuperated from a finger injury to show up for Maharashtra in the last round of the Ranji Prize in February, and seamer Deepak Chahar, who has not played any cutthroat cricket since December 2023. Gaikwad's Mahrashtra partners Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary and Prashant Solanki have likewise continued preparing at Chepauk alongside Delhi seamer Simarjeet Singh and Chhattisgarh left-arm turn bowling allrounder Ajay Mandal. CSK, the reigning champs, will confront Imperial Challengers Bangalore in the initial round of IPL 2024 at Chepauk, on Walk 22. The IPL has delivered a halfway timetable containing an underlying arrangement of 21 matches between Walk 22 and April 7. The last is supposed to be played on May 26, with only five days among that and the initial match of the men's T20 World Cup, to be played in the USA and the Caribbean from June 1.