The inaugural match of the IPL 2023 will be played tonight at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. CSK and GT will square off on March 31 at 7 p.m.

The IPL 2023 excitement is about to begin. The opening match of this huge cricket festival, which will run roughly 52 days, will be played today at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Today’s match pits the four-time champion Chennai Super Kings against the reigning IPL champion Gujarat Titans. Nonetheless, significant and new records will be broken starting today. The opening ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. today, followed by the coin toss at 7 p.m. At half past seven o’clock,
the first ball of the IPL season will be thrown.

Now, over a year later, MS Dhoni, former captain of Team India and captain of CSK in the IPL, will tread the field once more. As a result, supporters are more interested in the game. Likewise, if MS Dhoni bats today, he is already on the verge of breaking a major record in his maiden match. Let’s have a look at the record that Dhoni will be aiming for today and see what he has to do to break it.

MS Dhoni has been playing since before the IPL began. He joined Chennai Super Kings in 2008 and continues to play for them to this day. While it is another thing because when CSK was suspended for two years, he was seen with Rising Pune Supergiants, but when CSK returns after two years, he joins Chennai again and wins the IPL trophy for the club. Let’s take a look at his numbers now.

MS Dhoni has played 234 matches in the IPL and scored 4978 runs. MS Dhoni has an IPL average of 39.20 and a strike rate of 135. That means, if MA Dhoni scores 22 more runs today, he would become the fifth player in IPL history to reach 5,000 runs. The unique aspect is that just six players in the world have been able to attain this rank to yet. MS Dhoni will now become the eighth player to achieve this feat.

When it comes to the player who has scored the most runs in the history of the IPL, former RCB skipper Virat Kohli ranks first. In 223 games, he has scored 6624 runs. It is now predicted that he would become the first player to complete seven thousand runs in this year’s IPL. Shikhar Dhawan
comes in at number two and will skipper the Punjab Kings this time.

He has scored 6244 runs in two hundred and six IPL appearances. When it comes to number three, there is David Warner. In 162 games, he has scored 5881 runs. He is the IPL’s leading overseas run- scorer. Rohit Sharma is ranked fourth on this list, having scored 5879 runs in 227 matches. Suresh
Raina is ranked fifth, having scored 5528 runs in 205 matches. But he has now retired from the IPL as well. At the same time, AB de Villiers, who has 5162 runs in 184 matches, is not playing in the IPL.

It remains to be seen if MS Dhoni will join the 5,000 club today or whether he would have to wait for a few more games.

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