New Delhi: MS Dhonis current performance is a cause for concern despite his loyal fanbase. While his wicketkeeping remains excellent his batting prowess has diminished. Age (43) and apparent physical limitations are affecting his contributions. His lower batting position and inability to consistently finish matches are hindering his teams performance and potentially impacting his overall legacy. Despite late-innings cameos MS Dhonis contributions werent enough to secure victories for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their recent matches. Against Royal Challengers Bangalore his unbeaten 30 off 16 balls couldnt prevent a 50-run defeat. Two days later versus Rajasthan Royals he scored 16 but CSK still lost suggesting broader team performance issues. While Ruturaj Gaikwad and Ravindra Jadeja showed promise with their scores their relatively low strike rates raise concerns about CSKs batting approach. Harbhajan Singh suggests Chennai Super Kings inconsistent team strategy particularly regarding MS Dhonis role is significantly hindering the franchises performance. He cites statistics indicating a decline in Dhonis effectiveness compared to his past achievements. I would like to present some stats. Dhoni sahab bahut bade khiladi hain par jab who aaye hain match khatam ho chuka tha (Dhoni has been a great player but by the time he came out to bat the match was all but over). Whenever Dhoni has chased since IPL 2023 in winning causes he has scored just 3 runs in 9 balls without a single boundary or six. But in losing causes Dhoni has scored 166 runs in 84 balls with 13 fours and 13 sixes. This means that Dhoni averages just 8 in matches CSK have won while in the games lost his average is 49. Who wants to watch matches lost? And this I think is a major issue CSK needs to fix Harbhajan said on his YouTube channel. The team management needs to look at this differently. Send Dhoni up and leave him alone. Tell him to smash because if he scores runs then that would matter. Otherwise there isnt much to nitpick. He still smashes them but these stats arent materialising. Harbhajan Singh criticized Chennai Super Kings (CSK) recent strategic decisions particularly Gaikwads middle-order placement and Conways exclusion from the starting lineup. He highlighted CSKs past success with Gaikwad and Conway opening and questioned the current team composition given their limited roles. Gaikwad has pushed himself down. He is such a good opener a successful opener. CSK have always had very good openers – be it Matthew Hayden or Brendon McCullum or Devon Conway. Which reminds me he is in the squad too but hes not playing. I cant figure out how theyre making this team. They have preferred Craig Overton over Conway when they have such a good stock of Indian bowlers Harbhajan pointed out. Make these guys play higher and keep Rachin Ravindra Jadeja. Then at least their batting would look strong. Right now its like when Shivam Dube gets out it feels as if its all over. They have no batter who at will can hit fours and sixes. Ruturaj played well but he lacked intent. Even Jadejas innings was slow. He too couldnt strike those big shots.