Chennai has a strong squad. Chennai's captain Raturaj Gaikwad, however, is getting adequate support from the experienced MS Dhoni. So it is expected that Chennai's performance will continue. Moreover, the players are also in good form now. I consider Chennai team as the most favorite for this year's IPL title.
Now, in IPL MS Dhoni didn’t have any interest in playing as he is the captain and if he wanted to himself an opener but when his interest has finished as we are seeing. In the last match, and before the last matches of Chennai Super Kings, he didn’t come to play at when some wickets went down. Even yesterday 6 wickets were down but he did not come to play,
I think in this IPL, we can relate that only for the name he is playing but he actually has accepted his retirement inside him (at least this is what is seen from his body language) and he didn’t want to play more for Chennai Super Kings. Now, we can only see him before the stumps according to the current situation of matches.