India, March 19 -- No offence, but MS Dhoni continuing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) seems like some sick joke Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are playing on their fans as well as the player.

Sometimes it feels like he is being blackmailed or being held hostage. How else can you explain his participation in the league year after year, when he has totally run out of steam, cutting a sorry figure at the same time?

It's a very smart and brainy player we are discussing here. Not like S Sreesanth or Prithvi Shaw. It's a player who is sworn by in the global cricketing circle, for his acumen behind the wicket as well as on the wicket. Whose match-finishing abilities, whose lightning-quick stumpings have become part of folklore.

And the man in ...