Dhoni & Monu Kumar board chartered flight for IPL training in Chennai

RANCHI: Former Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Chennai Super Kings teammate from Ranchi, Monu Kumar, left for Chennai on a special chartered flight from

Birsa Munda International

airport on Friday afternoon to take part in a

training camp

in the southern city ahead of

IPL 2020

.

Dhoni, who arrived at the airport minutes before the take-off, was spotted in a yellow T-shirt and black trousers and went straight to aircraft which was carrying other players of Chennai Super Kings. Earlier in the afternoon, Dhoni’s famous SUV Hummer arrived at the airport and seven bags carrying his cricket kits and other luggage were dropped at the airport by one of his staffs.

Monu Kumar, who is a bowler with the CSK, arrived at the airport an hour before Dhoni and spoke to media persons gathered outside the departure gate. “All the players of Chennai Super Kings are reaching the franchise home ground for a preparatory training camp before we go to UAE for IPL 2020. We are hopeful that we will perform well and Chennai will emerge as the champions,” Kuma said.

Dhoni and Kumar boarded a special chartered flight of CSK which was arranged by the franchise to ferry their players to their home ground. The flight arrived at Birsa Munda International airport around 1:55pm and took off around 2:35pm. Earlier in the day, the plane had taken off from Delhi with Suresh Raina, Deepak Chahar, Karn Sharma and Piyush Chawla on board the aircraft.