IPL 2020: 3 Indian players whose T20 World Cup spot could depend on their IPL performance 

#1 MS Dhoni

MS Dhoni

This will be a very tricky decision to make for the selectors. MS Dhoni hasn’t turned out for India since the team’s World Cup 2019 semi-final exit against New Zealand. He hasn’t been given a new contract by the BCCI either.

However, India’s World Cup and World T20-winning captain hasn’t announced his retirement from international cricket. One doesn't really know what to make of the entire suspense.

Outgoing chairman of selectors MSK Prasad had sometime back stated that India had moved past Dhoni. Head coach Ravi Shastri, however, contradicted the statement, claiming that it will all depend on Dhoni’s performance in the IPL.

“There is an IPL coming. Uske baad tum Dekho. Everyone will know. (Then you’ll see. Everyone will know) He will know, selectors will know, the captain will know to see him, and more important than anything else he will know. What I’m trying to tell the people is he is the last person to impose himself on anything. You know him. I know him,” Shastri said in an interview to Sportstar.

On the another hand, former Indian captain Kapil Dev opined that while it would be difficult for Dhoni to make a comeback, the IPL could make a difference. “If you haven’t played cricket for so long then I don’t think you can come back from anywhere. But he still has IPL, his form there will be important and selectors should see what is best for the country,” Kapil told ABP News.

Dhoni himself has maintained pin-drop silence over the question every Indian cricket fan and critic is asking.

Fans in New Zealand clearly missed MSD in the T20Is

He will yet again lead Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, and if he manages to impress, he might get one last shot at glory. Dhoni's IPL record speaks for itself - 4,432 runs in 190 games at an average of 42.20 and a strike rate of 137.85.

How much more he has left in the tank, we will know in a couple of months.