Ahead of the IPL 2025, Ravichandran Ashwin, one of the established spinners in the game praised former Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain MS Dhoni for bringing him back to the franchise.

During a book launch event of CSK's book "Leo- The Untold Story of Chennai Super Kings", Ravichandran Ashwin expressed gratitude towards Dhoni. Taking to X, the veteran spinner said, "I invited MS for my 100th Test to hand over the memento. I wanted to make that my last Test. Unfortunately, he couldn't come, but I didn't think you'd hand one the gift of getting me back to CSK. It's a much better one, so than you MS."