Pant ignored the selectorial snub to celebrate the year-end holiday season with Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The BCCI chief said the former India captain is not being selected as the selectors do not want to tamper with the wining combination.
CSK take on defending champions Gujarat Titans on Tuesday.
While the move resulted in Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer losing out on their annual BCCI contract, Badrinath lauded the BCCI.
'I am excited to join CSK again.'
Zaheer named 16 players in his squad, with the caveat that only one player between Gujarat Titans' captain Shubman Gill and Rajasthan Royals' opener Yashasvi Jaiswal will be selected as Rohit Sharma's opening partner.
As Ravindra Jadeja struck the winning runs, the entire CSK dugout erupted with joy.
Ahead of the start of India's 3-match T20I series against New Zealand, Hardik Pandya and his mates -- Washington Sundar, Umran Malik, Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Shardul Thakur -- were spotted shirtless -- much like what Salman Khan used to do in the late 1990s and early 2000s -- at a lovely beach.
Swapnil Kusale fought his way back to win the bronze in his very first appearance at the Olympic Games.
Moeen Ali said he has no issues with his spin being used sparingly by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the Chennai Super Kings all-rounder helped his team to victory over Lucknow Super Giants.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is gearing up for IPL 2023 and we were zapped by his bulging biceps at one of the net sessions in Chennai.
IMAGES from the IPL 2023, Qualifier 1 match played between Chennai Super Kings and Gujarat Titans in Chennai on Tuesday.
'Gautam Gambhir and Morne Morkel will need to provide Rohit with more inputs like whether to bowl bouncers or bowl round the wicket or whether we are allowing the game to drift.'
While Dhoni lead the Pune Franchise in the first season, he was replaced by Smith for the 2017 season after the wicketkeeper-batter stepped down from India captaincy in January 2017.
'It was a very emotional moment for me because this fellow has made immense contributions to Indian cricket.'
'Rohit Sharma could be given back the captaincy from Hardik Pandya.'
'The CT is a critically important tournament in world cricket because the One Day World Cup is only once in every four years. It is great because it breaks up those four years.'
This was Mahendra Singh Dhoni's first appearance at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium and he was certainly showered with a lot of love
"We were used to seeing that from Dhoni but even those little touches of his where he makes a fielder, a player feel 7 feet tall, are the touches that make him stand out from the other."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's waxwork at the Chamundeshwari Wax Museum in Mysuru has left fans in a tizzy.
The bids on Rishabh Pant could well soar like his audacious no-look six in the ongoing Perth Test, as he seems poised to become the highest paid player among the 577 who will go under the hammer at the two-day IPL mega auction, starting in Jeddah on Sunday.
Now Captain Cool he may be on the cricket field but outside it is the ultimate Daddy Cool.
Chennai Super Kings will look to step up the pace in the middle overs and hope their inspirational skipper M S Dhoni takes the field despite a knee niggle against fierce rivals Royal Challengers Bangalore in the eagerly awaited Southern derby in the IPL, in Bengaluru, on Monday.
As Chennai Super Kings clinched a comfortable win over Delhi Capitals, Ziva Dhoni was once again lighting up the stands.
A little over four years since India lost that match by 18 runs and crashed out of the World Cup, Dhoni revealed it was at that moment his time in international cricket was over.
Manoj Tiwary, who made a century against the West Indies in Chennai in 2011, was dropped for the next 14 matches under Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The legendary skipper plays his 200th match for CSK on Wednesday, and to mark the milestone, Dhoni was presented with a memento by frannchise owner N Srinivasan.
Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul and his Chennai Super Kings counterpart Ruturaj Gaikwad have been fined Rs 12 lakh each as their teams maintained a slow over-rate in their Indian Premier League match in Lucknow on Friday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's tactical genius has played a big part in CSK reaching their 10th IPL final.
Gulf Oil Lubricants wanted to recruit a woman's cricketer as brand ambassador -- MSD and Hardik Pandya are its other product plenipotentiaries -- signing Smriti was a no brainer.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni or Rishabh Pant? Whose knock did you enjoy most?
Sunil Gavaskar named Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the best captain in the history of the IPL.
Delhi Capitals outclass champions Chennai Super Kings by 20 runs for their first victory in IPL 2024.
Thaala -- as Dhoni is known to all CSK fans -- hit big sixes to pacers as well as a spinner
The pink city of Jaipur turned yellow as local fans came out in large numbers to cheer for Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
'Nice to learn something new, but took way too long to finish the work'
Defending champions Chennai Super Kings kicked off their preparations for the upcoming IPL as the team started training in Surat.
A look at how the cricket fraternity wished Dhoni his 42nd birthday
'He can bat, he can bowl, he can field. He has an X factor about him. I hope very well deep down within my heart that when he comes out on top, I'll sit back and I'll watch everyone sing his praises.'
