Picture Credit: X/Star Sports
On Sunday, April 28, Star Sports shared a video on their official X account, wherein MS Dhoni talked about his sleep schedule during the IPL. In a video from the recent past, the former CSK captain spoke about how he would go to sleep at 10 PM normally before shifting it past midnight at 3 AM for the IPL season.
Notably, MS Dhoni is currently playing for Chennai Super Kings in the 2024 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), performing impressively with the bat and behind the stumps at an age of 42-years-old. In the defence of their title, CSK are in sixth place on the IPL points table right now with four wins and four losses in their eight matches.
The video from Star Sports had the younger MS Dhoni detail his sleep schedule, and said, as per NDTV, “According to some of them it was one of the most absurd time-table one could have but over the years it only helped me. Five-seven days before the IPL starts, I would start thinking like that and I would start training my mind like that. The plus point we had that we used to try to catch the flight that was after 12.”
I would sleep very late during IPL time: MS Dhoni
“What I used to do is that I would sleep very late because when the matches are on, from 8 to 11-11:30 is the schedule, after that post-match presentations then you would pack your kit bag, there would be late dinner. By the time you reach back to the hotel, it's almost 1-1:15. After that you have to pack your belongings in the hotel, leave the kit bag outside and by the time you do all of that, it's pretty late, let's say around 2:30,” he added.
“So instead of sleeping from 10 pm to 6 am or 11 pm to 7 am, I would sleep from 3 am to 11 am. So the minimum 8 hours sleep that I need, that I have to do for sure. I was always well-rested at night, never felt fatigued after the IPL got over,” MS Dhoni concluded.
Here is old video of MS Dhoni talking about his sleep schedule: