A disenchanted Chennai Super Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Friday (April 11, 2025) blamed his batters for the heavy defeat in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders and urged them to keep away from desperation and as an alternative concentrate on higher utility to arrest the slide in the upcoming IPL matches.
CSK have been restricted to 103 for 9, as KKR chased down the goal in simply 10.1 overs, handing the five-time champions their largest defeat in IPL historical past in phrases of balls remaining.
“It has been quite a few nights that has not gone our way. The challenge has been there, we have to accept the challenge. Today I felt we did not have enough runs on the board,” Dhoni stated after the match.
“It has been the case over here (Chepauk), when we bowled in the 2nd innings it stopped a bit, today it did in the first innings. When you lose too many wickets, there is pressure and with quality spinners it is difficult.” It was one more dismal batting efficiency by the five-time champions, who have been utterly dismantled by a medical KKR aspect, as CSK slumped to their fifth straight lack of the season.
CSK may handle simply 31 runs for 2 wickets in the powerplay.
“We never got any partnerships and bit more partnerships, application and we would be fine,” Dhoni stated.
“What is important is to see the conditions, couple of games we have done decently well, back your strengths and play the shots you can play. Not match to someone’s else play.
“Our openers are good openers, play genuine cricket pictures, they do not slog or look to hit throughout the road. It is essential to not get determined seeing the scorecard. If we start looking for 60 with our lineup (in powerplay) it will be very difficult for us.
“Get partnerships going, maybe capitalise in the middle and later overs and if we lose wickets, the middle order has to do their job differently. And the slog will be delayed for quite a while,” he stated.
KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane, a former CSK participant, hinted that data in regards to the circumstances helped his aspect. He additionally lauded his crew for executing their plans.
“We had our plans. I have played here last two years, so has Moeen. DJ knows the conditions as well. The wicket is a bit sticky, the ball stops on you a bit. Credit goes to the spinners, our plans worked well today,” he stated.
“Long way to go in the tournament, don’t want to share too much of those plans. “I assumed the wicket would play collectively, it seemed like a 170 kind of wicket. But cannot take any credit score away from the bowlers.”
Rahane picked the spinners for special praise after they accounted for six of the nine CSK wickets.
“Moeen (Ali) performed properly – by no means simple to play only one sport after which miss out, after which come again in. So did Sunny (Sunil Narine) and Varun (Chakravarthy). Sunny went for runs in the final sport, however got here again robust. So did Vaibhav (Arora) and (*60*) (Rana).
“All in all a good bowling performance.”
Published – April 12, 2025 05:06 am IST
