It was a comment that Stephen Fleming would not have expected to come back to cut it so soon. After his match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, where he had to face the first of his eight defeats this season, Fleming was asked whether their structured way of building innings – starting slowly, moving, and ending with a Utkarsh. For the first time in the 15 seasons as the head coach of the franchise, Kiwi usually lost her cool. “You talk about the firepower. We have got shelling in every way. I do not understand this question. Just because we are not swinging from the ball number 1 and some luck, just go on our way, just see the end, just see the end, which wins it. It is a positive brand of cricket. Do not give us.”
From that early summer night, Peak Summer is still left with a month of IPL, no one is counting Chennai, which is for the race to play for the race. She has become the first team to end. Since that defeat, Chennai has demolished several offering this season. First defeat to RCB since 2008; By never losing more than two matches in a succession at home, he is now the winner in five consecutive fixtures in Chepack; He has suffered his worst defeat at home; Sunrisers have lost to Hyderabad for the first time in Chennai … The list may be endless by the end of their campaign.
Here in several later conversations with the media, in each necklace, Fleming has talked about the need to stick to her philosophy of playing with experienced players and even mentioned how it is to see young unkapd Indian batsmen stroking with balls and do not learn the bats of batting. But given how their season has excluded and how other franchises have benefited from investing in unkapped gems, winning the game on their own with high -risk cricket, Fleming said that CSK results can force them to think well this season.
Is the game not developed or CSK?
At the end of his match against Hyderabad, Fleming said, “I believe that the game has not developed so much.” “There is a bit of chaos all around, not there, with the teams playing well (by targeting boundaries and playing high-risk shots). And I think I said in an angry interview a few weeks ago that we will look at the end of the tournament, which will come through the team. Are. “
It is not as Fleming and Chennai have been very rigid. After failing to make a play-off for the first time in 2020, he responded by bringing the players who would play bold cricket in the middle-over and won the title in 2021. However, as they fail to make the last-four in gradual seasons, this time there are more pressure questions than before. In this season, with just two wins, the Big Player came immediately after the auction, which means that even though Chennai intended to give a fresh look in the next season, which will remain a big question.
Auction that went wrong
The possibility of other franchisees issuing creams of Indian talents appear low, and is therefore a case with unaccounted local players who have already engraved a name for themselves. Therefore, it raises the question whether Chennai got wrong with their five regressive people and also with their pics on the auction table. First, before the time limit of retention, there were a lot of discussions about bringing an alternative face for MS Dhoni, with Rishabh Pant in the desire list. But since he had Ruturaj Gikwad, and pants, captain’s demand somewhere else, he focused his attention.
He then committed to Ravindra Jadeja, maintaining it for Rs 18 crore months after announcing his retirement from T20I. Even Shivam Dubey was retained for Rs 12 crore, when KL Rahul’s choice was only Rs 14 crore.
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And in the auction, he decided to have faith in experienced players, he spent Rs 9.75 crore on Ashwin and Rs 10 crore on Noor Ahmed. This meant Chennai could not go beyond a border after a premiere batsmen and Rahul, Liam Livingstone, were outbids for the choice of Glenn Maxwell. In the end, he had to settle for the usefulness players in Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda and Vijay Shankar in place of experts.
The recommendations of Talent Scouts were ignored?
Behind the curtain in CSK, there are also questions on how some young talent was put forward by their talent scouts, it was not considered even on the auction table. At one time franchisees are exploiting the domestic T20 league for unknown talents, Chennai still appears reluctant to take the route. Priyash Arya is the latest youth talent that the franchise has missed after his scouting team recommended. In the past, Varun Chakarwarthi, Sai Sudarshan all have passed through their fists. And beyond Dhoni, there is no frontline wicketkeeper and 43 still remain their go-captains in moments of crisis.
“It is difficult to say that we have completely corrected it with demonstrations that we have,” Fleming said about the auction. “And this is not easy. And that’s why we are proud of our records today. We are able to be consistent for so long and do not seem much to go in another way. Other teams have got better and this is the point of auction. But we have not been able to correct it.” Until a rigorous course is improved, the future will not change immediately.
