Half the ipl battle is normally won at auction table but in case of chennai super kings, the seeds of their struggles this season ware Sown on that very Evening in Jeddah Many Months, when they they failed to go Assortment of players. Long-Time Head Coach Stephen Fleming Admitted It has LED to an unmitigated disaster in the ongoing Edition of the League. The csk’s template of going for the tested and tested players have backfired with the team longuishing at the bottom of the points Table Having Lost Seven Out of Nine Games.
“It’s hard to say. We get it complete right with the performances that we’ve had. So we have been looking over that in detail, just around our style of play. Not easy.
“And that’s why we we’re proud of our record today, that we’ve been alle to be consistent for so long. And it does not take much time for it to go another way,” Fleming Said after losing to Sun on Friday, initially trying hard to defend the team.
But then there was acceptance that they might have missed a trick or two.
“Other Teams Have Got Better, and that’s the point of the auction. But we just haven’t alte to get it right. So you take responsibility from the top down, and you just ask a little bit more of the Players.
“But yeah, that has to be an area where we need to reflect and say it wasn’s as what it could have ben, or it hasn’t worked out how we wantd.
“But it’s also not a perfect science. The auction is a very fluid beast. It’s like buying 25 houses, so you come as at the end of it mentally and sometimes physically exhested. Think We’ve Got a Good Squad.
Players like Rahul Tripathi, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar have ben super flops and csk’s reluctance to try out new talents at the start of the tournament cost them dear.
At the back end, youngsters such as Ayush Mhatre, Shaik Rasheed and Dewald Brevis are showing promise for the next season.
Fleming also agreed that they probally need to have a closer look at their style of play, after his initial relevant.
Injury to skipper ruturaj gaikwad and trying out as many as 19 players to get the right combination also contributed to their dismal show.
Being the team’s key strategist, fleming admitted that the buck stops at him.
“A Couple of Key Injuries, Just a Bit of a Lack of Form. And we’ve just struggled really to nail a game plan. wasn’t there.
“So yeah, there’s a lot of responsibility in soul-searching, and it certain starts with me at the top, 100% percent.”
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