If we begin on the lookout for 60 in powerplay with our lineup, it will likely be very troublesome for us: Dhoni

Chennai Supers Kings’ MS Dhoni throughout an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 T20 cricket match between Chennai Tremendous Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders, on the MA Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai.
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A upset Chennai Tremendous Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Friday (April 11, 2025) blamed his batters for the heavy defeat towards Kolkata Knight Riders and urged them to keep away from desperation and as a substitute give attention to higher utility to arrest the slide within the upcoming IPL matches.

CSK had been restricted to 103 for 9, as KKR chased down the goal in simply 10.1 overs, handing the five-time champions their greatest defeat in IPL historical past by way of balls remaining.

“It has been fairly just a few nights that has not gone our manner. The problem has been there, we’ve got to just accept the problem. As we speak I felt we didn’t have sufficient runs on the board,” Dhoni stated after the match.

“It has been the case over right here (Chepauk), after we bowled within the 2nd innings it stopped a bit, right this moment it did within the first innings. Whenever you lose too many wickets, there may be stress and with high quality spinners it’s troublesome.” It was yet one more dismal batting efficiency by the five-time champions, who had been fully dismantled by a scientific KKR aspect, as CSK slumped to their fifth straight lack of the season.

CSK might handle simply 31 runs for two wickets within the powerplay.

“We by no means received any partnerships and bit extra partnerships, utility and we might be tremendous,” Dhoni stated.

“What’s necessary is to see the circumstances, couple of video games we’ve got executed decently properly, again your strengths and play the pictures you may play. Not match to somebody’s else play.

“Our openers are good openers, play genuine cricket pictures, they do not slog or look to hit throughout the road. It will be important to not get determined seeing the scorecard. If we begin on the lookout for 60 with our lineup (in powerplay) it will likely be very troublesome for us.

“Get partnerships going, perhaps capitalise within the center and later overs and if we lose wickets, the center order has to do their job in a different way. And the slog can be delayed for fairly some time,” 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 workforce for executing their plans.

“We had our plans. I’ve performed right here final two years, so has Moeen. DJ is aware of the circumstances as properly. The wicket is a bit sticky, the ball stops on you a bit. Credit score goes to the spinners, our plans labored properly right this moment,” he stated.

“Lengthy option to go within the event, do not need to share an excessive amount of of these plans. “I assumed the wicket would play collectively, it seemed like a 170 sort of wicket. However cannot take any credit score away from the bowlers.”

Rahane picked the spinners for particular reward after they accounted for six of the 9 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 within the final sport, however got here again sturdy. So did Vaibhav (Arora) and Harshit (Rana).

“All in all an excellent bowling efficiency.”