In their most recent match against the Rajasthan Royals, MS Dhoni said the Chennai Super Kings struggled because they were losing wickets too early in their innings. The Arun Jaitley Stadium hosted the match on Tuesday, May 20, and CSK lost by six wickets.
The captain of CSK praised Dewald Brevis’s innings pace. But he thought it cost them to lose wickets early on.
“The wickets column puts pressure on the lower-middle order, which may prevent you from batting 20 overs, but if you look at the number of runs we put on the board, it was excellent. We want to slightly improve on that phase, and I think Brevis’ innings was excellent because he was taking chances and had a good run-rate. During the post-match ceremony, MS Dhoni said, “I thought the run-rate was up, but where we lacked was losing 1-2 extra wickets.”
Avoid giving up too many runs in the first six overs: Dhoni MS Dhoni also mentioned that there was room for improvement in terms of restricting the run flow during the powerplay. Anshul Kamboj’s bowling in the first six overs (1/21 in three overs) was also commended by him.
While Kamboji lacks swing, he does have some seam movement, the ball strikes you harder than the speed gun indicates, he has assumed responsibility, and he is a capable yorker bowler. We have a weakness in that area (powerplay); we don’t want to concede too many runs in the opening six overs. He has bowled three overs in the powerplay, which is harder, in my opinion, when the batters are well-set and the ball isn’t moving very much,” he continued.
The 187 runs that CSK had scored in the first innings could not be defended. RR always had the advantage during the pursuit because they gave up 65 during the powerplay. With the exception of Kamboj, every bowler for CSK gave up runs at an economy rate of 10. By the eighth over of the first innings, CSK had lost half of their team.
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