Chennai Super Kings’ (CSK) was bamboozled by Delhi Capitals (DC) at Vishakhapatnam as the hosts won the match by a pretty big margin of 20 runs. The form of CSK skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad now has become a huge concern for the team. It won’t be wrong to say that the burden of captaincy has affected his natural attacking brand of game as he is discovering new ways to get out.
Irrespective of the result, the Vizag crowd witnessed brutal hitting of the legendary batter MS Dhoni who played a breezy cameo of 37 runs in 16 balls and in that unbeaten knock, he struck 4 fours and 3 gigantic sixes and it looked as if the old Vintage MS Dhoni was back as smashing the lethal speedster Anrich Nortje is by no means everyone’s cup of tea.
CSK’s management would be considering bringing back the experienced all-rounder Moeen Ali into the playing 11 and perhaps drop one of Daryl Mitchell or Rachin Ravindra. Moeen Ali is someone who can contribute in all the 3 facets of the game and can also play the role of pinch hitter for the team if needed.
Rachin Ravindra was missing the ball by a big margin- Ruturaj Gaikwad
Ruturaj Gaikwad was seen in the post match presentation. Ruturaj Gaikwad pointed out that restricting DC to 191 runs was quite a good effort and said that during the second innings, there was extra seam movement and spongy bounce. Ruturaj Gaikwad rued the fact that they couldn’t get the big over else the result of the match would have been different.
“I was pretty much happy with the way they (bowlers) came back after the start (powerplay). Restricting them to 191 was a good effort. The pitch was on the better side in the first innings. Second innings there was extra seam movement and spongy bounce. I felt he (Rachin) was missing it by a big margin. We couldn’t get going in the first three overs and that was the difference,” said Ruturaj Gaikwad.
“At the halfway stage it was getable. There was extra seam movement and we couldn’t capitalize and we were always behind. We didn’t get the big over to reduce the run rate,” he added.