Published: May 21, 2025, 02:36 PM (IST)
Edited: May 21, 2025, 05:44 PM (IST)
In an honest admission of their bad run in this ongoing Indian Premier league (IPL) season, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) head coach Stephen Fleming said they deserve to finish at the bottom of the table but promised to come back with “strong ideas”.
As one of the most consistent teams in the popular league, CSK are set to finish at the last place in the IPL standings behind Rajasthan Royals to whom they lost by six wickets on Tuesday in their penultimate IPL clash this season.
“We don’t obviously like being down here, but it’s not a motivation. We wanted just a good performance. We’re trying to string some performances together. The aim was two good performances (in last two matches). Now it’ll be one good one to finish. It’s probably fitting that we’re at the bottom. We’ve played that type of cricket, so you can’t hide away from it,” Fleming said after the match.
When giving the reason for the poor display in this season, Stephen said that their order was not right which is something they are looking to work on. He revealed that they have some strong ideas for next year, which could not been able to be done this year because of lack of runs.
“Our order is not right at this stage, and that is something that we are always looking to rejig. We’ve got some strong ideas for next year, so all those facets are covered. But that hasn’t been possible this year because of the lack of runs at the top. A lot of the batting positions are determined by how well a start we have, and then guys can fall into line. We haven’t had that. So we’ve been just patching innings up, really, rather than constructing good innings,” he explained the reason behind the wretched run.
CSK have played 13 matches so far in this season of IPL, and have managed to win only three of those clashes. they have 6 points and have a Net Run Rate of -1.030.
