I watched the first three matches of CSK and i am not surprised why they are in the bottom, Dhoni alone cannot win matches for them, i feel that they are not having a good team this season, they need to replace Murali Vijay and pick someone else and they need to find a good opening pair to give them a good start. Ravindra Jadeja and Piyush Chawla are not bowling well in this edition and they need to find a replacement until they find form.
The absence of Suresh Raina is being felt in middle order batting, especially since Dhoni's strike rate has gone down. But they got such a good start in the first match, before going down in the next two. They need to move Sam Curran and Ravindra Jadeja up the order. Also, they need to drop Kedar Jadhav and need to include Imran Tahir in the place of Piyush Chawla. I don't understand why Tahir is not being selected. He's one of the best T20 bowlers.
Its not that CSK is bad team, the reason is almost every one in CSK is getting old and out of touch (Dhoni, Watson). Raydu's injury didn't help their cause either, it kinda messed up with their combination. He might play today and Murli Vijay should be kicked out without any doubt.
Piyush Chawala didn't bowl too bad and so far he's the only bowler who got the breakthrough for his team, at least at one game. That's a reason Tahir is not playing as CSK already have 2 full time Indian spinner (Chawala -Jadeja) and 1 part timer (Jadav) he didn't bowl yet tho. You could see even all rounder Bravo sitting out as Sam Curran performing well. So it would be hard to make space for Tahir and i think they are going to stick with the same foriegn players combination for now, 2 batsmen (Watson, Faf) 1 all rounder (Bravo/Sam) and 1 fast bowler.
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And most important factor is venue, there is no home advantage for any team, one of the reason we had fair amount of unexpected results so far. It might change soon.
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This was first and everyone was saying this is brilliant!
Then this happened and everyone lost their speech.
Everyone was talking shit against Tewatia then he got 5 sixes in one over.
A match where the target is 224 in 20 overs, the chasing team reached the target with 3 balls in hand.
It was a cricket match to watch. IPL is a beauty.
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. Now he's too old for this shit, at this age wicket keeping and batting too long in such hot, humidity is not an easy task anyway.
