This led me to think about How CSK is winning matches? They have bowlers who have zero/least exposure to International cricket. I went ahead and check the stats of Deshpande, Akash & Pathirana.
While every other team had to bid for bowlers.
MSD is busy creating new bowlers. MSD was once the most successful captain of the Indian cricket team, with many players emerging in the cricket team in India. He knows how to captain a team and take it forward. Under his captaincy many losing matches have also been won in the end. All the players mentioned above have not qualified for international matches or made their debut but only Dhoni's bowling skills have been able to take Chennai Super Kings to the top in IPL 2023. However, there will be no surprise even if Chennai Super Kings are champions in this year's IPL because Chennai Super Kings can only make it to the finals under Dhoni's supervision.
@LDL these bowler’s definitely have the potential, and MSD is slowly and steadily grooming them and I won’t be surprised if they get bigger roles in the long term.
^^^ I am not sure whether there is a need to overhype the CSK bowlers. For sure they have performed well this season. For example, Tushar Deshpande has picked up 12 wickets so far, but those wickets came at an average of 23.16 and an economy rate of close to 11. Compared to him, Ravindra Jadeja performed much better. He picked up 10 wickets at an average of 17.60, and his economy rate is exceptional at 7.33. Akash Singh has also bowled well and he has so far picked up 5 wickets from 4 matches. But overall, CSK has won their matches mostly due to the batting, with bowlers playing a supplementary role.
@Sithara007 I disagree here it’s not hype at all, because these bowler’s deserve praise as it’s never easy to bowl in a T20 match and these bowler’s are performing well despite no major experience that too in IPL hence they deserve all the praises they can get for their performances.