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In his Dhoni’s Blunt CSK Critique, Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni acknowledged that his team lost their most recent IPL 2025 match by a margin of 15 to 20 runs. At MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday, SunRisers Hyderabad, captained by Pat Cummins, easily chased 155 with eight balls left to win by five wickets, exposing CSK’s batting weakness and emphasizing SRH’s comfortable chase.
After Chennai Super Kings suffered their seventh IPL 2025 defeat and dropped to the bottom of the standings with just four points from nine games, Dhoni delivered a blunt critique of the team. Fans are concerned about the team’s continued poor IPL performance as CSK struggles to finish in the bottom table this season.
The Chennai Super Kings, who were sent in to bat, collapsed to 154 all out after failing to survive their entire 20 overs. In the midst of CSK’s Batting Collapse, Dewald Brevis led the way with a quick 42 off 25 balls, but his efforts were in vain as they lost again.
We continued to lose wickets, and in addition, I thought the wickets were marginally better in the first innings. 155 is also not a reasonable score because the wickets weren’t turning over. It became a little two-paced for the fast bowlers after the eighth, ninth, and tenth overs, but nothing unusual happened,” MS said following the game.
“We could have scored a few more runs and run a little better. Yes, there was some assistance in the second inning. We were short by 15 to 20 runs, but our spinners are good; they had some bounce and it was stopping a little. We want to get better at that because middle-overs are so important. “Especially if you start off well, you need to get those extra five, ten, or fifteen runs,” Dhoni added.
In keeping with his blunt criticism of the Chennai Super Kings, MS Dhoni praised Dewald Brevis for his outstanding performance in his first game for the Chennai Super Kings against SunRisers Hyderabad. In light of CSK’s injury replacement issues, Brevis replaced injured pacer Gurjapneet Singh and made an immediate impression with his debut.
He batted really well, in my opinion, and we need something similar in the middle order, where we have had some difficulty. When the spinners enter the game, we must either maintain our shape or identify our scoring areas to play the big shots. That, in my opinion, is where we have fallen short. Dhoni remarked, “We haven’t been able to dominate or score runs against the spinners at a good pace in the middle.”
‘If four of your guys aren’t performing…..’
In his candid assessment of his playing XI, MS Dhoni gave Dhoni’s Blunt CSK Critique, saying that any team suffers when four important players don’t perform as expected. He pointed out that while it is manageable to cover for one or two underachievers, CSK’s Underperforming Stars make Team Balance Struggles all but impossible when the majority of the lineup struggles.
Reflecting Dhoni’s Blunt CSK Critique, MS Dhoni stated, “If you have one or two weak spots to fix, that’s manageable in a tournament like this.” But it’s difficult when the majority of players are not playing well, whether they are bowling or batting. Although you can make some adjustments, you should give someone a few more games before moving on if the majority are firing.
“You have to make adjustments if four important players are having trouble at the same time but you can’t continue without enough runs on the board,” he continued. That is now crucial Dhoni’s Blunt CSK Critique.
CSK’s Performance Crisis calls for Strategic Team Changes as they next confront Punjab Kings on April 30 at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
