Well there you go again, CSK let down themselves another opportunity for a victory. This has been the story for the CSK team so far in the tournament. Either the batting or bowling has clicked in all the games so far. And yesterday night it was no different where the bowling and fielding looked completely out of sorts. The fielding yesterday night was one of the worst I’ve seen from them since the start of the first season. The Mumbai Indian batsmen were literally taking 2’s at will even when it was hit straight to the fielder. Like they didn’t have an off day, it was they completely let the competitive level down thinking that the opposition would choke like them chasing 180 which proved to be otherwise. Well it’s only themselves to blame after losing yet again and with this kind of performances one hope’s how they would make it to the semi’s from here on. Well I’m not goin into much detailed analysis, but I would like to touch upon some issues which I hope you people may agree with.
Well I’m not gonna talk much into yesterday’s batting performance coz we did well on a track which was on the slow side and offered a lil bit of turn. The Biggest Plus was that raina was back into belligerent form with the bat considering that he had too much pressure on his mind when he went out to bat while he was captaining. Y’day the pressure of captaincy was off him and he was back to his best smashing the balls to the fence and cheeky in taking singles. His form is a good sign for India as well coz the world T20 in west indies is around the corner. Badri played a supposting role when 2 wickets were lost in succession and he did play a perfect foil to raina but after a certain time he should have accelerated his own innings to boost up the team score or rather get out coz, there was still Dhoni, Morkel to follow. But that din happen and a good last over from malinga allowed CSK to reach 181 who were at one stage looking pretty good for 200. Hayden was looking in sublime touch with the normal willow and those 3 spanking boundaries of zaheer was a treat to watch. But soon when he got the mongoose bat out, Bhajji got him with a good ball which was pushed in by him and got him plumb LBW. Parthiv patel is a complete misfit in the opening position. I may be harsh on him but he isn’t getting runs from his end and that put’s extra pressure on hayden to score. I’m Wondering who named him “Chota Hayden”. Well that isn’t funny it’s bloody sarcasim at it’s best.
After the batsmen gave them a good score to bowl at, you expect the bowlers to make some amends in but that was’nt the case here. It was the most shocking bowling in the opening overs and MI were easing at more than 10 runs per over. Albie morkel got some swing and bowled some good deliveries but he was also picked for runs and the most horrible of the lot was Balaji and Joginder in particular who went for 16 in an over and that set the tone for Mi’s chase. Jakati tried his best and got dhawan out but the initial damage was already done. CSK’s Only Bowler Murali was the one who looked like taking wickets, He got tiwary in his first over and then gradually reduced the run rate while the other bowlers around him were just bowling for namesake. The Biggest Mistake of the night was Dhoni Bringing on perrera for his first bowl of the match in the 16th over. They needed 55 of the last 5 and the pressure got to the young man and he leaked 20 runs and then murali got pollard in his last over but the match was already in mumbai’s grasp. Tendulkar jus fell at the end but bravo and the others just saw that they reach the target in an over to spare. So if the bowling didn’t work out as planned the fielding was worst. As I said earlier 2’s were taken for granted and that just in all made the difference. Many of my friends and a Lot Of CSK supporters including me are very disappointed with this performance from our team. This game was also for us to win and we gave it away.
After the Match got over yesterday night, many of my friends were frustrated, angered on the team selection and they were wondering why on earth do we have bowlers who don’t bowl more than 120kmph in our team except Ntini. I’m puzzled at why he isn’t playin, If it was an injury then he wouldn’t have been in the squad in the first place. He seems to be fit and raring to go but I dono what’s stopping him from playin. We do need a bowler like him coz with his pace it’s difficult to score runs. Every team has one bowler who can hurl 140 to 150kmph constantly in their team. Since our local bowlers aren’t doin good it’s definitely worth tryin him out. Another change I would like to see is M.Vijay opening the batting and no more parthiv. Poor Vijay was put in the middle order and every time he came in he had to slog from ball one. Really he wasn’t comfortable batting in the middle order. And Moreover a Right-Left opening combo gives the bowler to change his line and length often which is not the case when parthiv opens. I would like to see Badani and Chandrasekar ganapathy coz they are Tamil nadu’s best ranji players and they can play the waiting game and as well as slog in the end overs. Badani was a huge factor in Chennai superstar’s winning the ICL T20 in the inaugural season, While Ganapathy is a good allrounder much better than perrera. There is news that Doug Bollinger, the left arm aussie pacemen is being bought by CSK coz of their bowlin worries and he’ll be a good asset to our bowling line up. All said and done with the changes needed, We need to get a win under our belt to get our halted campaign back on track. We need to win 6 out of 8 to qualify for the semi’s now. It’s a tough ask but our boys are capable of doin that. It’s Jus that they need some confidence in them and some luck to go our way. So Will we bounce back against the Rajasthan Royal’s on Sunday????? Let’s Hope we do so and that’s me signing off again for the day. Bye……
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