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Former Indian cricket crew spinner Murali Kartik believes that Chennai Tremendous Kings have reached their lowest level following the loss in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday. With 5 losses in six matches, CSK are ninth within the competitors and their flop present has resulted in a whole lot of criticism from each consultants in addition to followers. Following the humiliating loss in opposition to KKR, Kartik urged the five-time champions to ‘collectively dig in’ and attempt to reverse the scenario. The previous India star additionally referenced RCB’s run in IPL 2024 the place they received six matches on the trot after a stunning begin to their season.
“You possibly can solely come upwards from right here. You can not go any decrease. It seems like they’ve reached patal lok (hell). The best way this season has gone, you suppose that that is now my crew and what I can do with it. The extra you possibly can collectively dig deep from right here, the extra you possibly can reverse the scenario like RCB did final 12 months. They mentioned that permit us have a deep take a look at ourselves they usually received six matches on the bounce. I believe there may be nonetheless hope and until you have got thrown within the towel, there may be nonetheless hope,” he mentioned on Cricbuzz.
A disillusioned Chennai Tremendous Kings skipper MS Dhoni on Friday blamed his batters for the heavy defeat in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders and urged them to keep away from desperation and as an alternative give attention to higher utility to arrest the slide within the upcoming IPL matches.
CSK have been restricted to 103 for 9, as KKR chased down the goal in simply 10.1 overs, handing the five-time champions their largest defeat in IPL historical past by way of balls remaining.
“It has been fairly a couple of nights that has not gone our manner. The problem has been there, we’ve got to just accept the problem. As we speak I felt we didn’t have sufficient runs on the board,” Dhoni mentioned.
“It has been the case over right here (Chepauk), once we bowled within the 2nd innings it stopped a bit, right now it did within the first innings. Once you lose too many wickets, there may be stress and with high quality spinners it’s troublesome.” It was yet one more dismal batting efficiency by the five-time champions, who have been utterly dismantled by a scientific KKR facet, as CSK slumped to their fifth straight lack of the season.
(With PTI inputs)
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