Legendary South Africa cricket workforce quick bowler Dale Steyn took a brutal dig at Chennai Tremendous Kings’ determination to ship Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin to bat within the High 5 throughout their IPL 2025 match towards Rajasthan Royals on Tuesday. Each all-rounders have been despatched to bat forward of Dewald Brevis and MS Dhoni after CSK suffered a collapse on the prime of their innings. Nonetheless, the transfer didn’t work out of their favour as they have been dismissed for 13 and 1 respectively. Steyn took to social media to specific his emotions relating to the tactic and even took a cheeky dig. “CSK 3 down and so they ship 2 bowlers to bat. Generally I really feel their math is just not mathing,” Steyn wrote on X (previously Twitter).
CSK 3 down and so they ship 2 bowlers to bat.
Generally I really feel their math is just not mathing.
— Dale Steyn (@DaleSteyn62) May 20, 2025
Coming to the match, Dhoni on Tuesday suggested the younger Indian batters who’ve impressed within the IPL to stay calm underneath stress and attempt to preserve consistency in the event that they want to realise their potential going ahead.
Dhoni’s CSK misplaced to Rajasthan Royals by six wickets of their penultimate match to stay on the backside of the 10-team IPL desk.
Rajasthan Royals concluded their woeful 2025 IPL marketing campaign with a cushty win after prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi paved the best way with a mature 57-run knock.
“They must strive for the consistency, however if you’re in search of 200-plus strike charge then consistency is tough to get …. they’ve the power to hit sixes at any stage,” Dhoni stated when requested about his recommendation to the kids who’ve excelled on this IPL.
“Do not take stress, when the expectations rise … be taught from senior gamers and training workers .. it is about studying the sport … this might be my recommendation to all the kids who’ve achieved nicely.” Requested in regards to the match, Dhoni stated his facet misplaced one or two additional wickets in the beginning.
“When you have a look at the quantity of runs we had placed on the board, it was excellent, however you bought to see the wickets column because it places stress on the lower-middle order that you just may not bat 20 overs.
“I feel Brevis’ innings was very good, he was taking probabilities and I really feel run-rate was good, that is the section we wish to enhance barely. I felt the run-rate was up however the place we lacked was dropping 1-2 additional wickets in the beginning.” “(Pacer) Kamboj is sweet, he will get plenty of motion, his balls hit you tougher than what you may anticipate, he is good … he is achieved nicely, bowling three overs within the powerplay is hard.” RR ended their marketing campaign with 4 wins and 10 losses and captain Sanju Samson admitted that his facet dedicated errors and that they might have achieved higher.
“The best way individuals are powerplay. There may be not a lot distinction in high quality of groups. The margin of error in profitable and dropping is so much less. We’ve to sit down again and do a correct assessment,” he stated.
(With PTI inputs)
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