CSK's Roller Coaster Ride in IPL 2025 so far - from Dire Straits to Back to Winning Ways. cover art

CSK's Roller Coaster Ride in IPL 2025 so far - from Dire Straits to Back to Winning Ways.

CSK's Roller Coaster Ride in IPL 2025 so far - from Dire Straits to Back to Winning Ways.

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 CSK's journey in IPL 2025 so far has been a roller coaster ride ranging from conceding a series of 5 consecutive losses which have sent the beleaguered 5 times champions to the bottom of the points table to their return to winning ways today finally against LSG. A dissection of their losses so far:- 1. Powerplay Woes: CSK has been the worst performing team in the powerplay through the IPL 2025 with the openers adopting a conservative approach when other teams virtually had swashbucklers firing on all cylinders scoring almost 60-65 runs on average. They were also unable to find gaps and score fours in powerplays. Only in the game against LSG, did they score 59 runs in the powerplay. 2 Batting Line-Up with Weak Middle Order: Players like Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tripathi, Ravichandran Ashwin and Deepak Hooda are woefully out of form creating a weak middle order, which, in addition, to low scoring rates in the powerplays, has made it impossible to chase 180 plus targets consistently with Jaddu & Dhoni buckling under immense pressure of required run rates at the fag end of their innings'. However, they finished brilliantly against LSG today, with Dhoni & Dube scoring 57 runs in the last 4.1 overs. Also, CSK lack explosive young guns like Priyansh Arya or Abhishek Sharma and the ones they have are not being given a chance. Rasheed's inclusion in the LSG game is a welcome addition and Vansh could also be tried. They also lack someone who could anchor the innings like a KL Rahul, Kohli or Pooran or Hetmeyer. Sam Curran could be included again in the playing XI for his batting & all round game and Conway could effectively play the sheet anchor role. 3 Fielding Errors & Dropped Catches: CSK has dropped almost 14 catches through their first 6 matches becoming the worst fielding side of the tournament so far with a successful catch percentage of 62% 4 Bowling Issues: Noor Ahmed, one of the tournament's most successful spinner, was introduced too late into play even on slow and turning wickets. Fast bowlers have generally bowled well but did not use variations effectively like use of slow cutters, Yorkers and bouncers as per the tracks to deceive, attack and not give pace to bowlers except Pattirana. Sloppy work by bowling coach and analysts. Hope they will fix some of these aspects going forward as the tournament rapidly moves towards the middle phase and pressure on CSK mounts to come good in a tournament which has been more or less forgettable so far. Hope they can stick to their hard found mojo...
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