Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2025 Chennai Super Kings (CSK) team has been eliminated from the playoff race. In the 18th edition of the tournament, this team is now playing only a formal match. A similar match is being played against Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, which is ‘Dead Rubber’ for both teams.
Rajasthan won the toss and selected bowling
In this match, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first. Chennai started very poorly. Opener Devon Conway was dismissed in the second over. After this, Urvil Patel also returned to the pavilion without opening an account on the last ball of the same over.
Ashwin came to number four
CSK then surprised everyone and sent Ravichandran Ashwin to bat at number four. Fans and experts were shocked to send a bowler up after two wickets fell one after the other.
CSK 3 Down and they send 2 bowlers to bat.
Sometimes I Feel their Math is not Mathing.
– Dal Steyn (@Dalsteyn62) May 20, 2025
Dale Stan reacted sharply
Former South African fast bowler Dale Steyn, who has been a part of RCB, has questioned this strategy of Chennai. She wrote on the social media platform ‘X’ (first Twitter), “CSK has lost 3 wickets and sent two bowlers to bat. Sometimes I think their mathematics, mathematics is not feeling.”
CSK’s innings faltering
The Chennai team started to bat first, but the team failed to score a big score by losing wickets in the middle overs. In the scheduled 20 overs, CSK scored 187 runs at the loss of 8 wickets and now Rajasthan has got a target of 188 runs to win.
Is the reason for defeat not being made anywhere?
This year, such strange strategy of CSK has been constantly questioned, and in this match too, the decisions of the team surprised cricket fans and former players.
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