coffee_rules Posted March 30 Posted March 30 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: CSK is Pak of IPL. Same batting approach, similar type of players barring Rachin, and the team looks outdated. Or they can be termed as Dallas Cowboys of IPL. Won tournies earlier and sitting on their laurels with ownership more focused on earning money than winning matches. That way, RCB is the worst. They are like Vikings that has never won a SB. My respect for this CSK fan. Paithyan maari. Edited March 30 by coffee_rules Manucrick 1
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30 Posted March 30 Just now, coffee_rules said: That way, RCB is the worst. They are like Vikings that has never won a SB. My respect for this CSK fa RCB is more like Cleveland Browns. An established team who has always been dysfunctional. RCB won't win anything unless Kohli goes. coffee_rules and Manucrick 2
coffee_rules Posted March 30 Posted March 30 1 hour ago, Ultimate_Game said: RCB is more like Cleveland Browns. An established team who has always been dysfunctional. RCB won't win anything unless Kohli goes. Kohli is our Thela.. excess baggage Ultimate_Game 1
Mariyam Posted March 30 Posted March 30 1 hour ago, coffee_rules said: Kohli is our Thela.. excess baggage Thela? Street food cart? Freudian slip or design?
coffee_rules Posted March 30 Posted March 30 10 minutes ago, Mariyam said: Thela? Street food cart? Freudian slip or design? What do you think?
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30 Posted March 30 1 hour ago, coffee_rules said: Kohli is our Thela.. excess baggage Worse than him actually. Coz Thala at his peak won CSK 5 IPL trophies. All King Kohli ever did was build top heavy teams with stars and padded his stats. coffee_rules 1
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30 Posted March 30 (edited) Take out Rachin and you can confuse CSK with Pakistan or any random PSL team. The same lack of urgency at the top of the order with Ruturaj's innings a mirror image of stats padders Babar Azam and Rizwan. Absolutely useless in 180+ chases and master of 40 ball 50 and chasing a target of around 160. At the lower order you see powerless hitters like Jadeja who's useless as a batter in white-ball cricket. Then comes Thala who's simply there as a cheerleader. It says a lot about CSK that at the grand old age of 45 Dhoni's still actually a better hitter except for Rachin and Dube! Overall haven't seen such a talentless bunch of individuals put together, and frankly this team is a disgrace to IPL and the earlier CSK teams with likes of Raina leading the charge. Edit: @ Mods, I missed another thread about 2025 CSK below. Please merge/add this thread with that existing one... Edited March 30 by Ultimate_Game New guy 1
rangeelaraja Posted March 30 Posted March 30 9 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Take out Rachin and you can confuse CSK with Pakistan or any random PSL team. The same lack of urgency at the top of the order with Ruturaj's innings a mirror image of stats padders Babar Azam and Rizwan. Absolutely useless in 180+ chases and master of 40 ball 50 and chasing a target of around 160. At the lower order you see powerless hitters like Jadeja who's useless as a batter in white-ball cricket. Then comes Thala who's simply there as a cheerleader. It says a lot about CSK that at the grand old age of 45 Dhoni's still actually a better hitter except for Rachin and Dube! Overall haven't seen such a talentless bunch of individuals put together, and frankly this team is a disgrace to IPL and the earlier CSK teams with likes of Raina leading the charge. It highlights a deeper truth — the IPL isn’t always about a competitive streak or the hunger to win. Sanjiv Goenka inadvertently revealed that owners often spend massive sums on underperformers, fully aware they’ll be mere passengers, simply because it boosts the franchise's brand value. And that’s exactly why many serious cricket followers struggle to take the IPL seriously ( me included )
Bigg Brother Posted March 30 Posted March 30 14 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Take out Rachin and you can confuse CSK with Pakistan or any random PSL team. The same lack of urgency at the top of the order with Ruturaj's innings a mirror image of stats padders Babar Azam and Rizwan. Absolutely useless in 180+ chases and master of 40 ball 50 and chasing a target of around 160. At the lower order you see powerless hitters like Jadeja who's useless as a batter in white-ball cricket. Then comes Thala who's simply there as a cheerleader. It says a lot about CSK that at the grand old age of 45 Dhoni's still actually a better hitter except for Rachin and Dube! Overall haven't seen such a talentless bunch of individuals put together, and frankly this team is a disgrace to IPL and the earlier CSK teams with likes of Raina leading the charge. The legend leagues team would smash this team. Watson alone would eat alive this guys. Ultimate_Game 1
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30 Posted March 30 1 minute ago, rangeelaraja said: It highlights a deeper truth — the IPL isn’t always about a competitive streak or the hunger to win. Sanjiv Goenka inadvertently revealed that owners often spend massive sums on underperformers, fully aware they’ll be mere passengers, simply because it boosts the franchise's brand value. And that’s exactly why many serious cricket followers struggle to take the IPL seriously ( me included ) Well you can have underperformers like Dhoni. With Impact Player rule you can carry one passenger. But the problem with CSK is that there's nobody else in the team carried for brand value. They're utterly mediocre. I can understand someone like Pant, Rohit or Kohli being carried but what about Vijay Shankar? Or Tripathi or most of the Indian players who're mostly sub-standard.
cowboysfan Posted March 30 Posted March 30 they almost won,they got some good bowlers but their indian batsmen apart from Ruturajj are not upto the markmaybe ditch Overton and bring in Conway to open with Rachin.
rangeelaraja Posted March 30 Posted March 30 9 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Well you can have underperformers like Dhoni. With Impact Player rule you can carry one passenger. But the problem with CSK is that there's nobody else in the team carried for brand value. They're utterly mediocre. I can understand someone like Pant, Rohit or Kohli being carried but what about Vijay Shankar? Or Tripathi or most of the Indian players who're mostly sub-standard. CSK might have off seasons, but they’ll never go into a long slump — not with Stephen Fleming around. He’s one of the smartest minds in cricket. He knows how to build a strong squad, keep it balanced, and get the best out of whatever players he has. Loyalty is in CSK’s blood, and Fleming has been there from the start.
Ultimate_Game Posted March 30 Posted March 30 1 minute ago, rangeelaraja said: CSK might have off seasons, but they’ll never go into a long slump — not with Stephen Fleming around. He’s one of the smartest minds in cricket. He knows how to build a strong squad, keep it balanced, and get the best out of whatever players he has. Loyalty is in CSK’s blood, and Fleming has been there from the start. Fleming is the coach I wanted for Team India. He reminds me a lot of John Wright and generally such coaches who stay behind the scenes do pretty well with India.
rangeelaraja Posted March 30 Posted March 30 4 minutes ago, Ultimate_Game said: Fleming is the coach I wanted for Team India. He reminds me a lot of John Wright and generally such coaches who stay behind the scenes do pretty well with India. Fleming was in contention sometime ( can't recollect when ), but he did not want to tour etc... IMO, Andy Flower is as good. Highly underrated. He’s brilliant at tactical match-ups, top-tier at man-management. He’s super low-key — no noise, just quietly doing the job. Plus, people forget how good he was as a player, especially against spin. He dominated in India. I really hope BCCI considers him after GG. He’s got the cricketing brain and the calm to take India to the next level --- and make our current crop play spin better. Ultimate_Game 1
vvvslaxman Posted March 30 Author Posted March 30 CSK is known for picking some random average players and bringing other dimension of them. BUt even by their own quirky standars picking guys like Hooda, Tripathi for high price raise your eyebrows. One or two weird selections always happen with CSK like Mitchell was picked for 14 crore (mostly due to influence of Stephen felming). But i don't know which genius went after these two guys. THey probably thought they could turn Tripathi into Rayudu. Massive fail.
vvvslaxman Posted March 30 Author Posted March 30 List of unsold players. There are so many they could have gone after https://www.espncricinfo.com/auction/ipl-2025-auction-1460972/unsold-players
vvvslaxman Posted March 30 Author Posted March 30 Ashwin and Jadeja both should bowl outside power play. They should use Rachin Ravindra inside power play in case if goras bat. In the last 2 matches Ruturaj used Ashwin inside power play. Both backfired.
vvvslaxman Posted March 30 Author Posted March 30 Ruturaj has no sense of match ups. IN the first match Ashwin vs Patidar good match up in favor of Ashwin. Jadeja vs KOhli good match up in favor of Jaddu. Ruturaj messed up all the match ups. Kambob is an all rounder too. Not sure why he is not playing
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