Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Stephen Fleming lost his composure against a journalist, after the loss of his team against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Friday. Fleming went back and forth to the journalist who compared the CSK cricket brand to other teams. Former New Zealand, the captain, was not in a jovial mood, however, when he criticized the journalist for his “silly” question. CSK underwent its first defeat of the season, going down against RCB, which won the Chepauk for the first time after 2008, by 50 points.
At an post-match press conference, Fleming took his frustration on the journalist, who criticized the CSK cricket brand.
Report: “In the first match, you hunted 156 in nearly 20 Overs. Today, you marked 146. I know it’s your way of playing cricket, but do you think it’s a bit obsolete?”
Fleming: “What do you want to say by my way of playing? You are talking about firepower. We have the firepower throughout. I don’t understand this question. Just because we are not swinging the ball n ° 1 and we are lucky, do not see at the end, which wins it. It is a positive brand of cricket. Do not get out.”
Report: “I don’t reject you.”
Fleming: “You are a sort of stupid question.”
Speaking of “Advantage at home”, Fleming insisted that there is none because his team has not read the field most often.
“Well, as we have told you for several years, there was no advantage at home in Chepauk. We won far from us several times. And we could not read … We were really honest with you,” said Fleming at the post-match press conference.
“We have not been able to read the counters here in the past two years. So, it’s not new. We are trying to come to the grip every day with what we get, and we don’t know. It’s not the Chepauk [of old] where you can just enter and play four spinners. We have to work very hard to try to understand what is the nature of each pitch, and it is very different, “he added.
Meanwhile, the captain of the CSK Ruturaj Gaikwad expressed that 170 points was a “total” on the surface of Chepauk and the falls, certain additional limits cost them the game.
“To be honest, I always think that 170 was a score by the counter. It was not so great to beat. It was a bad day in the field; it cost us really badly. At the end of the day, when you continue 170, you beat differently. To beat a little differently in the power game.
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