Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are doing an off-season about victory in IPL 2025. MS Dhoni -led side has lost six out of eight matches and is on the verge of elimination. CSK is the only team that has reached the IPL final ten times and qualified for the playoffs 12 times. He has been one of the most dangerous teams in the world, but he has lost his track this time.
The franchise does not have a good batting lineup, and the bowlers have failed to show all the games. If we analyze their batting order, we see that they started with Rachin Ravindra and Rahul Tripathi and then went to Devon Conway instead of Tripathi. No combination for Super Kings worked. They are now trying to Sheikh Rashid and Rachin in the top order.
In the mega auction, Rahul Tripathi and Deepak Hooda felt like a big mistake for the yellow army. During the mega auction in November 2024, the management failed to grab the core team. This is not the first time CSK is clouped on the ground. In this article, we will discuss other sessions where the CSK points ended towards the lower part of the table.
Here are two examples where the CSK points ended in the points table:
1. IPL 2020
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 was the first season in which CSK did not qualify for the playoffs. In that season, only eight teams were playing, and among them, the Yellow Army finished seventh. Many things went wrong for CSK, began with an initial combination. The early pair of Murali Vijay and Shane Watson did not work. Despite changing the opening, CSK still could not win several games in the season.
He lost his place mainly in the playoff race due to his batting failure. Middle-order batsmen did not show any intention while batting and failed to hit boundaries and maximum in crunch situations. CSK failed to chase low goals such as 150–160 runs, which was normal even in that season. Therefore, he finished seventh on the points table.
2. IPL 2022
The next time CSK faced difficulty in qualifying, when the IPL was in 2022, when Ravindra Jadeja was given the team's captaincy. MS Dhoni passed Baton to Jadeja, and he was about to take the team forward. However, things did not happen according to the plan according to the management. Jadeja could not manage the team and was also injured during the season.
Then, Dhoni captured the captaincy, but could not take the team out of grief. The CSK point ended at the ninth place on the points table, which was quite disappointing for fans. The issue was the same, the batsmen did not take responsibility and failed to show the intentions throughout the season, due to which the team collapsed.
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