An exasperated Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming said their failure to check out the pitch at Chepauk has actually rejected them any home advantage in the brand-new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Five-time champion Chennai suffered their greatest defeat in the house, in regards to runs, on Friday when Royal Challengers Bengaluru thumped them by 50 runs, Reuters reported.
&& Well, as we & 've been informing you for a variety of years, there was no home advantage at Chepauk,& & Fleming stated after Chennai & 's very first defeat of the brand-new season.
&& We haven & 't been able to read the wickets here in the last number of years,& & he added.
& So it & 's not new.
We are attempting to come to grips each day with what we get, and we wear&& 't understand.
& Chennai & 's spinners were not truly effective, while Josh Hazlewood led Bengaluru&& 's exceptional pace screen to set up their victory.
&& It & 's not the Chepauk (of old) where you can simply go in and play four spinners,& & former New Zealand captain Fleming stated.
&& We & 're having to work really hard to attempt and comprehend what the nature of each pitch is, and it&& 's rather different.& & Even the dew that Fleming had actually expected set in throughout the second innings did not materialise and Chennai fell well short of their target of 197.
&& No,& we didn & 't get it right, & Fleming said.
& It & 's so hard to read, however we thought it was going to skid on with the dew, however it really got a bit ugly.
It definitely made it (batting) more difficult here.& & Saturday & 's Match TINS Television will relay today&& 's match live and exclusively in Afghanistan.
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