April 1, 2022 0
Coach of Chennai Super Kings’ Hilarious Take On Dew Factor In Mumbai: “Like Niagara Falls” The Chennai Super Kings‘ head coach, Stephen Fleming, compared the dew during his team’s IPL 2022; match against the Lucknow Super Giants to Niagara Falls; defending his decision to have Shivam Dube bowl the match-winning 19th over at the expense of spinners. With LSG needing 34 runs in 12 balls, Man-of-the-Match Evin Lewis and Ayush Badoni blasted; Dube for 25 runs in the last over at the Brabourne Stadium, reducing the deficit to nine runs. LSG won their first IPL match on Thursday night when they got the needed runs with three balls to spare. “If you’d seen earlier on, spinning options were taken out of play because the wetness was like Niagara Falls; and they (LSG) played brilliantly,” Fleming remarked during the virtual post-match press conference. “As a result, it was extremely difficult to both grip the ball; and be efficient as a spinner.” We were a man down early on, but they played well. “We always knew we’d have to pick up an over somewhere — we were trying; to build up enough of a run rate at the finish to get someone in.” CSK were forced to rely on Dube’s medium pace bowling after Ravindra Jadeja’s two overs yielded; 21 runs and Moeen Ali’s one over yielded 14 runs. ...