Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain Ruturaj Gaikwad defended his side after their 50-run defeat against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Friday. He also came up with a rather bizarre remark while addressing his side’s loss, saying that they didn’t lose by a big margin.
RCB registered their first win at CSK’s home ground in 17 years and the Rajat Patidar-led side completely outplayed the hosts in a dominant display.
“I still feel 170 was a par score on this wicket. It wasn’t that easy to bat. Bad fielding cost us. When you’re chasing 170, you have a little more time, but when you’re chasing 20 runs extra you have to bat differently in the power play and it didn’t happen today,” Gaikwad said.
“It (wicket) got a little slower, it got a little sticky. The new ball was sticking a bit. Don’t know how it happened. Rahul backed his shot, I backed mine as well, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t.” Gaikwad said his team needs a lot of improvement in fielding,” Gaikwad added.
“I feel the fielding has to improve a lot and we have to come back stronger in the fielding department. We dropped catches and boundaries kept coming and they (RCB) kept going and the momentum didn’t stop till the last over,” Gaikwad further added.
“But at the end we didn’t lose by a big margin, it was just 50 runs. Definitely a different scenario when you have three world-class spinners in the team. You want new batters to face them. It didn’t happen this time. There’s a long flight to Guwahati (for next match) but we just have to turn up mentally and see which are the areas we can improve,” Gaikwad concluded.
CSK will be looking to bounce back from the heavy defend handed to them by RCB in their upcoming match against the Rajasthan Royals on Sunday, March 30.
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