Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Stephen Fleming lost his cool with a journalist, after the loss against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) on Friday. Fleming went back and forth with the journalist who compared CSK’s brand Cricket with the other teams. However, the former New -Zeeland, Captain, was not in a jovial mood when he hit the journalist for his “crazy” question. CSK suffered his first loss of the season and fell against RCB, who won at the Chepauk for the first time after 2008 with 50 points.
During a press conference after the game, Fleming found his frustration on the journalist, who was critical of CSK’s brand Cricket.
Reporter: “In the first game you haunted 156 in almost 20 overs. Today you scored 146. I know this is your way to play cricket, but do you think it gets a bit outdated?”
Fleming: “What do you mean by my way of playing? You talk about firepower. We have a completely firepower through it. I don’t understand this question. Only because we don’t swing from Ball No.1 and are lucky, you just see at the end that wins. It is a positive brand of cricket. Not a discount.”
Reporter: “I will not close you.”
Fleming: “You are a kind of crazy question.”
Speaking of “home advantage”, Fleming insisted that it is not that his team did not read the field more often than not.
“Well, as we have told you for a number of years, there was no home advantage at Chepauk. We won a few times from home. And we couldn’t read … We have been really honest to you,” said Fleming during the press conference after the match.
“We have not been able to read the wickets here in recent years. So it’s not new. We try to get a grip every day with what we get, and we don’t know. It’s not the chepauk [of old] Where you can just go inside and play four spinners. We have to work very hard to try to understand the nature of each pitch, and it is very different, “he added.
In the meantime, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad stated that 170 runs was a “par -tootaal” on the Chepauk surface and dropped, some extra limits cost them the game.
“To be honest, I still feel that 170 was a par score on this wicket. It wasn’t so great to hit. It was a bad day in the field; it took us very bad. At the end of the day, when you follow 170, you beat differently. To hit something different. It became a little slower and sticky.
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