Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming admitted that the defending champions were off colour against Delhi Capitals in match 13 of the Indian Premier League. Chasing a 192-run target in Delhi, Ruturaj Gaikwad & Co. could manage only 171/6. After the match, Fleming said that they were slow at the start in the first six overs of each innings, but hailed former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who scored an unbeaten 37 off 16.
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00:00 I think the result is probably a fair reflection of the way the team's played.
00:09 We were a little bit off tonight. We were slow to start in the first six overs of
00:14 each innings. I think we gave away too many in our first six when we bowled. We were just a
00:20 little bit two sides of the wicket and they played well. And then when we batted
00:25 they were very good and created pressure and used conditions very well. So in
00:29 between there were some cameos from Warner and Punt at the end. We thought we'd
00:33 pulled it back with Paterana's wickets but then that last little flurry pushed
00:38 them to a pretty good score. So I think in the end probably 20 runs difference
00:42 between the teams is about right. Yeah he did. It was excellent batting and
00:47 Paterana had come off an excellent over the over before. So quite rightly so he
00:52 was lining up the wickets. And there's not many in the world that
00:56 can do that and Paterana's had a lot of success and it was just a good contest
01:02 and it showed that the Punt has still got a lot of natural flair and under
01:08 pressure he played really well. If we'd been able to restrict them to 170
01:11 something we would have walked off pretty happy but the extra sort of 12-15 runs
01:16 there were quite crucial in the end. I think it's the first six
01:22 overs of each inning so ours was, theirs was, it ended up to be quite quite high I
01:28 think in the 60s after an okay start and ours was we limped to 30 so there's 30
01:33 runs there which when you lose by 20 that's probably the difference and then
01:37 we had a lot of catching up to do and their bowling plans were good they stuck
01:41 to their plans and we had a late flourish obviously at the end but the
01:45 damage was probably done in the first six overs of each innings. Now I'm not
01:49 concerned you're gonna have ups and downs along tournament so no concerns.
01:54 He wants to get runs every time obviously but no concerns. We've played
02:00 well for two games and the nature of this tournament is you're gonna have a
02:03 little bit of very really v-go and we know that from experience so we were
02:09 just a bit off today and got beaten by a team that was desperate to win. I'll start
02:14 with his captaincy, very good. To transition into the job it's not easy
02:19 but he's done it seamlessly. We're using MS as well still as part of the
02:26 decision-making so he's along with Jadeja providing leadership with him off
02:30 the field and he's doing really well. He had a hard game to do today and he did
02:35 it well and within the time frames which is important. His batting form has
02:40 been fine in the nets and his demeanor off the field is excellent so really
02:45 positive around the captaincy. It was beautiful wasn't it and even the
02:50 one-handed one over Midwick. He has been playing incredibly
02:54 well in preseason. He's coming back from a quite serious operation so he's
02:59 rehabbing really well but his batting has been superb and that type of
03:04 performance just it just gave us a bit of a positive vibe to at the end of a
03:09 tough day. So to get within 20 is important run rate wise and he knows
03:14 that and the way he played was with that in mind and it was spectacular.
03:21 you
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