Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain MS Dhoni admitted that his team fell short with the bat after they were bowled out for just 154 in a five-wicket loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Chepauk — marking CSK’s first-ever home defeat to SRH and their seventh loss in nine games of the IPL 2025 season.
Speaking after the match, Dhoni said, “We were short by 15-20 runs. The pitch wasn’t turning much in the first innings, so 155 wasn’t a justifiable score. It got slightly two-paced later, but we should have batted better and rotated strike more efficiently.”
After being 114 for 4 in the 13th over, CSK’s batting crumbled, losing six wickets for just 40 runs — a collapse that once again highlighted their vulnerability in the middle overs.
Despite the defeat, one bright spot was 21-year-old Dewald Brevis, who impressed in his first outing this season. Replacing the injured Gurjapneet Singh, Brevis smashed 42 off 25 balls, including four sixes, three of which came in a single over against spinner Kamindu Mendis.
Praising the youngster, Dhoni said, “Brevis batted really well. We need that kind of aggression in the middle order. Where we’ve struggled is against spin — we’ve neither rotated strike effectively nor consistently hit the big shots. That’s something we need to work on.”
CSK now sit at the bottom of the table with just four points from nine games. They’ve lost four out of five matches at Chepauk this season and face Punjab Kings next on April 30 — a team they already lost to earlier in the season.
With their playoff hopes fading, CSK will need to regroup quickly and fix their middle-order issues if they hope to turn their campaign around.
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