CSK ends its campaign in SA but not in style

[Shiva]

Kings were ruled out by Challengers led by Kumble.

We started well in the first innings and that's it.. after that there was no moment.

Any CSK fan can point 'N' blunders that we did in the S/F clash. Dhoni's plan of trying something different in different scenarios dint work this time. His instincts were shattered.


I could see our domestic players mingling well with foreign players and the fun they were having but I couldn't see the same fun with Dhoni. He was always serious about something and i guess this attitude had some indirect impact in our results. Domestic players were feeling strange and their body language with Dhoni showed this.

Dhoni as everyone knew as a Cool Captain has to relax his mind and has to show some encouragement in the field. His post presentation comments are not pleasing. (His comments were always non-affirmative).

Things to learn from here:

* Don't include surprise packages at the crucial stages. Bringing Gony ahead of Tyagi - somehow i feel its a wrong move. Ashwin who played the other day well has to sit out.
* Never be too greedy. Having big all-rounders and not using them efficiently is of no-use. (Oram was not used efficiently. Instead Hussey or Ntini would have had a good impact)

We will hope for the best in coming years and see our Super Kings flag flying high...

[SELVAKUMAR]

I think the team composition is the main reason for the poor show put up by our team this year.If we look back our team last year when the big guns like Hayden and Hussey departed after first few matches it was the good show put up by our domestic players which brought us to the Final unlike this time.In this years team you could easily take out few stake players in almost every match.Ashwin was selected in one of the league matches but he was not allowed to blow even a single over...Jakati didn't bolw a single over in one of the match and so on.
The overseas players should be utilised to the full extent if at all we want to win,but we will have Oram in our playing eleven but he will not get a chance to bolw a single ball.I think we should have utilised him to the full extent... he could have done better job than our local lad Balaji in the slog overs.
We had Ntini,the local boy in our squad but the oppurtunity was not given to him...Dhoni should not comment that our bowling is the weak link in all the post match discussion...if he thinks so then he should have strenghtened the bowling department with avilable overseas talents.....but he failed miserably......
We should have included Hussey as a surprise package and he should have opened the batting with Hayden in the Semifinal followed by Raina,Morkle,Badri,Dhoni and the rest.
The ideal playing eleven for the Semifinal should have been 1.Hayden 2.Hussey3.Raina4.Morkle5.Badrinath6.Dhoni7.Parthiv8.Jakati9.Tyagi10.Murali11.Balaji