Nothing's going well for the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2020 as a fresh controversy arises after their 7th defeat in 10 games. MS Dhoni talked about 'not seeing enough sparks in the CSK youngsters' in the post-match presentation and was ridiculed on social media for the comment.
CSK faced the Rajasthan Royals on Monday, October 19, and failed to defend a below-par target of 125. With yet another embarrassing defeat, Dhoni's men are now sitting at the bottom of the points table. CSK will have to hope for a miracle to qualify for the playoffs from here.
IPL 2020: ‘Youngsters didn’t show enough spark to push the seniors’, says CSK skipper MS Dhoni
After the game, MS Dhoni said, "It's fair enough [the criticism for not playing youngsters], this season we weren't there. Maybe we didn't see as much spark from some of our youngsters. Maybe going forward we bring them in and they play without pressure."
This has not gone down well with cricket fans and they have been vocal about their opinion on Twitter. Here are a few of those tweets:
"Didn't see spark in youngsters"- is the most outrageous thing I have heard.
— The Joker ???? (@Joker122018) October 19, 2020
If no one had seen spark in Dhoni, if no one had backed him after being run out in the first match, we wouldn't have gotten an legend in cricket.
" We didint see any spark in youngsters to push them " ~ Dhoni
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 20, 2020
Kedar Jadhav: 62 Runs in 8 Games
Jagadeesan: 33 Runs in 1 Game
Outrageous statement by Dhoni to say he didn't find any spark in youngsters to give them a fair run. Jaggi tried hard, showed intent to score 33 on his debut & was dropped unceremoniously. Not sure what spark Kedar Jadhav showed to have made a comeback into the side. Ridiculous.
— Srini Mama (@SriniMaama16) October 19, 2020
Really disappointed to hear this from #Dhoni without giving the chance how can you say there is not enough spark
— VigneshWaran Baskaran???? (@Im_The_VicKy) October 20, 2020
"Maybe we didn't see the kind of spark that they could've given us to say okay you know push the experienced guys and make space for them."#CSKvRR #Dream11IPL
When Thala was younger, he axed experienced seniors as apparantly they weren't good fielders and were burden on the team.
— innocent (@Tweet_innocent) October 19, 2020
When Thala is older, youngsters aren't showing much spark to push the experienced seniors out.
It's always the age group of which Dhoni isn't a part.
