After a disappointing Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) last year, the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) were back to their usual winning ways this year in IPL 2021 as the MS Dhoni and Co. took the second spot on the points table before the league was indefinitely suspended.

While a lot of cricket experts were extremely pleased with CSK this season, former India cricketer Aakash Chopra opined about CSK’s performance.

“There was a vast difference between IPL 2020 and IPL 2021. CSK played like a Dad's Army in 2020 and everyone got the superpowers as soon as 2021 came. The kings had become the Super Kings. Such a transformation can happen in six months, I and a lot of my friends had not thought so. But this team showed that,” Chopra said in his latest YouTube video.

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“The first thing that has changed for CSK is their six-hitting ability. If we talk about 2020, it is not that they played only in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, they played in Sharjah as well but were not hitting the sixes,” he added.

The former cricketer turned commentator then explained his point of what he thought changed for CSK in this year’s tournament.

“If you talk about 2020, CSK was second-last in terms of the number of sixes. They hit a total of 75 sixes and were taking 22 balls to hit a six while the Mumbai Indians were hitting a six every 13.2 balls and hit 137 in total. This year they have played only seven encounters, and have hit 62 sixes, with a six every 13.1 balls,” Chopra signed off.