Chennai Super Kings lost by 50 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore in their second match of IPL 2025. CSK's performance in this match was not very much and batting was completely flopped. This was also the biggest defeat of Chennai Super Kings at his home. After the match, CSK captain Rituraj Gaikwad described the reason for the defeat. But the team's head coach Stephen Fleming made some other statement.

Who believed Stephen Fleming responsible for CSK's defeat?

Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming said in a press conference that he is unable to understand the pitch of Chepock. He says that CSK is not able to read the pitch of Chepock in recent years. Let me tell you, Chepock's pitch is considered helpful for spin bowlers. But this time something different is being seen. This time, more help is visible for fast bowlers than spinners. RCB fast bowlers took full advantage of this. But CSK has more spinners.

Fleming said, 'As we have been telling you for many years, there is no use of playing on home ground in Chepak. We have won outside the house many times and we have not been able to read this pitch. We have been very honest with you. We have not been able to read the wicket here in the last few years. Therefore, this is not new. We are trying to deal with what we get every day, and we do not know.

Dew also spoiled CSK game

Stephen Fleming further said, 'This is not an old chepock, where you can just go and play four spinners. We have to really have to work hard to understand the nature of every pitch, and it is quite different. On the other hand, Fleming hoped that dew would help them achieve the target. But this did not happen and in the second innings the pitch slowed down. He said, 'No, we could not understand it correctly. It is very difficult to read it, but we thought it would slip with dew, but it really became a little sticky. So it definitely made the taregut difficult.