Stephen Fleming
Stephen Fleming. (Photo: Twitter)

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) head coach Stephen Fleming was hoping for the quick recovery of the all-rounder, Moeen Ali, who has been out of action since sustaining an ankle injury during a training session on Saturday.

He was replaced by Mitchell Santner who was tried in the same batting slot as Moeen but couldn’t have the same kind of impact. Moeen provides a great balance to the side and his fitness is of paramount importance to CSK.

Moeen Ali. Photo- IPL
Moeen Ali. Photo- IPL

He rolled his ankle, X-rays revealed there was no fracture but there is always a recovery period maybe seven days. We are hopeful the recovery will be quick given that there is no fracture,” Fleming said in the post-match press conference on Monday.

“It was the same hand that was broken sometime back” – Stephen Fleming on Rayudu’s wrist injury

During PBKS’ innings, Ambati Rayudu had received a blow on his wrist. The veteran was in visible pain but he ended up being CSK’s best batter on the night, smashing a 39-ball 78 albeit in a losing cause.

The first check was around the break and his hand was bruising. It was just a case of icing that and getting that down and I think a little padding around the glove.

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Ambati Rayudu of csk. Photo-IPL
Ambati Rayudu of csk. Photo-IPL

It was the same hand that was broken sometime back, so it’s still pretty tender and a knock like that can obviously cause some damage,” Fleming further added.

Additionally, Fleming defended the decision to send Ravindra Jadeja ahead of MS Dhoni during the run chase. Jadeja struggled and played a woeful 16-ball 21 that hurt CSK’s chances.

Chennai Super KIngs
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We lost the wicket in the 12th (13th) over, pretty close to when we’ve seen MS Dhoni come in in the last 13 years, but today it was in the 12th over. We had this discussion a lot, MS’ best time is from about 15 overs onwards and Jadeja has played some good innings for us from the stage and we don’t throw that out based on 1-2 games,” the Kiwi mentioned.

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