Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming accredited his team’s 25-run win over Pune Warriors India at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai to the bowlers and fielders of the side.
He urged the players to emulate the standard of fielding in the upcoming matches of the ongoing Indian Premier League.
“We would look to replicate this standard of fielding in our coming matches,” said the former New Zealand
skipper while talking to the reporters at the post-match media
conference. “Today, we were desperate to win. This kind of fielding
helps the bowler to be a bit more confident and gives the skipper much
more confidence to dictate the game.”
Fleming confessed that their fielding was below par
in the previous games and they were desperate to make the difference. He
insisted that the side still needs to work hard in this department.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
and his men were quite unimpressive with the bat as the side managed to
score 142 for 6 in 20 overs- thanks to the heroics of Michael Hussey
who scored 61 off 48 balls hitting 4 boundaries and a six. In reply, the
Warriors
were 117 for 9 at the end of their allotted 20 overs.
The 38-year-old New Zealander admitted that Chennai
were 15 odd runs short of a competitive score. Even then, he was happy
with his bowlers and fielders were successful in putting the opposition
under pressure in the second half of the game.
“We knew it was a below par score. Since our best
players were struggling on that track, we felt it would be a tough score
to attain,” said Fleming.
“We knew we had to bowl and field well. We increased
the pressure on the rival batsmen as the match progressed. When they
were scoring at six runs an over, we knew we had a good chance to win
the match,” he added further.
The Chennai coach termed Jesse Ryder’s wicket as the
turning point in the game. Fleming said that had the hard-hitting Kiwi
batsman gone for some big hits, it would have been quite difficult for
them to defend their total.
The defending champions are currently placed on
number four on the tournament points table with a tally of 6 points from
3 victories in 5 games.
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