At Chepauk, it was a day of the ridiculous. virat kohli timed roughly five of the thirty balls he batted. Following Ravichandran Ashwin, whose departure was strangely applauded by both sets of fans, ms dhoni stepped out to bat at No. 9. And after 6,155 days, CSK lost to RCB at home.

Possibly the most peculiar of all was a brief press conference with the typically composed stephen Fleming following the game. The head coach of the chennai Super Kings gave himself a moment of candor in a quick and acerbic conversation, acknowledging that he and his team had not been able to read pitches at home for a few years.

In a match that has historically unfolded in an all too predictable way, it was a surprising role reversal.  The RCB was ready, and they had the ideal enforcers in Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar to carry out their objectives.  Precision swing and seam bowling changed the course of the match at a place where spin was predicted to rule, shifting the focus from RCB's weaknesses to CSK's own waning hold on their stronghold.

Netizens bash ms dhoni, the chennai Super Kings team on social media and claim them as 'Circus Super Kings' and they are the most useless team of IPL 2025.
 

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