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Yes we won. But are you genuinely feeling that fire and confidence after the win? Probably not. Because even you know that the intent is missing.

Nayar is failing to understand that this is not his winter coaching camp. This is the most elite and the most competitive league in the world. And you need to be ruthless to even be considered for the Top 4. A Winning dressing room is a Happy & Smiling Dressing room.

When players do not perform after 50% of the tournament is over, you need to bench them (looking at you Ramandeep), and try the ones who are waiting for their turn on the bench, otherwise it's not fair to them.

Lsg might release him since Inglish will be available next season, and he conceded 32 in last game in front of Goenka , so he will be released, There are no Good Captaincy Options available, No KL Rahul won't be released, Sky trade is possible but that would take the Franchise back to 2026 year, What say ???

Vaibhav Arora is NOT a good powerplay bowler. as of april 21st, he has conceded 264 runs across 7 matches. And he's taken 7 wickets in 7 matches...Muzarabani provides more pace, and he's 6ft 8'', so height advantage and pace advantage. Muzarabani can provide good powerplay bowling, and pathirana can do good death over bowling.
Vainhav bowls too many wide balls...and he concedes too many runs in the powerplay.

ik there are many issues. no hate on this post, please. say anything positive(not like step down haha) if you can

1)Firstly Look at 2021 match dates , maximum gap was 5 days

And look at 2026 schedule now , minimum gap of 4 days is there between matches which breaks the momentum.

2)opening pair:- gill and Venky did good for us in 2021 , they used to set the base for the next batting to come

But currently we still have to decide on who will be the opening pair for us.

3)lack of consistent batters:-

Players like Tripathi and Venky Iyer were going very consistent in 2021, used to win us matches single handedly

But in 2026 although we are good knocks from individuals , but still they are unable to maintain it.

Let’s take example of Angkrish Raghuvanshi , then Finn Allen in first 3 matches , Rahane in first 4 matches. I just hope green and Rinku continue to play like what they are playing now.

4)captaincy:- although Morgan batted mediocre but his captaincy was top notch, the reason why Shreyas and Morgan didn’t get cricticised for their batting is because of their good captaincy , I can’t say the same for Rahane

5)lack of spin bashers and LHB in top 4:-

Players like Venky , Rana , Tripathi used to consistently play good against spin. But rn our team crumbles against spin , let’s take example of yesterdays match itself.

Also lack of LHB in top 4 makes easy way for captains to make their SLA or lefty pacers to bowl against our batters in pp , which works for the opposition everytime.

We don’t have any lefty batter till 5down.

Before the campaign started we thought our bowling is weak but it’s the batting which is costing us the most , bowling was just out of form (except Vaibhav he is just bad).

I feel like once the LHB , opening pair , spin batting issue gets fixed. We can go on to win most of the remaining matches

Let’s hope for the best..

Sorry rinku for not believing in you!!

Before anyone questions me, I have no information from any internal source, this is purely my own fan speculation.

Since last season, I always got the impression that Rahane was not very fond of Sunil Narine. It felt that Rahane samehow felt threatened by Narine both for his captaincy and opening position.

Shreyas Iyer has said many times that Narine is one of the smartest tactical minds, and used to ask Narine for advice whenever he felt he needed help. Even a smart man like Iyer knew the value of Narine’s insight and experience.

Rahane on the other hand almost feels threatened by Narine it seems. Rahane’s captaincy style is very orthodox and he doesn’t seem very fluid with his plans.

One game in particular from IPL last season I remember when KKR played DC. Rahane picked up and injury and Narine took over the captaincy for that particular game.

Rahane while sitting in the dugout, kept yelling at Narine to bowl Vaibhav in the death overs, but Narine completely ignored his advice and bowed Russell instead. KKR won the match but Rahane did not look happy at all. I think that call might have bruised Rahane’s ego.

My biggest problem with Rahane this season:

The whole cricketing world knows that Narine is useless with the bat outside the powerplay. Narine if he gets going can clear boundaries at ease in the power play.

Even if you don’t want to open with Narine, why not send him at #3 if wicket falls early in the powerplay?

I think Rahane is just insecure that Narine will bat well in the powerplay and take over his spot so Rahane tries everything to keep Narine away from batting in the powerplay.

don't forget him too 😭😭😭😭 can't belive we won 😭😭✊✊✊✊