Ayush Mhatre has been ruled out of the remainder of IPL 2026 due to a left hamstring injury sustained while batting during the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on April 18.
Ayush's injury will require a rehabilitation period of 6-12 weeks.
We wish Ayush a speedy recovery.
How long can the management think they can fool the fans by keeping his participation a speculation? If he is really injured why can't If he atleast be in the dugout and mentor the team to not take these stupid decisions. If he really loves this franchise then why doesn't he actively mentor it for a few years before our dud captain and management pick up some autonomy and can think better than those horrendous calls during the SRH match?
"But but but how long will you depend on Dhoni bro, you need to move on from Dhoni bro". Okay then simple just remove him from the squad and atleast don't post reels about him batting in the nets and "Don't take the attention away from the team". More than anything, the hypocrisy here is the most annoying.
I’m a die-hard RCB fan, no question about it. The passion, the loyalty, the heartbreaks… it all runs deep. But honestly, the kind of trolling and hate being thrown at CSK fans lately just doesn’t sit right with me. Rivalry is supposed to be intense, exciting, even emotional, but not toxic. Not like this. Supporting your team shouldn’t mean tearing others down.
I love the thrill of facing CSK, the build-up, the energy, the hunger to win that’s what makes cricket beautiful. But somewhere along the way, that excitement has turned into unnecessary negativity, and it’s gone too far. There are so many of us RCB fans who carry pride without spreading hate, who cheer loudly but still respect the game and its people, like me
At the end of the day, we’re all part of the same culture, the same love for cricket, the same South Indian spirit that runs through both fanbases. Imagine how powerful it would be if that passion brought us together instead of pushing us apart. Rivalry should unite us in competition, not divide us in hatred. I’ll always stand by RCB but I also believe we’re better when we stand with each other too.
Right from 2025 our efficiency is barely 70% while the league is at around 80-85%. Even Pakistans PSL which is expected to be prety poor is faring better. (Why this comparison - closest proxy to communicate the gulf in outcomes)
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Hi everyone. I'm gonna be teaching everyone how to hibernate this bad patch of CSK's poor run in the IPL. This should help with improving mental health without compromising on the actions when CSK's truly back on track. This comes from my personal grief and how I've managed to deal with it. Hope I can help you guys too.
Step 1
Unfollow every IPL / CSK related stuff on social media. When you see something relevant that's depressing, it's gonna make you grieve harder.
Step 2
Remove all youtube watch history related to CSK or IPL that would stop youtube from recommending you similar content. Use tools such as autoclicker to program an automated view content removal if there's too much content.
Step 3
Step out when you see anyone talk about IPL. It's the IPL season and people you see are likely cricket fanatics too and would likely bring in IPL. Step out of any conversation to do with IPL because chances are they're gonna bring up CSK's recent results or something else to do with the team.
Step 4
Set up automated reminders to know when CSK is back. Google allows for creation of email alerts for events when they happen. Set up alerts like "CSK enters playoffs", "CSK wins the IPL", "CSK fires <X person responsible for CSK's downfall>". These alerts are helpful in returning to watch CSK games when CSK is truly back into the business as usual phase.
With these set, it would be truly easy to concentrate on things that matter instead of continiously feeling doom and gloom over CSK's poor run.
The way CSK management keeps giving vague updates about MSD’s availability, saying they are unsure about his recovery and match fitness, feels like they are preparing fans slowly. Dhoni is not someone who would make a big early announcement anyway. With him, these things usually come as a surprise when nobody expects it. Honestly, I have a gut feeling he may have already played his last match for CSK, and we might not see him on the field as a player again.
Yeah, so once it's going to be a long read. So skip if you have the attention span of a monkey. No hard feelings to you or me.
As the title says, I'll opine my point of view based on the whatever-cricket-knowledge I have.
For the last 2 years, we've been seeing teams go wham-bham-thank you ma'am in the beginning of the season. As the pitches slow down, the scores, run rate, bat swing, even the tempo slow down. The thing to note is, while other teams have big bonker hitters, they are so due to their destructive bat swing. Not calling any of them slogger, that's a harsh term, but you know what I'm saying right. So, as the pitches slow down, their hitting ranges will decrease faster than what ours would do. Not that we will turn the flip, but the differences won't be so glaring.
The next being, summers. As the season progresses, India starts facing harsher sun and soaring temperatures. Pitches would dry more, might even see them crumble due to the just concluded T20WC.
Combine them all three and we have the inventory to deal with it. Or atleast suffer less than other teams. Samson's technique will be suited for it. Gaikwad needs to learn not to let the captaincy affect his batting. It's a very bad space of mind that he's into. Urvil or Mhatre, whoever, can turnover an average PP into a good one. Brevis and Dube shall be the designated spin-bashers, and Sarfaraz with all his behind V scoring areas can exploit the death overs. MS can join and aurafarm whenever he wants. Maybe for the heartbeat of every guy like me, hit a few, 15-20 sixes. Okay sorry for drifting away.
The bowlers, if we're adding Madhwal in place of Khaleel, use him as a middle over enforcer along spinners. This is where we can utilise him the best. From what I've seen of Spencer Johnson in the BBL and Aussie colours, he is a better powerplay bowler than he is a death over specialist. We can use 2+1+1, or 3+1 as per conditions. Akeal and Noor need to pump up their game, and align with slowing pitches. We have a trump card, but they need to be in form. AK47 can continue firing as he is. Try to squeeze in an over of Dube, use his slower balls.
But now, the Achilles' Heel
The players have to be there to win it. And for the love of my God, CSK management please keep them alive. We lost Mhatre due to a complete management error, one that I never expected from a professional team like CSK. It's like taking your school kids to a picnic and forgetting them at the jungle. Thankfully we have Urvil Patel who can cover up for him. But such slipups are not affordable when we're down and out halfway through the tournament.
That's all. Just an old school CSK fanatic who's spent all his childhood keeping his chest pumped up in school just because CSK, my favorite, could bang the shit out of anybody they wanted, on any given day. Today's kids won't believe how emotions changed when we saw Jaddu getting caught off RP Singh and seeing it as a no-ball moments later. Just off topic, but hear me out. We could see ourselves getting humiliated by RCB classmates if we lost. Every single RCB kid screamed their lungs off when Jaddu was caught. And we heartbroken. They ran off thinking they'd won. Some even started mocking. Even before we could adjust ourselves to start defending our glory, the CSK dugout started cheering. The replies weren't defensive anymore. It was an all out bangbang.
Mad respect for whoever staying so long. Cheers.
See, it is the stats of the guy tilak varma from MI you can see his runs in this ipl and you also know about his performance in t20 world cup. We all know that he isn't performing from the long time. How bad was his t20 world cup and ipl 26 initial season and see what he has shown today his class and aggression upto 15 overs if i am current he is just taking one or two with very few to no boundaries and see what aggression he show today.
So, please don't tell any player if you know that he is having class that drop the player, bench him. You don't know when he will perform if that guy having class and aggression. We all know the our opening captain who is having same aggression and class isn't performing well and you majority are saying to drop him or like bench him or like put him in 3rd place when we know that neither urvil and ayush can perform with the same intent that they can show us in 3rd place.
So, please try to trust ya you all are right about decision and all bur don't trusting your consistent batter and giving decisions like drop and bench, it hurts man.
Akash Madhwal’s brother confirms he’s joined CSK! Already spotted in the yellow practice kit.
Folks, the same 5 types of posts are being repeated everyday. Please use this daily thread so we can keep the sub organized.
We know you are hurting, we are too. Please keep the comments civil and respectful to the players and fellow fans. We are defined by how we act in tough times.
When required run rate was 10 per over and touched 12. But this year we fumbled an easy chase.
What do you think our management will still try to force dube be the finisher or they will actually look for a alternative? I still believe Sarfaraz should play as finisher his unorthodox shots will give us an advantage , and if we lose 2/3 wicket in PP and we need a boost then he should come in PP.
spencer johnson is fit to bowl and will be joining csk soon
so how useful can he be to csk in the present situation as we are already full of our overseas slots
https://g.co/gemini/share/e0885e090b9a
these are his stats in t20 format
and he can constantly bowl 145+
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What do you think, whom might he replace after he gets available to play?
