Jadeja is proving to be a liability. He did not even get to bowl today (wonder why?) and his batting is leaving a lot to be desired. And because of Dhoni/Fleming's desire to keep the best hitters close to the end, they seem to prefer Jadeja to come out before Bravo so that they can keep Bravo in the shed as close to the end as possible. Seriously Chennai think tank need to revamp their thought process and align it with the age/fitness of their players. As it is, the team is very injury prone and already the captain is saying in his interviews that "we are not a great fielding team because of the old legs but we will try to be a smart fielding team"
Chennai are going to be in serious trouble next year when these players turn another year older. And its not easy to swap players between seasons because many sides wouldn't want to let go of good players. In all 3 games played so far, Chennai have displayed the most amount of mediocrity and they got away with it 2 times out of 3 due to some extraordinary luck that helped certain individual performances.
Sanju Samson! What a talent! So pleasing to watch when gets going reminds me of Mahela Jayawardene + has a bit of calypso flair in his batting.
I seriously don't understand why Rishabh Pant has bigger hype on him than Sanju Samson. Even in the last IPL, Sanju Samson was very good with the bat and even scored a century. This IPL, he has been absolutely superb in all the games he has played so far. He has the ability to get going right from the word set and unlike Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson doesn't look very ugly in executing his shots (Rishabh Pant, to me, looks pretty ugly most of the times when he is trying to execute his big hits). For me, even Ishan Kishan looks a better bet than Rishabh Pant with clean hits and a better looking technique. I seem to have lost much of interest in Pant.
According to me, Sanju Samson should be in the ladder right after Dinesh Karthik, who is the next best contender to replace MS Dhoni in the Indian side. Samson is so good with his technique and hitting that I would even play him as a pure batsman along with Karthik.
