There’s no home advantage at Chepauk: CSK coach Stephen Fleming after defeat to RCB | Ipl News

A terse Stephen Fleming expressed his unhappiness over the conditions at Chepauk, saying there’s no ‘home advantage’ for the Chennai Super Kings while playing there.
Fleming spoke after his team lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore 50 runs on Friday, making it their biggest home defeat. Speaking later, Fleming said they ‘haven’t been able to read’ the pitch at Chepauk.
“Well, as we’ve been telling you for a number of years, there was no home advantage at Chepauk,” Fleming said. “We’ve won away from home a couple of times. And we haven’t been able to read… we’ve been really honest with you. We haven’t been able to read the wickets here in the last couple of years. So, it’s not new. We are trying to come to grips each day with what we get, and we don’t know.”
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He added that ‘it’s not the Chepauk (of old) where you can just go in and play four spinners.’ “We’re having to work really hard to try and understand what the nature of each pitch is, and it’s quite different.”
During their chase, Fleming said the pitch got a ‘a bit tacky’ as against their thought that the ball would ‘skid on with the dew’.
CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad echoed his coach’s thoughts. “It got a little slower, it got a little sticky. The new ball was sticking a bit. Don’t know how it happened. Rahul backed his shot, I backed mine as well. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.”