Chennai Super Kings (CSK) are found in such a situation in India Premier League (IPL) 2025 that even its strongest followers cannot support the team for a long time. At some point, even their former players could not do much, but point out their defective auction strategy or their inefficiency in the field.

Most likely they are out of the Play-Offs race after Friday’s defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Chepauk, its seventh loss of the season. There are five remaining games to play and even if they all won all of them, the qualification will still depend on the results of many other games.

Former players criticize CSK IPL 2025 performances

Recently, CSK Great Suresh Raina was very critical of management auction strategy by saying that the majority of established and future talents had available in the auction group.

“I feel that management did not have a good auction. There were many young people and talented players in the auction like Priyash (Arya). Where are those people when you need to select a good team and have so much in your bag? They have ignored the players as Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and Kl Rahul,” said the old vice-vice-chanting on Air for the Air de Star Star.

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Similarly, the former CSK opening hitter Matthew Hayden had criticized his batting strategies to send Captain MS Dhoni much more under the order during the game against KKR.

However, in a recent incident at Star Sports Tamil Commentary, the former opening batter Murali Vijay cavó in the team’s administration while in the air during the SRH match.

Murali Vijay Banca per CSK for the questions?

Vijay, while commenting together with the former opener of India, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, had suggested being in the bench for two games when he had questioned the CSK PowerPlay bowling strategy during his game days.