“Maybe, the team balance will get better once [Ambati] Rayudu comes back in the next game. That will give us the room to experiment with an extra bowler perhaps. There are quite a few things we can think about. We are one batter extra to start off, so the players need to step up. We need to get better with our lengths, lines and pace. I think the spinners have not come to the party yet. We are bowling good deliveries, but we are giving away the boundary deliveries bit too often,” he said on Friday.
Earlier, on Tuesday, in the match against 2008 champions Royals, Dhoni had batted at No.7 and remained unbeaten on 29 off 17 balls as the overs ran out for his team. CSK finished at 200 for six wickets in 20 overs while chasing Royals’ 216/7 in 20 overs, losing by 16 runs at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, on Sunday.
“With 217 on the board, we needed a very good start which was not the…