{"id":1043738,"date":"2026-06-22T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1043738\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T22:40:17","slug":"stephen-fleming-retains-chennai-super-kings-backing-despite-clamour-for-removal-after-two-poor-ipl-seasons-for-csk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1043738\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fleming retains Chennai Super Kings&#8217; backing despite clamour for removal after two poor IPL seasons for CSK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team has not exactly fared well over the last two years, finishing 10th in 2025 and eighth in the just-concluded season. Yet, the CSK management is set to continue with Fleming, who has been associated with the franchise since the beginning of the IPL. Fleming&#8217;s contract is renewed annually, and Cricbuzz understands that it will be extended once again this year, as has been the case in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team has not exactly fared well over the last two years, finishing 10th in 2025 and eighth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1043739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,285199,79,217043,16,15],"class_list":["post-1043738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-indian-premier-league-2027","tag-sports","tag-stephen-fleming","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116796170361672196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}