{"id":52943,"date":"2025-04-26T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52943\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:04:09","slug":"useless-strike-rate-virender-sehwag-calls-out-csk-legend-for-slow-batting-vs-srh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52943\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Useless strike-rate&#8221;: Virender Sehwag calls out CSK legend for slow batting vs SRH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virender Sehwag didn\u2019t shy away from criticizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/series\/chennai-super-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chennai Super Kings<\/a>\u2018 batting lineup after another poor showing at home against <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/series\/sunrisers-hyderabad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/a>. He particularly questioned why <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/series\/ravindra-jadeja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ravindra Jadeja<\/a>, with his vast experience, wasn\u2019t taking more responsibility in stabilising the innings.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Cricbuzz\u2019s post-match show, Sehwag expressed his frustration with CSK\u2019s performance, stating, \u201cEarlier in the tournament, I felt like going home, and even CSK feels that way. Half of their batters are asking when they will be able to go home, and let this tournament come to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sehwag also voiced his concerns about Jadeja\u2019s batting position, pointing out that the all-rounder continues to bat at the number four. Jadeja managed 21 runs from 17 balls.<\/p>\n<p>He further emphasized, \u201cThere needs to be accountability within the team. Brevis was stepping up, but even he got out while trying to play an aggressive shot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sehwag also commented on Jadeja\u2019s role, saying, \u201cIf Jadeja is batting higher up the order, his strike rate is useless, but at least he should stay at the crease until the 15th or 18th over so that the team can build around him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CSK were dismissed for just 154, with Ayush Mhatre (30) and <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/series\/dewald-brevis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dewald Brevis <\/a>(42) making substantial contributions. SRH\u2019s bowlers kept up the pressure, picking up wickets regularly to limit the scoring. <a href=\"https:\/\/crictoday.com\/cricket\/series\/harshal-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harshal Patel<\/a> claimed four wickets.<\/p>\n<p>After Brevis was dismissed, CSK were 114-5 with seven overs to go, but the lower order couldn\u2019t get the runs. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virender Sehwag didn\u2019t shy away from criticizing the Chennai Super Kings\u2018 batting lineup after another poor showing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[6675,1406,4127,6671,79,16,15,21918],"class_list":{"0":"post-52943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-chennai-super-kings","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-ipl-2025","11":"tag-ravindra-jadeja","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-virender-sehwag"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114406062842929130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52943","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=52943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}