Chennai Super Kings head coach Stephen Fleming lamented his side’s poor execution after their third straight defeat of the season on Sunday.

CSK went down to defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 43 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium while chasing a daunting 251-run target.

“Today we didn’t execute, I think we were a bit passive in the last game throughout the last innings, the fast bowler in particular, it was much better in the first half today, but just the execution under pressure and against someone like Tim David who was very destructive, you have to be absolutely spot on and once we sort of fell behind and he got the rhythm and there was that no ball as well, so lets not forget that,” he told the media after the game.

“We did some good things early on, created some chances, we unfortunately just couldn’t get a couple more wickets for our efforts and in the end, unfortunately, lost our shape in the back end. It’s a good wicket and I think if we were able to held our nerves and execute a bit better 210-220 would have been in our grasp,” he noted.

Published on Apr 06, 2026