Captaincy pressure was affecting Ravindra Jadeja’s game: MS Dhoni

The talismanic Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels that the pressure and demands of captaincy took a toll on Ravindra Jadeja and affected the mind of the all-rounder, resulting in his poor performance under the colors of Chennai Super Kings in the ongoing IPL.

Jadeja was appointed as the CSK captain for the current season after Dhoni decided to part ways, but the all-rounder failed to withstand the pressure and eventually quit, leading the franchise back to its most trusted lieutenant. was forced to fall.

Back on top of matters, Dhoni delivered results immediately as CSK clinched a 13 run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad To keep himself afloat in the tournament.

“I think Jadeja knew last season that he would be captaining this year. For the first two games, I supervised his work and let him stay until later. After that, I insisted that he make up his mind and take his decision. Will take responsibility for them himself.

Dhoni said at the post-match presentation ceremony, “Once you become the captain, it means a lot of demands come. But as the assignments went on, it affected his mind. I think The captaincy took a toll on his preparation and performance.”

Dhoni said that Jadeja taking charge of the team was a gradual change, which he wanted.

“He knew and had enough time to prepare, the important thing is that you want him to lead the team and I wanted that to change. At the end of the season, you don’t want him to feel captaincy.” By whom. Someone else and I’m just going for the toss.

“So it was a gradual change. Spoon feeding doesn’t really help the captain, on the field you have to make those important decisions and you have to take responsibility for those decisions.

“Once you become the captain, we have to take care of many things and that includes your own game.

Dhoni expected Jadeja to reign as a player once he was relieved of the pressure of captaincy.

“Even if you get rid of the captaincy and if you’re at your best and that’s what we want. We were also losing a great fielder, we were struggling for a deep mid-wicket fielder, we still had 17 -18 catches are dropped and this is a matter of concern.

“These are tough games and hopefully we will come back strong, it is important to communicate with the bowlers,” he added.

Talking about the match, Dhoni said that they managed to put up a defendable score on the board.

He said, “It was a good score to start with. I didn’t do anything different, it’s not like much change with the change of captain. The target we got was good, the dew comes so the bowling should be good.

“The spinners did well in the 7-14 over period which was the key to the win and gave a surplus of runs on which we could fall back.” SRH captain Kane Williamson said that chasing 200-plus in a T20 match is always a challenge.

“When someone scores more than 200 runs, it is always a challenge to chase him. I thought we answered well, but he kept the pressure on us with his total.

“We put up a lot of struggle and at times some things were just unlucky for us which didn’t suit us,” he said.

Williamson said that losing the services of Washington Sundar in the bowling department after injuring himself while fielding was a big blow to the team.

“It was a bit slow (on the pitch), we tried our best, but it was a struggle for us to lose Vashi (Sundar) for the best part of the bowling innings.

“Still we can look at the game with a lot of positives, we came up against quality spinners, at the end of the day we struggled a lot,” he added.

The SRH skipper said that the need of the hour is for his team to stay connected and continue the good work of the first half of the tournament.

“We just need to stay connected, we have been playing well, and did that in the first half of the tournament (talking about five wins). We just need to touch a few things, get in shape well and come back strong. Needs. Next game.”