Go to domestics toil hard, improve your T20 game & prove your worth yet again. Padikkal, Virat, Venkatesh everyone has done it so you can. Still one year left before retentions, if you don't improve & don't evolve then sorry to say your career is gonna be over...
These are honest words from your die hard fans not critics @/Ruutu1331.
After winning in '23, CSK did not qualify in '24 & came last in '25.
Their icon, MSD, has not played a single match. And they've struggled this year.
And yet at the Wankhede, a really difficult ground for visiting teams, there is a serious amount of yellow shirts cheering them on.
Whatever happens today, and this year, CSK fans are the real stars of this team!
There is a shift happening in #IPL without people noticing, this is the probably the first season in IPL where there is a lot of talk around teams rather than Dhonis, Kohlis & Rohits, they are just quietly parts of their teams & doing their jobs.
IPL is not an aberration anymore, it's a permanent fixture in the sporting calendar that people will watch & have a strong loyalty towards.
Fan bases, which used to thrive in the name of Rohitians, Viratians & Thalasons, will soon be replaced by proper team fans, who will want the best for the team, above anything else.
The sporting hatred towards rival franchises was always there but it will only grow, the modern day cricket fan won't worship your idols, even if it is Sachin Tendulkar, and their entire affinity will be to RCB, CSK, KKR or MI.
As soon as franchises realise the concept of Home & Away jerseys, including fan groups & there are proper Fan TV channels, over the next few years, IPL will be unstoppable.
IPL is magic, unlike any other thing cricket has seen, it's a cricketing revolution.