IPL 2025 CSK vs SRH | Coach Vettori commends batters for better handling of slow Chennai pitch

The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. Karnataka Today Your daily dose of news highlights from Karnataka First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. Published - April 26, 2025 03:22 pm IST - Chennai File picture of Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Daniel Vettori | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri Sunrisers Hyderabad’s slam-bang batting style has not delivered results in IPL 2025. Head coach Daniel Vettori, quite understandably, was pleased with the way SRH went out of its comfort zone while chasing down Chennai Super Kings’ 154 on Friday (April 25, 2025) The visitor brought in the ambidextrous Kamindu Mendis into the XI and gave Nitish Kumar Reddy — who has been struggling to get going — the finisher’s role. The ploy was to handle the slow nature of the MAC Stadium pitch better. “The onus was on us to adapt and understand what’s required, and that’s why the likes of Kamindu came into the team… that’s why there was the shuffle in the batting order, putting (Heinrich) Klaasen up and Nitish down. That was to give us a more balanced approach to the chase,” Vettori said after SRH’s five-wicket win on Friday. “We have to get better at these surfaces, there’s no doubt about that. If our bowlers put up performances like that, then we have to complement them.” The 46-year-old pinpointed Mendis’ superlative catch to dismiss Dewald Brevis as the match’s turning point. “I think it’s just instinct. It’s an innate ability to be able to move, see the ball and time your diving. It’s probably one of those catches that even a brilliant fielder only has one or two in their career. But more importantly, it came when Brevis was putting a lot of pressure back on us. If he’d stayed in, probably the score would have gotten away from us,” Vettori added. cricket / IPL Terms & conditions  |  Institutional Subscriber Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.