India, April 26 -- CSK are almost out of IPL 2025 playoff contention, as they crashed to their seventh defeat of the season on Saturday. It was also their second-straight loss as SRH won by five wickets. It was also CSK's fourth consecutive loss at the Chepauk, and it is only the second such instance after they lost the last two fixtures of the 2008 season, and the first two in 2010. This was also SRH's first win vs CSK at Chepauk in six attempts.

Speaking after the defeat vs SRH, CSK head coach Stephen Fleming opened up on his side's struggles and blamed the mega auction strategy last year.

"It is hard to say we got it completely right with the performances that we have had," he said.

"So we have been looking over that in detail just ...