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CSK part ways with head coach Stephen Fleming after 18 years | Cricket News

CSK part ways with head coach Stephen Fleming after 18 years | Cricket News

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1 min readJul 13, 2026 11:44 AM IST Chennai Super Kings have parted ways with head coach Stephen Fleming after 18 years, the five-time Indian Premier League winners announced the decision on Monday. With 5 titles and two Champions League titles, Fleming remains the most decorated coach in the IPL. MORE TO FOLLOW Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Stephen Fleming Set to Continue as CSK Head Coach Despite Disappointing IPL 2026 Campaign

Stephen Fleming Set to Continue as CSK Head Coach Despite Disappointing IPL 2026 Campaign

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The former New Zealander Stephen Fleming is set to continue as CSK head coach despite a poor outing in the last two seasons. According to reports, the franchise is likely to continue with Fleming amidst the social media campaigns in the wake of back-to-back disappointing campaigns in the previous seasons. The five-time champions completed 10th in the 2025 season and eighth in the 2026 season, which has struck the franchise’s reputation around success and consistency. However, CSK appear unwilling to make a panic-driven decision. Stephen Fleming has been associated with the franchise since the start of the IPL in 2008 and took over as head coach in 2009. His report is renewed annually, and the report states that it is set to be extended once again this year. It is said that the decision also underlines the influence of MS Dhoni in CSK’s cricketing affairs. The duo have shared a successful captain-coach partnership in IPL history, and their professional relationship remains central to the franchise’s decision-making structure. Stephen Fleming’s position as CSK head coach had …

‘That’s the management’s call’: Stephen Fleming on his future as CSK head coach | Cricket News

‘That’s the management’s call’: Stephen Fleming on his future as CSK head coach | Cricket News

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3 min readChennaiMay 19, 2026 08:48 AM IST As the five-wicket defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad pushed Chennai Super Kings to the brink, their hopes of qualification for the play-offs isn’t in their hands anymore. Should they fail to make it, it would be the third successive season that Chennai have failed to make the play-offs. With the pressure piling on head coach Stephen Fleming, the Kiwi has refused to confirm his continuity, revealing the decision would be taken by the management. Since arriving at the franchise as a player during the inaugural edition of the IPL in 2008, Fleming took charge as the head coach in the 2009 and has since become the longest serving coach at any IPL franchise. With 5 titles and two Champions League titles, Fleming is the most decorated coach in IPL, but after another failed shot at making the play-offs, there has been growing displeasure among the CSK faithful. Those noises had reached Fleming which he acknowledged early in the season. And speaking shortly after their defeat to Hyderabad, Fleming …

‘Why will they take the risk now?’

‘Why will they take the risk now?’

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3 min readApr 27, 2026 12:39 PM IST Even as the suspense over when MS Dhoni would play in IPL 2026 continues, former India off-spinner and Dhoni’s CSK teammate Ravichandran Ashwin has hinted that the 44-year-old would play only if the team is out of the running for the Playoffs. The 39-year-old felt there did not seem to be a clear reason for the five-time IPL champions to bring Dhoni into the side, with their qualification chances still intact. “If CSK gets out of the tournament, then MS Dhoni might play. CSK are still in the tournament, so why will they take the risk now? I still feel that CSK have a chance to qualify for the playoffs. But yeah, it is difficult. The way CSK have played in the last five matches, it has given them a little confidence. CSK’s bowling is firing, if their batting fires, they can put together three wins on the bounce,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel. Head coach Stephen Fleming had said that Dhoni had “tweaked” his calf …

MS Dhoni regains full fitness, but reluctant to come back into CSK’s playing XI; informs team management: Report

MS Dhoni regains full fitness, but reluctant to come back into CSK’s playing XI; informs team management: Report

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) talisman MS Dhoni is yet to take the field in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 edition, and suspense remains over his participation against the Gujarat Titans at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. According to an Indian Express report, the 44-year-old has regained full fitness, but the wicketkeeper-batter is reluctant to walk back into the playing XI. Before the start of the 19th edition of the T20 tournament, the five-time champions had said that Dhoni would miss the first two weeks of the competition owing to a calf injury. MS Dhoni during a practice session ahead of CSK’s next match against Gujarat Titans (PTI) However, one month has passed since the tournament started, and there are no signs of Dhoni on the field. The World Cup-winning captain has been training with the team on the eve of the matches, but on game days, he chooses not to travel to the venue. Ahead of the match against the Gujarat Titans, an Indian Express report stated that Dhoni doesn’t walk …

Will CSK push Ruturaj Gaikwad to no 3? Chennai Super Kings’ Stephen Fleming says, ‘We talk about everything’

Will CSK push Ruturaj Gaikwad to no 3? Chennai Super Kings’ Stephen Fleming says, ‘We talk about everything’

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3 min readHyderabadUpdated: Apr 17, 2026 07:50 PM IST Ruturaj Gaikwad’s form this season has been poor. Five games into the campaign, the Chennai Super Kings skipper has scored just 63 runs at an average of 12.60. Although Gaikwad has been a consistent performer for CSK in the past, the way he approaches the format at the top of the order in the powerplay has not been ideal in how IPL is shaping up. CSK’s opposition for Saturday, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s openers, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma, have laid the blueprint in 2024 and are continuing to redefine the boundaries of what can be done when the field restrictions are in place in the first six. Chennai does have the option of using Ayush Mhatre, who has given glimpses with a few innings already of that modern T20 DNA similar to his peer, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. This has opened the chatter if Mhatre should open the batting and Gaikwad should be pushed down to three. “We talk about everything,” said head coach Stephen Fleming, if there are …

How MS Dhoni’s advice helped Noor Ahmad deliver a Player of the Match performance against KKR

How MS Dhoni’s advice helped Noor Ahmad deliver a Player of the Match performance against KKR

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3 min readApr 15, 2026 07:00 AM IST Prior to Tuesday’s IPL 2026 outing against Kolkata Knight Riders, Noor Ahmad had endured a tough few months. Since January, he had just one wicket to his name, which came in the previous home match against Delhi Capitals. But on Tuesday, he bounced back to form, picking up 3/21 in four overs in Chennai Super Kings’ 32-run win over Kolkata and walked away with the Player of the Match award for his spell. On a pitch that assisted the spinners, Noor didn’t try anything extraordinary. And more importantly, didn’t overuse his googly and relied on the one that comes back into the right-hander. As he roared back to form, CSK’s bowling coach Sridharan Sriram credited MS Dhoni for having a crucial chat with Noor, where the former captain emphasised not to overuse the googly. “I think it was good, the wicket helped today. There was a little bit of help for him. The other wickets were quite flat. Today, I think he was a little bit slower …

IPL | Stephen Fleming on criticism of losing pace with T20s: Never spent more time studying T20 cricket | Cricket News

IPL | Stephen Fleming on criticism of losing pace with T20s: Never spent more time studying T20 cricket | Cricket News

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4 min readChennaiApr 10, 2026 07:24 PM IST Having began the new IPL season with three losses in a low, which has seen Chennai Super Kings have just four wins from 17 matches since 2025, plenty of questions have been raised about the role of head coach Stephen Fleming. Despite winning five titles, last season CSK appeared far off the pack as they finished last in the league. And post their latest defeat against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the scrutiny fell on Fleming. Having been in the chair for 18 seasons now, there is criticism among CSK fans that Fleming hasn’t kept pace with the pace at which T20 has evolved in the last couple of years. Ahead of their game against Delhi Capitals on Saturday, Fleming admitted that criticism was fair. “Criticism is fair when you don’t do well. That’s part of the position. Look, I’m coaching throughout the year in two other competitions (SA20 and MLC), and I’m doing auctions across a lot of players. So it’s not that I just turn off and …

Who really runs CSK now? The Dhoni–Fleming question deepens

Who really runs CSK now? The Dhoni–Fleming question deepens

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What once looked like stability now looks like structure under strain — and responsibility is harder to separate from influence. The IPL has never really traded in the kind of public needling that defines football management. Opposition coaches do not usually take sly digs at their peers the way Premier League managers do. Which is why Hemang Badani’s assessment of Stephen Fleming landed so sharply — and why, with Chennai Super Kings in visible decline, it now feels less like provocation than a challenge. Badani’s claim was blunt: CSK were not really being run by Fleming at all, but by MS Dhoni. Fleming, he suggested, was celebrated for a success he had not replicated elsewhere, while Dhoni remained Chennai’s true cricketing brain, its “kingpin” and “maharaja”. At the time, it was easy to dismiss that as incendiary. Now it sits more uncomfortably. Because the question around Chennai is no longer simply why they are losing. It is who this failure belongs to. For years, CSK existed in a structure where everything — tactically, emotionally, symbolically …

Stephen Fleming calls for patience, insists underwhelming Indian rookies would be of ‘high value’ in future | Cricket News

Stephen Fleming calls for patience, insists underwhelming Indian rookies would be of ‘high value’ in future | Cricket News

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Fifteen years of coaching Chennai Super Kings has instilled in Stephen Fleming a sense of equanimity. Even in the darkest of hours, he remains unflustered and lets pragmatism rein over emotions. After suffering the third defeat of the season, which is swiftly unravelling, Fleming insisted that transitions take time and stressed on the wealth of the young talent at the team’s disposal. “I think we’ve got some really good talent. This is, there’s five or six new players that have started this season, but we think they are of high value moving forward,” he reiterated. Questions swirled on auction tactics, on the over-emphasis on young Indians and the jettisoning of seasoned personnel. Lungi Ngidi for instance. The team acquired Uttar Pradesh all-rounder Prashant Veer and Rajasthan wicket-keeper Kartik Sharma for a combined Rs 28.4 crore, that is almost 70 percent of their auction purse. Fleming reasoned: “As we reviewed last season, we had to spend a lot of money on Indian talent, so as to regenerate the franchise and create a foundation moving forward.” “We’d …