Eight playoffs in eight seasons, six last appearances, two titles won. There is no scrutinizing Chennai Super Kings’ consistency in the Indian Premier League or the pretended by their commander MS Dhoni. They have prided themselves on being an affectionate gathering, spinning around a center gathering of players that they have kept together season after season.

Part of the way through 2015 notwithstanding, one began getting the inclination that the longing for consistency offered approach to strategic inflexibility in the Super Kings camp. We can contend everything we can what about the result at Eden Gardens would have been distinctive if Dhoni had won the hurl and decided to bat.

At the same time, Chennai lost this last to Mumbai Indians – by a gigantic edge of 41 runs – and this is on the grounds that they made it to the last while never testing an ‘Arrangement B’. They couldn’t recoup from Mumbai’s invasion in light of the fact that the group – on the night and in the last 50% of this season – needed capability in batting.

At the point when Dhoni chose to bowl first on a Kolkata pitch that resembled a decent batting wicket, he was intensely relying upon his bowlers to come great. He needed to limit Mumbai to a sensible aggregate, with the goal that his out-of-structure batting lineup did not need to pursue much. It was, as it would turn out, his bowlers who dragged his group through, first to the playoffs and after that to the last. So Dhoni believed them to convey one final time.

Be that as it may, much the same as it happened at Wankhede a couple of days prior in the first qualifier, Mumbai pursued the bowlers – particularly the spinners. Rohit Sharma, Lendl Simmons and Kieron Pollard realized that once Dhoni’s primary weapons are hit out of the assault, he would need to have a go at something new to draw them back. They destroyed the Chennai spinners on a track which we later discovered was not that simple to bat on, as R Ashwin, P Negi and Ravindra Jadeja were permitted to bowl just six overs that went for 65 runs.

With Nehra not getting his typical early wickets, Dhoni needed to swing to Dwayne Smith out of every other person on earth to attempt and apply the brakes on the Mumbai batting. It met expectations, quickly, as he disposed of Lendl Simmons. Anyway, in Pollard, Mumbai has a batsman who devours these average bowlers who are neither pacy enough to bob him out nor sufficiently precarious to outsmart him.

Mumbai heaped up 202 keeps running toward the end of overs and there was the feeling that the amusement was at that point out of Chennai’s scope.

Consistent with structure, Chennai’s batsmen were never in the pursuit by any means. Dwayne Smith battled, yet the harm was done when the top-request oversaw just 35 keeps running in the initial six overs. Michael Hussey fizzled, Suresh Raina fizzled, Dhoni fizzled, and Faf du Plessis fizzled.

In the end, CSK neglected to go past the last obstacle for the fourth time in their six last appearances.

It’s an age old cricketing maxim that you don’t upset the triumphant blend. At the point when your ‘Arrangement An’ is working so well, there is regularly no compelling reason to tinker with things like Stephen Fleming and Dhoni continued rehashing when gotten some information about turning their squad prior this season.

At the same time, the issue this season was that the default Plan A was just scarcely steadily meeting expectations. Brendon McCullum’s structure at the highest point of the request went about as a band-help to an injury that cut somewhat more profound than the CSK research organization set out to recognize. With McCullum out of the picture, none of their other match-champs could step it up. They couldn’t even take a gander at the seat for a player with a X-Factor to shake things up.

Raina had his most noticeably bad IPL so far and his standard enormous thump in a major match in the yellow shirt never arrived. Dhoni too had a forgettable season with the bat, frequently easing off procedures attempting to get his eye in. “I went in and ate up an excess of conveyances,” Dhoni had said after the first loss of the season to Rajasthan Royals. The center request, basically, was faltering.

The Chennai Super Kings were eventually discovered needing on the grounds that when the going got extreme, they didn’t figure out how to wriggle themselves out of it.

Every single extraordinary mastermind and pioneers of current games have the skill to shake things up when they hit a groove – like Sir Alex Ferguson over and again did with his Manchester United sides. Chennai fans would be seeking after the same next season. Consistency, in the event that it implies always completing second best, can turn into a dangerous habit.