Fans and specialists discussing MS Dhoni's batting after CSK's failure to pursue the same old thing yet what was somewhat amazing was the way that Dhoni's captaincy likewise pulled in a considerable measure of analysis after CSK's loss to Rajasthan Royals.

Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen said he’s ‘not buying’ into Dhoni’s justification of batting at No.7 when CSK were chasing 217 to win.

Pietersen's remarks after Dhoni, toward the finish of the RR match, said he is coming after a long break and he needed to offer the chance to the likes of Jadeja and Sam Curran early on in the tournament.

“It’s not about experiments, saying ‘oh it’s early on in the tournament’. Let me tell you, T20 cricket can bite you very, very quickly. You can end up losing five games on the go very quickly and then you can end up thinking ‘oh my goodness, are we actually going to get into the finals?’. I am not buying into this nonsense,” said Pietersen on a post-match show for a sports news media channel.

“We want to try a few different things, like sending Sam or Jadeja. That’s something we haven’t done for a very long time and this gives us an opportunity to do that at the start of the tournament,” Dhoni said.

“As the tournament progresses, you will see the senior players stepping in and taking that added responsibility.

“Otherwise, we have been one team that has kept doing the same thing. I feel we have an opportunity to try a few different things. if it doesn’t work, we can go back to what our strength is,” he added.

Pietersen on the other hand, strongly believed that the result of the match could have been flipped if Dhoni had batted higher up in the batting order.

“You have to at least give yourself the opportunity to win the game. When you see how close they went, Du Plessis started to go, then MS Dhoni started hitting at the end and then they lost by only 16 runs.

“So we were talking about a 4 or 5-over period when they were just knocking it around, knocking it around and running silly singles. They could have caught the game up there with a little bit of intent. They could have easily knocked this score off. If you need 20 in the last over, you can win this game,” Pietersen said.