Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Dwayne Bravo could
be out of action “for a few days or a couple of weeks” in the Indian
Premier League following a groin injury, team-head coach Stephen Fleming
informed on Saturday, as per PTI report.

Bravo who could not bowl the final over in
Chennai Super Kings match against Delhi Capitals,  ensured the victory of the latter. Ravindra
Jadeja conceded 17 runs needed of the last over as Chennai slumped to a sixth
loss.

Coach Fleming stated at the
end of the match, “He (Bravo) seems to have a right groin injury,
obviously it was serious enough to keep him from coming back to the field, he
is just really disappointed that he was not able to bowl the final over, that’s
pretty much for what he is in the team for.”

Bravo’s injury deals a
crushing blow to the Chennai outfit who are still reeling from the effect of
the vacancies left by Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh. Raina’s absence has left
a gaping hole in the middle order of the Chennai side.

“He would have to be
reassessed going forward, at this stage, you would imagine that it would take a
few days or a couple of weeks,” Fleming said after CSK’s five-wicket loss.

Talking about the decision
to Jadeja in the final over, Fleming said that the spinner was the only option.

“Unfortunately Dwayne
Bravo got injured so he could not bowl the last over, naturally he is a death
bowler, that’s the way our season has been going, we are having challenges
thrown at us,” Fleming said at the post-match press conference.

“Jadeja was not planned
to bowl at the death, but with Bravo getting injured, we did not have any other
option. We did well to create a situation where it could have worked for us but
we have to keep working hard and turn it around,” added Fleming.

Fleming also rued the
dropped changes and praised opposition batsmen Shikhar Dhawan for his maiden
century.

Fleming said, “Well, we gave Shikhar
Dhawan a few lives, he was playing well, we had opportunities to take his
wicket early but we did not take them.

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“He was playing aggressively and he was
staying right up there with the required run-rate, if we had got him out, we
could have put pressure on their middle-lower order, the game might have been
different, dropping three-four catches against him was a bit too many,”
added the former Kiwi captain.

Fleming added,” “It was difficult early on, the way we played in the back five was
promising, some good hitting from us to get there at 180, we if had taken our
chances, it would have been a match-winning score but it was not to be.”