The Chepauk paradox: Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar flip the script

It was a day of the absurd at Chepauk. Virat Kohli batted 30 balls and timed about five of them. MS Dhoni walked out to bat at No. 9, behind Ravichandran Ashwin, whose dismissal was weirdly cheered on by both sets of fans. And CSK lost to RCB at home after 6,155 days. Perhaps the strangest moment of all came after the game, in a terse press conference with the usually unflappable Stephen Fleming. In a brief and snappy exchange, the Chennai Super Kings head coach allowed himself a window of candour, admitting that he and his team