The Australian pacer also highlighted the importance of having a left-arm quick like Yash Dayal in the squad.

“It really lifts us up as bowlers. Any time you get injured, you can feel down, but if you use that time nicely and get some good gym work in, it’s a nice position to be in. I think having a left-armer (Yash Dayal) is crucial. Every team in the competition has a left-arm quick, and his changes of pace were excellent today—he is a class act,” he said.

CSK captain Gaikwad admitted his side was chasing at least 20 runs more than the par score.

“I still feel 170 was a par score on this wicket. It wasn’t that easy to bat. Bad fielding cost us. When you’re chasing 170, you have a little more time, but when you’re chasing 20 runs extra, you have to bat differently in the Powerplay, and it didn’t happen today,” Gaikwad said.

“It (wicket) got a little slower, a little sticky. The new ball was sticking a bit. Don’t know how it happened. Rahul backed his shot, I backed mine as well. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.”

Gaikwad also pointed out the need for improvement in CSK’s fielding efforts.

“I feel the fielding has to improve a lot, and we have to come back stronger in the fielding department. We dropped catches, boundaries kept coming, and they (RCB) kept going—the momentum didn’t stop till the last over.

“But at the end, we didn’t lose by a big margin, just 50 runs. Definitely a different scenario when you have three world-class spinners in the team. You want new batters to face them. It didn’t happen this time.

“There’s a long flight to Guwahati (for the next match), but we just have to turn up mentally and see which areas we can improve,” he added.