Courtesy: BCCI/IPL
Indian cricketer Piyush Chawla called out the decision of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to retire out Devon Conway during their pursuit of the 220-run target against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 clash at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur. The 37-year-old stated that Devon Conway is more of a technically strong batter, and he struggled to clear the ropes consistently in the latter stages of the innings versus PBKS, which is why CSK missed their chance to retire him out earlier.
Notably, after winning the toss and batting first, PBKS posted a big score of 219/6 in their allotted 20 overs on the back of a maiden IPL hundred from youngster Priyansh Arya and an unbeaten fifty from Shashank Singh. In response, CSK kept losing wickets at regular intervals, and they were always a step or two behind the required run rate, and despite the late flurry of sixes from MS Dhoni, they fell short of the target by 18 runs.
During the run chase, Devon Conway batted till the 18th over of the CSK innings before being retired out to send Ravindra Jadeja into bat after the New Zealander wasn’t able to hit boundaries regularly enough. The left-handed batter scored 69 runs in 49 balls with six fours and two maximums, which wasn’t quite enough for his team to get the better of a high class PBKS side in their own den.
When Shivam was trying to hit those big shots, Conway didn't even try that: Piyush Chawla
While talking about the CSK’s decision to retire out Devon Conway against PBKS in the run chase, Piyush Chawla was quoted as saying to ESPNcricinfo on their TimeOut Show, “Conway is the kind of batter who is more technically strong and he doesn't try to play that [many shots] in the air. You saw that in the middle overs also, when he was trying to hit a pull shot also, he was rolling his wrists like a proper technical batsman.”
That's where they missed that point. When Shivam [Dube] was trying to hit those big shots, Conway didn't even try that. At one point, I felt he just wanted to take it deep. But if you want to take the game deep, you don't want your [asking] rate to go out of hand,” he added.
