Despite the fight by local boy Sai Sudharsan, the Titans couldn’t threaten the CSK bowlers much and lost the battle, falling short by 63 runs.
For the local people at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Tuesday night had everything — crowd-favourite MS Dhoni jumping to take a capture, Shivam Dube and Rachin Ravindra’s engaging hitting, and a comfortable Chennai Super Lords (CSK) win.
Ruturaj Gaikwad’s Super Kings were all over Shubman Gill’s Gujarat Titans (GT) right from the starting – the as it were thing that didn’t go their way was the coin hurl. The choice of being put into bat as well inevitably went in support of the domestic group which finished up scoring 206/6 on a Chepauk wicket which had a tinge of green.
Despite a few of them getting begins and the solitary battle by the neighborhood boy Sai Sudharsan (37 off 31), GT couldn’t undermine the CSK bowlers much and misplaced the fight, falling brief by 63 runs.
Deepak Chahar drew to begin with blood when he got Shubman Gill struck in front in the third over and at that point got the other opener Wriddhiman Saha caught in the following over.
But the loudest cheer that reverberated over the ‘Anbuden’ was when Vijay Shankar was caught by a flying 42-year-old wearing the number seven shirt who goes by the title Dhoni.
Nothing worked right for the going to group as the hitters kept losing wickets routinely and the yellow brigade kept emitting in bliss as the night slid with CSK’s moment win in a push to begin the IPL 2024 season.
It all started when Ravindra picked Umesh Yadav’s length ball towards square leg for a six some time recently slicing him towards cover for a four in the moment over. The 24-year-old Kiwi displayed a wide run of shots amid his 20-ball thump that included three sixes and six fours. It was Rashid Khan who inevitably beat him in the discuss and got him puzzled in the final over of the PowerPlay.
The following excitement appear started in the 11th over when Dube strolled in at number four and tonked R Sai Kishore for two sixes off his to begin with two balls. In a offered to keep Dube absent from spinners, Gill presented Mohit Sharma into the assault and kept Spencer Johnson from the other conclusion.
However, it didn’t matter for the southpaw who nailed his pulls and snares against the two seamers to proceed the assault in the center overs. No boundary line experiences from head coach Ashish Nehra worked for the GT bowlers as Dube come to his fifty in 22 balls, hitting five sixes and two fours some time recently Rashid Khan got him out in the penultimate over.
Sandwiched between two hurried thumps was a calm 46 off 36 balls by captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, who was dropped by Sai Kishore at slip in to begin with over — he was in the long run caught behind when he endeavored to drag one off Johnson.
The last thrust to CSK’s innings was given by Sameer Rizvi, who, off his to begin with ball of IPL, trudge cleared Rashid for a six and at that point charged down the track to hit another. Know More Latest IPL Cricket News…
