Dhoni Lights Up Chepauk

CSK beat LSG by 12 on their return to Chepauk after 2019

It was a sea of Yellow at MA Chidambaram stadium as Chennai Tremendous Kings made a return at their house floor after 4 years as they took on the undefeated Lucknow Tremendous Giants of their second match of the event. It was an important match for the Tremendous Kings as they began the event on a nasty word as the lads in yellow misplaced their first match towards the defending champions Gujrat Titans. One of many components of the defeat was the shortage of runs on the scoreboard because the crew might solely attain a complete of 178 on a wicket the place 200 was presupposed to be a successful complete and ultimately ended up on the dropping aspect. The match towards LSG supplied a possibility for CSK to proper the wrongs and provide you with a strong efficiency at their den that Chepauk has been.

Speaking concerning the match, LSG received the toss and elected to bowl first on a wicket that was thought of to be a batting paradise and the specialists predicted a par complete of 190-200 runs. One of many causes for Lucknow’s choice to bowl first was that they anticipated dew to play a serious position within the second innings which makes chasing simple. However the one method the crew batting first can negate the position of dew is by placing large runs on the board and that’s precisely what CSK did. 

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The opening pair of Devon Conway and Ruturaj Gikwad gave CSK a blistering begin because the duo scored 79 runs within the first six overs and continued the identical until the tenth over earlier than Ravi Bishnoi foxed Ruturaj who scored his second half-century of the season in as many video games at an excellent strike charge which was one thing Chennai missed final season as Ruturaj was not capable of rating large runs in 2022. However this yr he has began with a bang as he scored 92 within the season opener and adopted it up with a fast knock of 57 within the second match. After the autumn of Rutu’s wicket in walked Shivam Dube who was promoted within the batting order to tackle the leg-spin of Bishnoi and he did simply that by hitting him for back-to-back sixes earlier than Miscuing one to get out caught after a fast fireplace 27 off simply 16 balls. The CSK batters didn’t should do a lot after such a rollicking begin given by their high order and small contributions from Stokes, Moen, Raydu, and Dhoni who hit Mark Wooden for 2 back-to-back sixes finishing 5000 IPL runs within the course of, propelled the full to 217-7 on the finish of 20 overs.

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Chasing a goal of 218, LSG obtained off to a flier as Mayers and Rahul added 80 runs within the powerplay earlier than Mayers obtained out after scoring one other Half century his second of the season in as many video games. However as soon as he obtained out Lucknow’s batting fell like 9 pins as they misplaced wickets at common intervals. A lot of the batters threw their wicket away attempting to play large photographs which value LSG the sport they have been wanting set to chase the goal comfortably solely to wrestle towards Moen and Santner who picked up 5 wickets between them serving to information CSK to a hard-fought win.