CSK vs MI: MS Dhoni hits the winning runs as Chennai beat Mumbai at their Chepauk after 13 years
IPL 2023, CSK vs MI: Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets, in Match 49 of IPL 2023, at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Saturday. Chasing a target of 140 runs, CSK reached to 140/4 in 17.4 overs, with Devon Conway smacking 44 off 42 balls.
Meanwhile, Conway’s opening partner Ruturaj Gaikwad registered 30 runs off 16 deliveries and Shivam Dube played an unbeaten knock of 26 runs off 18 balls.
For MI’s bowling department, Piyush Chawla took two wickets. Initially, Nehal Wadhera’s knock of 64 off 51 balls took MI to 139/8 in 20 overs.
Matheesha Pathirana was in hot form for CSK’s bowling department, taking three wickets. Deepak Chahar and Tushar Deshpande bagged two dismissals each.
IPL 2023, CSK vs MI: MS Dhoni hit final runs in the El Clasico
There’s one thing called home advantage, another thing called total domination and then comes the game of Chennai Super Kings. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored the winning runs much to the delight of the adoring crowd at Chepauk. The last time CSK won against MI at Chepauk was in 2010, even before India had won the ODI World Cup under Dhoni.
For MI, it was a bad loss as they stay in sixth place with 10 points from as many games and very little margin for error after this match.
After opting to bowl, CSK bowlers left MI in disarray, reducing the opposition to 16 for 3 by the end of the third over.
In the MI innings, a maiden half-century in IPL by left-handed batter Nehal Wadhera (64, 51 balls, 8×4, 1×6) and his half-century partnerships with Suryakumar Yadav (26) and Tristan Stubbs (20) helped salvage things for MI, which lost three wickets by the third over and reach 139 for 8.
No amount of praise will be enough for Pathirana, who literally bottled the MI batters during the death overs as he didn’t concede a single boundary in his four-over spell.
Pathirana, who seems to be getting better with every game, gave away 2 runs in the 18th over and 5 runs in the final over as CSK strangled Mumbai Indians with pace, for a change. The MI batters could not get away the slinger from Sri Lanka in a modest performance.
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