IPL 2022: In the IPL match played against Punjab Kings on Sunday, Chennai Super Kings suffered a humiliating defeat by 54 runs. This has been the worst performance of Chennai Super Kings in the history of IPL.
The start of the IPL 2022 season for Chennai Super Kings (CSK) has been very bad so far. Chennai Super Kings have suffered defeat in three consecutive matches.
This has been the worst performance of Chennai Super Kings in the history of IPL. Chennai Super Kings suffered a humiliating defeat by 54 runs in the IPL match played against Punjab Kings on Sunday.
No one else but Mahendra Singh Dhoni was responsible for this crushing defeat of Chennai Super Kings.
The hero of Chennai became the main reason for his defeat.
Actually, in this match, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of Chennai Super Kings, made such a mistake, which almost fixed the defeat of CSK.
The first two wickets of the Punjab Kings team, who came to bat first against Chennai Super Kings, fell for 14 runs. After this Punjab Kings batsman, Liam Livingstone came to bat.
In the eighth over of the Punjab Kings innings, Mahendra Singh Dhoni left the catch of Liam Livingstone behind the wicket of Chennai Super Kings bowler Pretorius.
Fans also lashed out
When Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropped the catch of Liam Livingstone, he was batting on 45 runs. Leaving the catch of Liam Livingstone cost the Chennai Super Kings very dearly.
Liam Livingstone was dismissed after scoring 60 off 32 balls, which included 5 fours and 5 sixes. Mahendra Singh Dhoni proved to be the biggest villain for Chennai Super Kings leaving the catch of Liam Livingstone.
Chennai Super Kings suffered a humiliating defeat by 54 runs against Punjab Kings. Fans on social media have also lashed out at Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
With the bat also proved to be the reason for defeat for Chennai
Liam Livingstone completed his fifty off 27 balls. Batting, Punjab Kings scored 180 runs for 8 wickets. In response, the defending champion Chennai Super Kings team got out after scoring 126 runs in 18 overs.
If Mahendra Singh Dhoni had caught the catch of Liam Livingstone, Punjab Kings could not have scored 180 runs.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni proved to be the cause of defeat for Chennai Super Kings with the bat as well. Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a slow inning of 23 runs from 28 balls against Punjab Kings.
Chennai Super King’s batting proved to be a huge flop
The batting of Chennai Super Kings proved to be a very flop in this match. Rituraj Gaikwad became the victim of fast bowler Kagiso Rabada by scoring one run.
In the next over, Robin Uthappa scored 13 runs off 10 balls and was dismissed by Vaibhav Arora. After this, Moeen Ali could not even open the account and became a victim of Vaibhav. The team had lost 3 wickets for 22 runs.
Captain Ravindra Jadeja also fell victim to fast bowler Arshdeep Singh on zero. Odeon Smith to Ambati Rayudu. He scored 13 runs. After 5 wickets fell early, Dhoni and Shivam Dubey tried to handle the team by adding 62 runs for the sixth wicket.
But Livingstone turned the match by dismissing Shivam Dubey and Bravo in 2 balls. Defending champion Chennai Super Kings team got out after scoring 126 runs in 18 overs.