Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 3 wickets in the 33rd match of the 15th season of the Indian Premier League on Thursday. This match was played at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai.
Chennai Super Kings captain Ravindra Jadeja won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai Indians struggled to score good runs in the powerplay. Also, they kept losing wickets on regular intervals. In response, Chennai achieved the target in 20 overs at the loss of 7 wickets.
Down the order, of Tilak Verma and Hrithik Shokeen helped Mumbai’s score reach 155 runs. Tilak scored 51 runs in 43 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 3 fours. Debutant Hrithik played an innings of 25 runs in 25 balls.
Rohit Sharma was caught by Santner on the delivery of Mukesh Chaudhary without opening the account. After this, Ishan Kishan also handed over his wicket to Mukesh Chaudhary on the score of 0.
For CSK, Uthappa scored 30 runs in 25 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 2 fours. Santner scored 11 runs in 9 balls with the help of 2 fours. Ambati Rayudu and Shivam Dube helped Chennai’s innings to cross 100 runs. Rayudu scored 40 runs in 35 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 2 fours. MS Dhoni’s brilliant innings in the last over ensured Chennai victory. Dhoni played a match winning innings of 28 runs in 13 balls with the help of 1 six and 3 fours.