In the match played in Pune on 1 May, CSK defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 13 runs. Today on this ground Dhoni’s team will play against Royal Challengers Bangalore who are struggling to keep up with consistency.
Chennai Super Kings is left with no other options than winning consecutive matches but at the same time, they will take on every match with as a single challenge. However, against Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings will fancy their chances.
CSK will have to win the match to maintain their hopes of reaching the last four. This match against RCB is special for Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He will achieve individual achievement in this match.
MS Dhoni will play 200th IPL match for Chennai Super Kings today. He will be only the second player to play 200 or more matches for a franchise. Before him, Virat Kohli has played 200 or more matches for a team. Virat has played 217 matches for RCB so far. Virat Kohli holds the record for playing most matches for a team in IPL.
MS Dhoni will play his 302nd match as T20 captain today. He has so far scored 5994 T20 runs as captain. If he scores 6 more runs today, then Dhoni will complete 6 thousand runs as a captain. He will be the second captain to make this record. Virat Kohli has scored 6451 runs while captaining in 190 T20 matches. He has scored five centuries and 48 half-centuries in T20 cricket.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore has been Dhoni’s nemesis for a long time, he gets in assassin mode as he finds himself playing against Royal Challengers Bangalore. In the last match against RCB, this job was done by Shivam Dube and Robin Uthappa.
He has scored 836 runs against RCB so far. Apart from this, MS Dhoni has hit 46 sixes against Bangalore. If Dhoni hits 4 sixes against Bangalore in today’s match, then he will become the first Indian player to hit 50 sixes against any team in IPL which will be an astonishing record of dominance.