Dhoni continues to shine in Chepauk, returns after 1426 days and beats Lucknow in a fast-paced match

In the 16th season of the IPL, the Chennai Super Kings team has opened their winning tally by defeating the Lucknow team by 12 runs in their second match. Chasing the score of 218 runs in this match, the Lucknow Super Giants side could only reach the score of 205 runs with the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. Moin Ali took the maximum 4 wickets from Chennai Super Kings.

After the first play, Chennai had scored 217 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. In response to this, Lucknow, who scored 79 runs in 5 unbeaten overs, was only able to score 205 runs in stipulated overs. This is Chennai’s first win this season.

Chasing a score of 218 runs, the pairing of captain KL Rahul and Kyle Meyers, who started the innings for the Lucknow Super Giants side, began the run-scoring process early on. Together they both made a partnership of 79 runs for the first wicket in 6 overs. Following this, Moin Ali made Meyers his victim with a personal score of 53 and dealt the first blow to the Lucknow team.

After this, the second blow to the Lucknow team was dealt by Mitchell Santner with a score of 82 in the form of Deepak Hooda. At the same time, the captain of the Lucknow team, KL Rahul, also became a victim of Moin Ali with a personal score of 20. After a good start, there was suddenly pressure on the Lucknow team’s innings.

From here, a 23-run partnership was seen between Krunal Pandya and Marcus Stoinis for the fourth wicket, after which Pandya returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 while Stoinis scored 21 runs. Half of the Lucknow team had returned to the pavilion until the score of 130. Nicholas Pooran definitely tried to keep the team’s hope of victory alive, but he too returned to the pavilion after scoring 32 runs off 18 balls.

The Lucknow Super Giants team was able to manage to score just 205 runs in this match after the 20 overs finish. In this match for Chennai, Moin Ali took 4 wickets giving just 26 runs in 4 overs while Tushar Deshpande took 2 wickets while Mitchell Santner took 1 wicket on his behalf.

Talking about the Chennai Super Kings team’s innings in this match, the starting pairing of Riturat Gaikwad and Devon Conway got the team off to a great start and made a brilliant partnership of 110 runs for the first wicket. Rituraj’s bat also saw a brilliant innings of half a century in this match, in which he played a brilliant innings of 57 runs off 31 balls, apart from this Kanve’s bat also saw a brilliant innings of 47 runs off 29 balls.

In the last over for Chennai, Ambati Rayudu played an important role taking the team’s score past 200 on an unbeaten 27 from 14 balls. In the last over, Dhoni also hit 2 brilliant sixes as the Chennai side managed to reach a score of 217 for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. In the Lucknow bowling, Mark Wood and Ravi Bishnoi took 3-3 wickets.