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Best performances - Batsmen

RD Gaikwad
RD Gaikwad
67(58) 9x4 - 0x6
Control %89%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 13 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
11 3 16 11 18 0 3 5
SS Iyer
SS Iyer
34(32) 3x4 - 0x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 12 runs
  • 2x4 - 0x6
5 5 4 1 2 4 2 11

Best performances - Bowlers

RA Jadeja
RA Jadeja
O4
M0
R18
W3
Eco4.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W
TU Deshpande
TU Deshpande
O4
M0
R33
W3
Eco8.25
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

Chennai Super Kings , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-21.00, Interval 21.00-21.20, Second Session 21.20-22.50

Match days

8 April 2024 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Chennai Super Kings 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0

Scorer: Sudeep Poojar | Commentator: Shashank Kishore

Thanks for joining us. This is Shashank Kishore saying goodbye on behalf of Ashish Pant and Chandan Duroah. Cheers, take care.

11.01pm CSK have turned a banana peel of a chase into an absolute cruise at dewy Chepauk. Ravindra Jadeja led their turnaround after KKR set themselves up superbly in the Powerplay, and then with the bat, Gaikwad and Mitchell laid the foundation of a chase that they were always in control of. And that means, KKR have been consigned to their first defeat this season.

Ravindra Jadeja is PoM for his 3/18. "My title hasn't yet been verified, hopefully they'll give me one [laughs]. I always enjoy my bowling on this track. I was hoping the ball grips a little, if you bowl in the right areas with helps you. For visiting teams it takes time to settle in and plan, you hardly get 2-3 days, for a visiting team to come here, play and identify the surface is little difficult. We know our conditions better."

Ruturaj Gaikwad: Bit of nostalgia for me. My first IPL fifty, Mahi bhai was with me to finish the match. With Jinx injured, onus was on me to bat through, didn't want to put the youngsters in a difficult situation. Was a 150-160 wicket. Jaddu always comes in after the power play with momentum in the spin department. With this team, I don't really need to tell things to anyone. Everyone's in a great head space, Mahi bhai and Fleming are still around to take those calls. I wouldn't say mine is a slow start, in T20s there are times you nick off one or two balls, sometimes you need a bit of luck to get going, maybe something for experts to talk about, with my strike rate (laughs)."

Daryl Mitchell: "Always nice to play in front of a special crowd, pretty cool. When you know surface is on the slower side, it's about building a partnership and take it as deep as we could. He's world class, for me it's coming up with plans to put pressure on those guys. The way Rutu got the job out there was amazing to see. There was a bit of turn and bounce, for us it was about building partnerships and allow ourselves into a position to finish it off. I don't mind wherever I bat, here to win games of cricket and get the job done.

Shreyas Iyer, tonight's losing captain: It's deafening out here, will try to express how I'm feeling. We fell short in terms of assessing the wicket. Phenomenal start in the power play but we couldn't capitalize. Couldn't assess conditions, pitch completely changed after power play and to score runs, it wasn't easy. They know conditions pretty well, bowled according to their plan. It was tacky, wasn't easy to go big right from first ball. It changed tremendously after power play and the way we were trying to construct our innings, didn't go to plan. We take those learnings and move forward. We were in a comfortable place, thought 160-170 was a great score. That was our plan but when you lose consecutive wickets it's difficult to carry forward momentum. Have to go back to our drawing board and learn, just a matter of one match and one innings, glad it happened at the start of the tournament. When we go back, we know our home conditions pretty well, important to analyze and assess situations and make the best use of it.

17.4
4
Roy to Gaikwad, FOUR, width on offer and Gaikwad makes room to slap this through cover for four! Game, set and match as CSK make it 3/3 at home

The field comes in

17.3
1
Roy to Dhoni, 1 run, tucks it gently into the square leg region for a single. Scores level
17.2
0
Roy to Dhoni, no run, shortish on the stumps, defended back

Can he finish it off in style?

17.1
1
Roy to Gaikwad, 1 run, steered wide of point. The roar gets louder as Dhoni takes strike

Will Gaikwad bunt a single and throw it open to MS to finish it off?

END OF OVER:
17 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | CSK: 135/3 (3 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 7.94, RRR: 1.00)

  • MS Dhoni0 (1b)
  • Ruturaj Gaikwad62 (56b)
  • Vaibhav Arora4-0-28-2
  • Varun Chakravarthy4-0-26-0
16.6
0
Arora to Dhoni, no run, driven straight to cover.
16.5
W
Arora to Dube, OUT, looks to finish it off in style but misses this full and straight delivery and sees the stumps flattened. May have been better off trying to hit it straight rather than attempting a heave. As Dube was out, there's a roar that engulfs Chepauk. And that's because MS Dhoni is walking out to bat

S Dube b Arora 28 (19m 18b 1x4 3x6) SR: 155.55

CSK 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st27R RavindraRD Gaikwad
2nd70DJ MitchellRD Gaikwad
3rd38S DubeRD Gaikwad
4th6MS DhoniRD Gaikwad

Indian Premier League

TeamMWLPTNRR
KKR1493201.428
SRH1485170.414
RR1485170.273
RCB1477140.459
CSK1477140.392
DC147714-0.377
LSG147714-0.667
GT145712-1.063
PBKS145910-0.353
MI144108-0.318