Shane Watson could not score a single run off the first 10 balls he faced in the match. After that, there was no looking back. He broke the shackles w𒐪ith a four and then it started raining boundaries at the Wankhede stadium.
Even then, the damage done by that lean run in the powerplay was telling and the difference between their run rate and what was required remained a significant number. That all changed in the 13th over in which Watson slammed a four and a hat-trick of sixes off Sandeep Sharma. Suresh Raina squared that over off with a four. 27 runs off that single over and CSK’s required run rate was almost cut by half.
Raina was had to depart after that but Watson played through despite dealing with an injury. He ended the innings with an u𓄧nbeaten 117 off 57 balls to power CSK to a t𒁃hird IPL title.
Here’s how the Twitter world reacted to CSK’s win:
Chennai Super Champion Kings!
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Congratulations Chennai Superkings on becoming deservin💜g champions of the biggest T20 tournament in the world. Brilliant throughout the tournament and the wonderful people from Chennai and whole of TN deserve this .
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
Super Coach … Super Captain … Winning a Super Tournament …
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
— Dwayne DJ Bravo (@DJBravo47)
One team that continued to dominate th🤪e throughout the ꦏ got the better of them again tonight. The 4th time this year . Hard luck for the .
— Anjum Chopra (@chopraanjum)
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
What a great knock to fi🐭nish off the IPL . Congratulations well deserved win !
— Jasprit Bumrah (@Jaspritbumrah93)
Fairytale complete . Not bad for the o𒀰ld blokes of the ��👌🏽👏🏽 Enjoy the celebrations
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
When ever it’s at
It’s the captain of the this century takes the🍬 trophy 🏆 home !!— thaman S (@MusicThaman)
Congrats to what a knock Gr꧙eat game of cricket 👏👏👏
— Angelo Mathews (@Angelo69Mathews)
Winner winner dinner!!!
— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris)
Congratulations to and for wꦅinning the 2018 the two best teams got the finals but the best team won.
— Daren Sammy (@darensammy88)
Congratulation💧s to for winning the . Dominant performance by them and also well done to for a wonderful season. 👍
— Mahela Jayawardena (@MahelaJay)
Having not played for 2 years, do it in style. New heroes in every victory and prove𒁏 again that no substitute for experience. Champion team and a massiv♏e victory
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Former champions really played like champions t🎉hroughout the season. Congratulations and🎶 for yet another IPL trophy. Surely the best T20 team in the world!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
When ever it’s at
It’s the captain of the this centur♓y takes the trophy 🏆𓂃 home !!— thaman S (@MusicThaman)
Congratulations csk boy's well done and we'll played @lionsdenkxip
— 𝕸𝖔𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖉 𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖎 (@MdShami11)
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So CSK again champion in IPL. All those who conspired with Dawood to see CSK go to rack and ruinܫ should hang their heads in shame: I mean Pawar, Jaitely and Rajiv Shukla who wanted to eliminate Srܫinivasan from cricket
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39)
When ever it’s at
It’s the captai🧔n of the thꦰis century takes the trophy 🏆 home !!— thaman S (@MusicThaman)
2008 IPL – shane watson, man of the series
2018 IPL- shane watson, man of the final— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
