The defending champions, Chennai Super Kings (CSK), after the loss against Mumbai Indians (MIꦏ) in the first 🉐Qualifier, will now have to put extra efforts to make it to the IPL 2019 final.
On Tuesday, they lost the crucial encounter by 6 wickets after enormously talented Suryakumar Yadav played one of his finest knocks on a challenging Chepauk ൲wicket.
The result would ♏have been different had Murali Vijay helped CSK bowler Deep🥂ak Chahar dismiss Suryakumar in the fifth over of the MI run-chase.
Suryakumar was batting on 11, when he gave CSK a chance to get him out by a mistimed cross hit which found Vijay, who was standing at mid-on. The fielder dived onto his right, but couldn’t take the catch.
To add insult𒊎 to injury, the ball ran away to the boundary for a four. Thಞe poor effort made Dhoni shout at Vijay.
The missed-chance definitely cost the Yellow army as Suryakumar remained unbeaten on 71 from 54 balls with 10 fours and saw his team through to a six-wicket victory. The knock helped MI chaꦰse down the target with nine balls to spare.
Dhoni had a word of caution now that CSK has lost four out of th⭕eir last six games but are still 💛in the hunt having finished in the top two.
“It isn’t good to lose games at such times, but it is good that we finished in the top-two, rather then going over the wicket, we now need to go round the wicket, that means the journey takes a longer time. But luckily, we finished in the top two and that gives us a second chance,” he said during the post-match presentation.
