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Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 6-wi🃏ckets at Dubai Internationalꦏ Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
Chasing 173, CSK started pretty well as the opening pair of Shane Watson (14), and Ruturaj Gaikwad scored 44 runs in the powerplay. The duo added a 50-run partnership before Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Watson.
Ruturaj kept on scoring runs from the other end and formed another vital partnership with Ambati Rayudu (38). Ruturaj scored his sওec🐎ond half-century of the ongoing thirteenth season of the cash-rich league.
Both the batsmen stitched together 68-runs for the second wicket before Pat Cummins provided the much-needed breakthrough. The right armer sent Rayudu back to the dugout in the 14th over of CSK’s chase.
In the very next over, Varun picked up his second wicket as he cleaned up CSK skipper MS Dhoni (1).
As if the trouble wasn’t enough, Ruturaj, who was playing extremely well, lost his concentration. He tried to play a paddle but missed out and got clean bowled. The 23-year-old smashed 72 off 53 balls with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes.
It looked like that the game was slipping out of CSK hands; however, the penultimate over bowled by Lockie Ferguson brought back smiles on CSK supporters. The Kiwi pacer ended up conceding 20 runs from the 19th over.
CSK needed 10 runs from the last over, and Ravindra Jadeja with two sixes in last two balls sealed the victory for three-time champions. Jadeja scored a quickfire 31 not out off 11 balls studded with 2 fours and 3 sixes.
Nitish Rana propels KKR to 172/5
Earlier, Nitish Rana played yet another crucial knock for Knight Riders as the opener scored his third half-century of IPL 2020. The southpaw smashed 87 runs off 61 balls studded with 10 fou🐼rs ඣand four humungous sixes.
Apart from Rana, Shubman Gill (26) and Dinesh Karthik (21) also chipped in with valuable contributions to take the score to 172/5 in their allotted 20 overs.
For CSK, Lungi Ngidi bagged two wickets while Mitchell Santner, Jadeja and Karn Sharma picked up one scalp each.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Remember the name , pure display of class! Fantastic shots all around the wicket! Superb batting taking the home along wit🐟h !
— Kris Srikkanth (@KrisSrikkanth)
Well done my brother What incredible con💙tribution. Superbly doꦏne Bapu ! 😍
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Once a Royal, always a Royal. 🙌 |
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals)
A nail-biting finish. finishes off in style🌼 👏👏 win by 6 wickets.ꦗ
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
Well played Jadu👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. “Beware the team with nothing to l♎ose” is the theme of this week in . Well played .
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
Greജat finish! Jadeja has finished so well this year
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
Another team bites the dust. Say goodbye to in thꦰe ��🏽
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93)
WINTAGE FINISH 😍🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
Jaddu ka jawab nahi!
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Wah Kya baat 🌱hai. Well done on stalin performance stallion
— Naman Ojha (@namanojha35)
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Ravi Jadeja h🐻as played a blinde🎉r to chase down 30 runs from the final two overs at 🔥
— ICC (@ICC)
Todi naakhu,fodi nakhu ane bhukko kari naakhu…
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Sir Ravindra Jadeja. Take a bow 🙇
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
